Land Rover is still alive, still owned by India’s Tata Motors, still begging for money from the UK government and still building toweringly expensive SUVs that suck gas like The Detroit Lions, uh, suck. (Despite an endless, unpolluted stream of corporate green initiatives.) Gaydon’s latest top-‘o-the-line, go-anywhere land yacht: the Range Rover 5.0-liter Supercharged. Tata revealed the plutocrat’s rolling throne at the London Motorexpo this morning. US prices have yet to be announced, but Brits will pay £79,995 for the privilege of staying off the country’s green lanes (at the pain of death) and not daring to drive five miles per hour over the speed limit for fear of speed cameras on poles, gantry-mounted elapsed time speed cameras, camera vans and police holding speed cameras [not shown].
All the better to speed you to the service department when the various lights start flashing (or not as the case may be).
(patiently waiting for that motor to show up in the Mustang)
It’s there…it seems like you can see a dozen supercharged Roush Mustangs on eBay just about any day.
Wrong 5.0. This is not part of the modular engine family, has direct injection and some new supercharger.
No way PAG made this motor without Ford’s help. This has to be the Coyote motor everyone’s talking about for the Mustang and Ford trucks.
I love the 2010 Range Rover and can’t wait to see it!
“No way PAG made this motor without Ford’s help. This has to be the Coyote motor everyone’s talking about for the Mustang and Ford trucks.”
This new premium 5.0L engine is designed specifically for Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles not Ford vehicles. Also, Land Rover’s advanced premium CGI (Compact Graphite Iron) Turbo-Diesel V8 (TDV8) was designed specifically for the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport. The new premium 3.0L CGI TDV6 is also designed for Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles. The older 2.7L CGI premium TDV6 is now soley used by French Peugeot cars, who helped design this engine.
If the small Tata is the “Nano” and that term means one billionth, shouldn’t this one be called the Giga?
@Sajeev Mehta :
absolutely not the same motor as any possible canine-themed motors which may or may not exist.
or course PAG developed the motor “with Ford’s help”. they were part of Ford when the engine was developed, so it would have been developed as part of the Ford global powertrain cycle plan. I think most of the development was done in europe, which makes sense given the production location & applications for the motor.
“Gaydon’s latest top-’o-the-line, go-anywhere land yacht”
Solihull if you please! Maurice Wilks would be spinning in his grave…
First they make nano, now this.
Tata is making humanity a favor.
They are producing affordable small economy cars for the lower class while making gigantic SUVs with ineffective brakes that also flip over (and kill the driver) in tight turns for the rich bastards.
Go Tata!