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Range Rover Pick Up
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f you like the luxury offered
by a Range Rover but not the
smell of wet dogs then Startech has just the thing for you. Set
to debut at the Shanghai Auto
Show is the Startech Range Rover
Pick-up.
An arm of the well-known German tuning firm Brabus, Startech
created no less than 100 bodywork components from aluminum, carbon fibre and steel in
order to create the luxurious
pick-up. The plastic lined loading
bin offers a length of 1 100 mm,
with the electrically operated tailgate closed.
Inside the extremely expensive
pick-up has the hallmarks that
Range Rover owners are privy
to, including leather-clad seats
and electronic everything. As if a
Range Rover with a load bin isn’t
already unique, Startech has added a wide-body aero kit and 23inch alloys. Power is still provided by a supercharged 5,0-litre V8
bugatti chiron
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olkswagen want their successor to the Veyron, the
Bugatti Chiron, to do the
0-100 km/h sprint in just two seconds – that’s a half a second quicker
than the Veyron Super Sport WRE.
Scheduled for a 2016 launch, the
Chiron, as it’s rumored to be called,
will use the Veyron’s existing W16
8.0-litre engine reworked to put out
a monumental 1 103 kW, while retaining the Veyron Super Sport’s
torque output of 1 500 N.m. Its top
speed is likely to be in the region of
460km/h should anyone ever get
the chance to try it.
VW are reportedly targeting a fuel
consumption of 20 L/100 km.
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ISSUE #2 Jun - Sept
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Evoque
Convertible
e saw the concept three years ago and now, say insiders, a Range Rover Evoque Convertible will go into
production and debut in Q3 2015.
Unveiled at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, there’s since been
strong interest in the US market, prompting LR to take it into
production phase. Like the concept pictured here, the roof will
be fabric rather than any fancy steel contraption that folds away –
it works too, still managing to keep the Evoque’s sleek coupé-like
lines. There will also be a Roll Over Protection System that will
pop up when needed.
It’s likely the Convertible will coincide with a mid-cycle refresh to
the range – the Evoque is nearly four years old already. The major
change here is likely to see