To be fair I had just been saying I had recently changed my wifes car not wanting anything against my FL2 and that is when he pounced with the offer of the Jag.

Jag - 17 plate and screen price was 69K and he said it was traded in against a Ewock. Maybe its one expensive Jag to avoid ! Black and swirls in paint already apparent from rough washing. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Parkers review

http://www.parkers.co.uk/land-rover/range-...rformance/ FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Land Rover press release for PHEV and Mild Hybrid RR Velar.

Also in-line 6 engine, and update for in car electronics. (I have read reports that the post 2018 in car electronic (with second central screen) were responsible for lots of the RRS, Velar, warranty problems)

https://media.landrover.com/en-gb/news/202...fotainment

It should be good news about the engines as in-line 6 engines are inherently smooth. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 79k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

I have noticed LR screening TV ads for the New Hybrid Velar.

this new Velar 'doubles' their previous hybrid to staggering 34mls on a charge !!

well done

Is the Velar actually a big seller for LR? There seem to be very few on the road, it seems to be a model designed for a niche in the market that I'm not sure really exists?
High end Evoque or low end RRS would fulfil its role. Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

bob thats true, until the Evoque becomes obsolete ?

Velar, a beautiful car, my son has a D300 DYNAMIC R HSE 22" wheels that in the recent snow up here it towed UPHILL a 3.5tonne Renault automatic van that was in neutral. Has towed a 26ft caravan and a 3tonne digger on a 14x7 flatbed. Fabulous car. He reckons the D180 Velar is way underpowered for a big car but Landrover have put loads of them out as a cheaper way to get people into the model. With the right spec a Velar is the best looking car in the JLR line up, not just another jacked up jelly mould with the pretence of being a 4x4.

Has towed a 26ft caravan and a 3tonne digger on a 14x7 flatbed.

So a tad overloaded then

Yeh, well overloaded no doubt. I had two complete tracks and chains off a 32 tonner with wide tracks put onto the trailer when I had the disco 3. I thought they must be way heavier than I should be towing but the guy that loaded them said they would only be about 2.5 tonne the pair . Typical Landrover can tow anything and the Disco3 was very stable along the motorway but I knew the weight was there by the power needed. At the destination a forky with 30cwt capacity couldn't lift one and the guy had to get the larger one. He reckoned they were over 2 tonnes each! Pus the weight of a 14x7 foot flat bed trailer with sideboards and underneath ramps makes it ?? how much weight?
Nothing tows as safely as a landrover can.

LR needs the velar to compete with bitter rivals jaguar and their F-pace

, wait hang on? At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

I parked next to some sort of Range Rover yesterday but I couldn't tell if it was a Velar, RR sport or whatever. Total JLR brand and model confusion. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Bobupndown wrote:

Is the Velar actually a big seller for LR? There seem to be very few on the road, it seems to be a model designed for a niche in the market that I'm not sure really exists?
High end Evoque or low end RRS would fulfil its role.

FL2 Sales
Year Sales
2009 37,909
2010 54,833
2011 51,954
2012 48,332
2013 57,691
2014 56,622
2015 3,278
Total 310,619

(Taken from Wiki)


so Velar has sold over 60k vehicles ????






well, that surprised me

Of course, with China and US being the big markets for JLR, we probably can no longer gauge model preferences by our own local roads. 2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel