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As work is finalized on the next generation Range Rover, Autocar reports a crucial decision has been made to adapt the aluminum body structure of the Jaguar XJ in a bid to reduce the SUV's weight and improve its handling.

Land Rover expects the change to shave between 300-400kg (650-900 lbs) of the total weight of the next Range Rover. The move to aluminum has the added benefit of reducing emissions, improving fuel economy and improving structural rigidity. It also removes the weak points where alloys have been welded with steel since the Rover's body will be made entirely out of aluminum.

The new Rover will also feature an improved V8 engine featuring direct injection with a supercharged variant available. The diesel line-up will also see changes and there is the possibility for a hybrid offering.

It's all said and done minus the go ahead from Dearborn which is shortly. Expect this new all aluminum Range Rover to be available for the 2012 model year.

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Monster

About time, 300kg to 400kg is massive... as massive as 2 average sized American Range Rover buyer.

Merc1

All of this sound very good, hopefully Jaguar and Rover can help each other.

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Imhotep Evil

More like 3, unless the average RR owners are sumo wreslers.

zetableh

Um... 2.2 lbs to the kilo? I really think it's more than three.

And for the record, monster, can we lay off the cheap shots on American's weights? Not that I give a flying Philadelphia about weight, but I hate the generalizations. I'm an American and I weigh a buck-and-a-quarter, but to called fat is insulting.

I don't say every Australian is a dumb, slow, fat drunk, now do I?

Bruce

Zetableh is right. We should not generalize or use stereotypes to describe a culture/origin, etc.

Please stay away from comments as such in the future.

Thanks

Osnabrueck

As an American I have no problem admitting that we're a nation of fat slobs who are at the same time obsessed with dieting and weight loss.

It's crazy. When I left Germany I was a size 32 and weighed 175lbs. Now that I've been living in LA for a year and a half I've bloated up to a husky size 34 and weigh 200lbs. Make no mistake, this county consipres to transform you into a fat-ass.

Bruce

You are entilted to your opinion and while you might not take any offense to any of the comments above, others might.

I'll leave it at that and close the thread.

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