Range Rover: 40 Years of the 4x4 icon

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The Range Rover started out as a more comfortable Land Rover with better road manners than its stable-mate, but customer demand soon turned it into something else altogther. Over the years, the brand has become an icon, synonymous with luxury and prestige, and yet never losing the essentially practical side of its nature. This book looks at all three generations of Range Rover, and also at its companion model, the hugely successful Range Rover Sport. The whole Range Rover story is explored in this most wide-ranging of books about the brand. Contents include: -The development stories -The production models -The Range Rovers that we never saw -Building Range Rovers through the years -Special conversions -Custom and high-performance derivatives AUTHOR James Taylor is a distinguished motoring historian with more than fifty books to his credit. He also writes for specialist magazines both in Britain and overseas, covering the whole motoring spectrum from classics to current models. His specialist subject might be regarded as Rover, but he has contributed several titles to the Crowood AutoClassic series on subjects as diverse as Land Rovers and BMWs. SALES POINTS .Covers the whole story of all three generations of Range Rover, including their design and development stages .Customer demand turned the Range Rover into a luxury estate car and first rate off-roader a winner all round .A must-have for all owners and admirers of the iconic Range-Rover .Contains full specifications and production changes with over 300 colour photos .James Taylor has been writing about motoring history for the past forty years and is author of eighty books ILLUSTRATIONS 300 colour photos *

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James Taylor has been researching and writing about motoring history since the late 1970s. He has written widely in the motoring press in the UK and abroad, and is author more than eighty books, many of them for Crowood. He is known and respected for the detailed research that goes into his writing. The products of the Rover Company and its descendants have always been his first love and his major specialization, and he was fonding editor of Land Rover Enthusiast magazine.