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campaj1



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Clarkson's abrupt change of tune...

Whilst his sunday times review of the L405 was predominantly positive, in a recent column in the subscribers edition of Topgear magazine clarkson appears to attack the styling and image of the L405. This seems odd, no? Anyone else seen these articles?
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maybe i shouldn't take him too seriously as a motoring journalist...

http://www.driving.co.uk/clarkson/land-rover/range-rover/6579∑

on a separate note anybody taken delivery yet? Smile
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Reads OK to me in all honesty. Clarkson is a die-hard Range Rover fan and a lot of his comments of late seem to have been based on a fear that Land Rover would screw up the RR by basing it all on Footballers tasteless Cheshire bling. He acknowledges in this article that they have not done this.

Yes, I tend to agree that some of the styling is a bit wacky - I also agree about the fins now being very obviously decorative. But I don't think he's picking holes in it overall.

However, as for taking Clarkson seriously as a journalist? Ern, Nah. Wink
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The link is the Times article, not the Top Gear column. He's in the business of entertainment, not journalism.
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summary of the TG one: the paint choices, styling and gadgets are all too chintzy, so none of his friends who shoot and have RRs like it, therefore the rest of the landed gentry won't buy it, therefore the image of Range Rover will corrode as it is built on people following a countryside class idyll therefore people will buy different 4x4s.
So kinda what the Silver Shadow did for Rolls-Royce I guess...
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So basically repeating what has already been said here and elsewhere ...
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yeah hes just jumping from bandwagon to bandwagon Whistle
Looking forward to the telly review nonetheless though
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Trommel wrote:
The link is the Times article, not the Top Gear column. He's in the business of entertainment, not journalism.


That may be the case but I have read many of books compilations of his Times articles and laughed my socks off!
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its just a bit of fun... happens to be about cars though!
plus he can sometimes look at things that normal car journos overlook
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The 'fins' have always been decorative ..... Land Rover Addict
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DMRR wrote:
The 'fins' have always been decorative .....


Hot air certainly comes out of them, and the factory vents have mesh in the valleys of the louvres (although I know the holes aren't open directly into the engine bay).
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i heard that the air intake was in them for L322? might be wrong...
either way they werent so f Censored ing massive...
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fins on the 405 are on the doors so are purely decorative... There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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Well on all the ones I've owned the air intakes are forward of the engine, certainly not on the side where there is *zero* chance of getting a decent intake with it whizzing past at 70mph Wink

Secondly, there's no requirement for venting the heat from there ... it wouldn't work as heat rises and they aren't at the top......just have a think about it Whistle Land Rover Addict
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the man speaks the truth Wink
the L322 just about got away with those gills though, as they were small enough.
The size has gone up by at least a factor of two...
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DMRR wrote:
Secondly, there's no requirement for venting the heat from there ... it wouldn't work as heat rises and they aren't at the top......just have a think about it Whistle


Why go to the effort of engineering front wing pressings with big square vent holes, and vents which actually are vents, when you could simply stick a bit of solid plastic over the panel as per the L405?

I think your "heat rises and they aren't at the top" analysis may need more thought ...
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