First drive: Range Rover TDV8
As this year is Range Rover's 40th Anniversary, we decided to compare the very latest 4.4 litre diesel with one of the originals – in this case a 3.5 litre Vogue EFI from 1989.
Putting the two side-by-side, you immediately see how sympathetic BMW was when it came to designing the Mark 3 Range Rover (yes it was only eight years back, but that was two owners ago, before Ford and Tata bought Land Rover). Indeed BMW was positively deferential towards the Mark One, taking all its styling cues and gently updating them for the 21st century: the twin horizontal creases down the body sides, the vertical rear lights, the overall proportions.
