1970 Range Rover Classic

1970 Range Rover Classic

We go back to the year 1970! The year that the Boeing 747 into service, the first Dutch club Feyenoord for club teams wins the World Cup and the World Trade Center in New York reached its peak. 1970 was also the birth year of the Range Rover Classic.
Land Rover's image among the general public in recent years in the corner of the expensive and luxurious cars arrived. The roots of the manufacturer, however, are not in the PC but in the mud of the British countryside. Although current models do not deny their background, Land Rover has recently launched the Evoque show to go with the times and the tight asphalt increasingly preferred over unstable surfaces. The current Range Rover may be the showpiece of his many professional footballers; the first model was more modest in scope.

Land Rover Series
Land Rover has started as project Rover, the now-defunct British manufacturer of passenger cars. After the American Willys Jeep had proved its worth during the Second World War the British would like to have a counterpart of this idea designs. The result was the Land Rover Series I, II and III, all of whom excelled in simple and toughness. Suitable for the toughest terrain, but also as "bare" drives may be equipped at the moment more than 60% of these cars.

100 inch SUV
the idea for a larger version of this off-road development dates back to 1951 when experiments with the Road Rover, based on the Rover P4. The project eventually disappeared in 1958, unused in the Rover archives. Gordon Bash ford, responsible for the Road Rover got in 1966 a new opportunity for a large off-road to create after it was found that the large SUV was booming in the United States. After four years of hard work on what the '100-inch Station Wagon program "was called, was presented in 1970 the Range Rover.
                               
Versatile
In its marketing slogans was the Range Rover touted as "A car for every occasion. These were no idle be because soon found the large, triangular area in the car better than its smaller brother, Series III. This was partly due to the completely new suspension that high ground clearance, but also offered much room left in the suspension. In addition, the Range Rover proved to be very comfortable on the road and, thanks to its 3.5-liter V8, also remarkably fast. Although a top speed of 160 km / h and a 0-100 time of 15 seconds may not seem impressive for his size, he was one of the fastest cars on the road. That the main focus however on the rugged terrain was demonstrated by the Paris-Dakar results of 1979 and 1981, where the Range Rover proudly emblazoned on top.

Design
The design is simply called angular look and seem to have been more work than the engineers of a design team. As with the first Land Rovers went for the form and function there are no frivolous reflected in the design. The men and women of the development team went there also appears to have assumed that the Range Rover is not going to be used by families for eleven years; the car is only sold in three-door version. Only in 1981 launched a five-door Land Rover, which was so successful that the three-door in the UK market disappeared. Despite its practical impact was the design completely in step with the times, because in the beginning of the seventies was for years a Range Rover to admire in the French Louver Museum as' exemplary industrial design.

Spartan
the interior was as Spartan as the exterior. Is the inside of the modern Range Rover better equipped than many living room, his grandfather had the luxury set with a lot less. The chairs were covered with vinyl, the dashboard was full of plastic and everything was made so that a hose could be hosed. Extras like power steering, upholstered chairs and wooden finish came later as an option.

Development
During the 26-year life of the Range Rover Classic has repeatedly tinkered with the look and subcutaneous there are several changes. From 1979 tried the Range Rover with a diesel engine to rest but the aluminum engine blocks were not sufficient for use as diesel engine to serve. The gasoline engine was enlarged several times and eventually in 1992, 4.2-liter measure. A diesel there was ultimately be in the form of a blown 2.5 liter copy.

Classic
The first generation Range Rover was on his departure in 1996 to Classic baptized and has made a major contribution to the growth and viability of Land Rover. The proceeds of the Range Rover Classic, the development of the Defender (1983) and Discovery (1989) made possible and is the former Defender that we as a spiritual successor to the Range Rover Classic to be an indication. The Range Rover name may now great successes, there should not be forgotten that it all beg