New full fat?

Ford Explore is more or less the same or may be both evoque and sport is inspired by US Ford line.

http://www.autocarone.com/2011-ford-expl...e-588x408/


Flex: yes looks similar - unlikely LR it comes with tons of standard features.
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Have to say followed one purely by accident yesterday that came out of the bAck of the Solihull LR plant, car was in black and it looked really nice. No camoflauge ready to go, needless to say left me for dead.

(24-07-2012 10:59am)WB Wrote:  Apologies if this has been previously posted - first photo I've seen of an uncamouflaged one. Don't really like what they've done with it at all...

http://www.ovalnews.com/wp-content/uploa...17_l11.jpg

Can't say that does anything for me at all. Think the current version is a lot better looking, though think both are too brick like for my tastes. But if it's what current owners want....

Don't know who invented the term Full Fat as it is a term used across many quarters. My Clio is the standard 182 Clio sport with upgraded 182 "cup" suspension factory fitted. Hence known as a full fat Clio.

Anyone for a full fat coke?

(24-07-2012 11:38pm)ChuckieB Wrote:  Don't know who invented the term Full Fat as it is a term used across many quarters. My Clio is the standard 182 Clio sport with upgraded 182 "cup" suspension factory fitted. Hence known as a full fat Clio.

Anyone for a full fat coke?

I guess it originated from full fat milk? Full Fat Coke, Full Fat Marlboro - it's used all over the place...

I much prefer the image from Topspeed, the camo on the image in Ovalnews does it no favors. The angle of the photo makes the bonnet look a bit too low as well. I wait to see one in the flesh before final judgement

It originated on the Range Rover Sport forums where ignorant folks called the RRS Range Rover Lite ( RRS isn't actually a Range Rover underneath its a Disco3) despite it weighing in at a porky 300kgs more than its bigger brother. From then on the L322 Range Rover was known as the Full Fat. Land Rover dislikes the terms Full Fat and Baby RR , preferring us to call the cars Range Rover and Range Rover Evoque.
I've owned 2 L322 Range Rovers and if you haven't driven one you shouldn't knock them, they are about the best way to travel long haul that there is, even in the lower Vogue spec they are supremely quiet and comfortable and since the suspension upgrade in 2010 when the 4.4ltr TDv8 engine was installed they can even go round corners without falling over! My last one also was able to achieve 35mpg sat at 70 all day in the M6, only a little less than my Evoque gets............ But with 400Nm of torque from 1600rpm it could lift its skirts, hunker down on its rear suspension and scare the living daylights out of many GTis when it was asked to play boy racers. The 5.0ltr S/C version is also no slouch, but rather addicted to 4*. 0-62 in 6.5 secs in a 2.5 ton brick is a sight to behold!

(24-07-2012 11:20am)ED209 Wrote:  Why call it full fat? Why not just call it a range rover?

For some reason the term full fat makes me irrationally angry lol

could not agree more!!!

(25-07-2012 04:04pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  It originated on the Range Rover Sport forums where ignorant folks called the RRS Range Rover Lite ( RRS isn't actually a Range Rover underneath its a Disco3) despite it weighing in at a porky 300kgs more than its bigger brother. From then on the L322 Range Rover was known as the Full Fat. Land Rover dislikes the terms Full Fat and Baby RR , preferring us to call the cars Range Rover and Range Rover Evoque.
I've owned 2 L322 Range Rovers and if you haven't driven one you shouldn't knock them, they are about the best way to travel long haul that there is, even in the lower Vogue spec they are supremely quiet and comfortable and since the suspension upgrade in 2010 when the 4.4ltr TDv8 engine was installed they can even go round corners without falling over! My last one also was able to achieve 35mpg sat at 70 all day in the M6, only a little less than my Evoque gets............ But with 400Nm of torque from 1600rpm it could lift its skirts, hunker down on its rear suspension and scare the living daylights out of many GTis when it was asked to play boy racers. The 5.0ltr S/C version is also no slouch, but rather addicted to 4*. 0-62 in 6.5 secs in a 2.5 ton brick is a sight to behold!

Thanks Tim, I was one of those ignorant ones....never knew the RRS was based on the Disco 3

Yes. the FFRR is the real deal and the nickname may be linked to the full-fat milk which is so much better than its watered down semi-skimmed deriviatives.

I live close to the on-road test route LR use - Gaydon, Stratford, A46 to Evesham, A44 to Moreton in Marsh, A429 Fosseway to the M40 and back to Gaydon - and the new car is now a familiar sight - saw two this morning, minimal disguise, thought it looked great.

As for the notion that the newer car is inspired by the Ford Explorer, I think it's more likely that as Ford used to own LR, they had early sight of the new car and the Ford Explorer is intended to be a down-market, poorly built, pale imitation of The Real Thing.