SPIED: Range Rover's Flagship Gets Streeeetched For The Chinese Market

If there's one all-new car I've seen more than all the others, I have to say it would easily be the all-new Range Rover. Though it costs an arm and a leg, people are snapping them up like they're going out of style.

The phrase "selling like hot cakes" was invented for a product like this.

But if the standard Range Rover wasn't spacious enough for you there's good news on the horizon. Range Rover's product people must have figured there would be a need for a long-wheelbase Rover. Considering it already does the same thing, essentially, with the Jaguar XJ it seems to make sense.

In addition, it's almost a given that any luxury product bound to succeed in China requires a long-wheelbase variant in the Far East.

Here are some of the first spy shots thanks to an Autocar reader based in the U.K.

Taken by Autocar reader Ian Bushell on a British motorway, this prototype clearly has a longer third side window and longer rear overhang. It also appears to have a longer rear door.

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Dexter1 - 7/3/2013 12:40:06 AM

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With the average height of a Chinese male being 5' 8" and 5'4" for a Chinese female, I'm not sure why a stretched version of the new Range Rover would be so important to that market.

pepito66 - 7/3/2013 9:18:38 AM

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Yes it is true ,same thing with long version of BMW to Chinese market , for me is like an eccentricity , if you need a bigger car the normal thing to do is get a 5 or 7 series instead the 3 series if you like it , is just an example , or probably they try to pay less " " and get more according with the model of the car. This is not apply for the top of the line R Rover , this one in expensive in anyway , lol.

hdbu - 7/3/2013 3:03:51 PM

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The target audience are those with drivers therefore, a bigger back seat is favorable.

TauronB2G - 7/3/2013 12:47:07 PM

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Why is it just for the Chinese market? Rovers have been known for lack of real legroom. From the introduction I read that they were planning a long wheelbase version for all markets.
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dayday - 7/4/2013 2:11:49 AM

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It's not about what Chinese need, it's about what they like.