Here she is...pics of the new RR

[rainmaker]

It's a late 97 Range Rover 4.6 HSE Vitesse ("Tonka"). Got her a couple of weeks ago. I think the yellow piping in the seats is just awesome! I've already replaced the wheels with the newer style wheels.

I know it's not a hot rod but does the job as a daily driver real well! Just sold my truck recently (a 97 Expedition, "Orca") so I needed another daily driver.

I've racked up close to 2000 mi. on the 500E in the close to 1 year I've owned her. I want to keep it at that for years to come. She's now got 68K km (42.5K mi.) and is now relegated to weekend use. On the other hand, I've put on just about 1300 mi. on the Range in just 3 weeks...which included a couple of out of town trips.

The Range Rover was in such pristine condition and was on some sort of a firesale. The owner wanted $10K less than market for a quick sale. Low miles (7,300 when I got it) was primarily due to the owner getting stares because of the color. Works for me! Was in the right place at the right time, I guess...

All she needs is:

- A new exhaust
- New set of front airsprings
- will probably wrap the headliner and pillars in alcantara (the autobiography editions offered them (similar to MB's designo editions)...just have to find the right color to match). The RRs are known to have their headliners sag in tropical weather so no sense in getting OEM ones. There's this local company owned and run by this German guy who does all local content interiors for MBs and BMWs as well as other makes.
- will probably add an RPI Engineering chip sooner or later.
- will get her Konis on all 4 corners when the time comes to replace the shocks.

Without further ado, here she is...






Cheers!