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Price of Land Rovers in Turkey

I always mention about the car taxes in Turkey and how expensive to own a car. However, I never provided the price of a car in my blog, until now!

You can find the price of Land Rovers and Range Rovers below. These prices do not include the optional equipments and downloaded directly from the official distributor. If you are complaining about the car prices, just check these!

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Range Rover Terrain Response vs. Mercedes ML On&Off Road Package

On 1997, Mercedes revealed its new model ML. It was the first SUV vehicle on market. At that time, ML was one of the best-looking vehicle in Mercedes range, but it wasn’t built that well and not well equipped either. All these adverse conditions did not change my perspective to ML.

On 2005, Mercedes revealed the new ML with proper quality and with Mercedes class technological gadgets. And this time, vehicle was not looking that nice! It was too conservative! And I never really liked it. Actually I don’t have much to say about the this version.

A couple of weeks ago, Mercedes revealed the ML. This time, it looks wonderful from the front and nothing special from the rear end. Anyway, this contradicting design concept is not my main issue. Since 1997 ML always offered technologies, which can be found in other Mercedes vehicles. This time, they did something different and revealed an off road technology. Now you can move a knob and choose appropriate road condition. And vehicle makes necessary changes for that particular road condition, actually it is designed for off road conditions. Interestingly, Mercedes did not name this technology like Off Road Matic or Off Road Plus! Actually they named this system as On&Off Road Package. And as usual this is an optional feature.

This technology is not something new in SUV Market. Land Rover offers this technology since 2004, branded as Terrain Response and it is really cleaver. The logic is the same with Mercedes, you choose the appropriate terrain and vehicle does the rest. I found it really creative and useful. Anyone without any knowledge of off road driving can deal with any adverse condition. And unlike Mercedes, this is standard in whole Land Rover and Range Rover range.

Unfortunately, Mercedes saved some cash while placing this knob. Terrain Response knob or buttons in Land Rovers are really nicely designed and they look amazing. The plastic and the metal used in a good harmony to avoid any cheap feeling. But Mercedes ignored this fact a little bit. As you can see from the photos, it is all covered by plastic and there are only few metal parts. The whole panel is plastic and it does not look expensive. As the new ML will be expensive, I was expecting a much better quality for this part of the console. They did a great job with the leather and wood but they forgot the knob!!

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Reliability of Range Rover Evoque

For very long time, Das Mercedes releases videos of their state of art technology of reliability. I guess, they have been producing these videos for last four hundred years. How Das Mercedes is well made, how it is well checked, how the competitors cannot keep up with them. Actually, you suppose to emerge the last idea from the videos, they never mention it :)
I cannot deny the reliability of Das Mercedes autos expect the years from 1997 to 2004. Those years, the robots, which were supposed to test the reliability of the cars were on long holiday. You can see this on first generation M Class, E Class during (2002-2004) and some other models also. Hopefully, they spend nearly one billion euro to increase their quality. And they did it!
Meantime, the competitors close the gap between Das Mercedes. Fifteen years ago, you can see the reliability and quality gap between Das Mercedes and the others, but now the gap is quite close! And for some particular brands, there is no gap with Das Mercedes. How I know? Land Rover recently revealed a reliability and quality testing stage of the new Range Rover Evoque. In old days, we only see this type of videos with Mercedes cars but now we see Land Rover vehicles! As we can see, Land Rover is going to reveal more reliable vehicles over the years, starting with the Evoque. Please don’t manipulate this sentence and assume that, “current vehicle are not reliable and after this video, they will be reliable”. Of course not! This is just a short summary of what Land Rover has done to improve their quality and reliability for last years.
From my internship experiences from passenger vehicle sales and aftersales departments, some customers cannot be satisfied ever, whatever technology you use!

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Car of the Day # 16 Range Rove Evoque Frame

Unfortunately, this week’s car does not have the capability to move :) It is made by frames!

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Bentley Continental SUV

During last one decade, we couldn’t ignore two things. SUVs and Google! They suddenly take a part in our lives whilst we are not aware of their existence. Google started as a basic search engine web site with a plain design. As the years have passed, they developed more and more and more. Finally, end up with taking your home’s photo and publishing on Google Earth.
SUVs are the same, it started with a plain design of Mercedes M-Class and chased by Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park! After this traumatic event, SUVs started to chase us in everywhere. Nearly, each manufacturer thought about an SUV model inside their model range. “It would not be a bad idea to offer an SUV, everyone likes it”. Even the Dacia’s ultra-cheap SUV received a respectful demand from all around the world. I am not saying the demand to BMW X Series, Mercedes ML, Range Rover, Porsche Cayenne, Audi Q7 and the others.
As the SUV became so addicted to automotive industry and impossible to take out from the market. Some manufacturers started to think about their own interpretation of SUV. I mean the Bentley Motors. If you don’t know let me tell you, Bentley is owned by Volkswagen and Continental family shares many parts with VW Phaëton. Anyway, Bentley received unexpected demand around the world since it was reveal on 2004. It was offering everything; powerful engine, luxury, four-wheel drive, exquisite design. But, it is not an SUV, that’s the minor problem. People want to have a luxury SUV not a four-wheel passenger car.
If you want to buy a luxury SUV, the alternative is extremely clear; Range Rover. That’s the best luxury SUV on planet. Unfortunately, rest of the competitors are imitating Range Rover’ style but it is not working that well. Ask anyone for the ultimate luxury SUV, they will say Range Rover. From this basic scientific research, we can assume that; there is a great market for luxury SUVs.
Let’s go back to Bentley HQ; most probably they received some reports from Germany for a potential SUV model. It will be explaining how great it would be to have SUV under the Bentley brand and how we can make money from this. Honestly, this is totally right. People would definitely buy a Bentley Continental SUV. Because, it is an SUV and it is a Bentley!
So, the problem is production; and it is easy also. Audi Q7 has meaningless big and long chassis for and Audi but it would be a great match for Bentley. Just change the exterior design and use the chassis. The interior will be same with Continental FlyingSpur, so there is nothing to worry. The drive train would be the same with Q7 but they should have low range gearbox (take from VW Touareg) and a better off road capability than the Q7. It will be expensive and try to compete with Range Rover. Therefore, it should offer state of art off road capabilities. And customer will be expecting to see something similar to Range Rover, even though they would never ever use on off road.
Basically, in next five year I am expecting to see a Bentley Continental SUV based Audi Q7 chassis, using VW Touareg’s off road gearbox and interior from FlyingSpur. They only need to design exterior and do the necessary long term testing, which they would be doing at the moment. There were some rumours about this and Bentley denied the SUV. Let’s make a flash back to year 2001, Porsche mentioned, “we will never use a diesel engine” but they are using now. So, it won’t be a surprise to see one.

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Motor Expo, Canary Wharf, London

If you did not have time to visit Motor Expo this year, here you have the chance to see all the vehicles!

Mercedes New SLK
Mercedes New C Coupe
Mercedes SLS AMG
Mercedes Actros
Mercedes CLS 63 AMG
Range Rover Evoque
Range Rover
Range Rover Sport
Land Rover Discovery
Tesla
Nissan Leaf
Lexus LFA
Jaguar XJ
Jaguar XF
Jaguar XFR
Jaguar XK
Jaguar XKR-S
Bentley Continental GT
Bentley Continental GTC Ice Record
Bentley Continental GT Flying Spur
BMW M3 GTS
BMW 6 Series Cabrio
Mini Countryman

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Range Rover Evoque Live: Birmingham NEC

Cars and visual arts, I am not an expert on visual art but I can imagine these are two different elements. One of them a metal designed to be mobilize people and visual arts are harmony of different forms of art.
The Range Rover Evoque is the new generation Land Rover product family and something totally new to this brand. I can see the same similarity, Land Rover offers SUV with relatively big size, focused on off roading capabilities and practicality. And Evoque is something totally different; a new design concept, relatively smaller than Discovery 4, designed to cope with adverse road conditions in city life. Evoque is a domesticated Land Rover for contemporary city life. From an objective point of view, Land Rover managed to achieve it very well.
Honestly, I didn’t attend many car events. However, I know how they are! Most of them take place in hotels with some music and colourful lights. There might be several models of the car and some brochures and if you are lucky, they might give you some free things. Even though I know this ugly truth about these events, I always try to attend any event to see the car.
Couple of months ago I saw the Range Rover Evoque show and excited to attend. The information was very brief; music and live dance show! I was not expecting to see something extra ordinary. There is going to be several Evoques, a short dance show and that’s all.
It was one of the most creative shows I have ever seen. It would be unfair to compare with car show. If I compare with Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, that’s would be a better benchmark. It was totally amazing, the composition of the show and its engagement with the Evoque is a state of art.
Each Evoque model had its own story during the show; Pure, Dynamic and Prestige. Show starts with Pure, models catwalk with white colour dress. Then Dynamic, ambient colour turn into red and shows two dancers appear on stage. It is definitely narrating the character of Dynamic model, you can feel the stiffness of the and suspension and aggressive driving characters by the figures. And finally, Prestige! People who are planning to buy Prestige model would definitely love the ballet show. This part of the show narrates what you expect from the Prestige model, refinement and comfort.
One of the best bit was the horizontal led lights, which represent the day lights of the Evoque. Integration of engine sound with dance and music is something totally amazing. Engine noise was turned into engine sound, the annoying mechanical knockings became the part of the dance and the music. It is really hard to explain the show through words, you have to see with your own eyes. And feel this exquisite experience.
This show is a pure creativity and the people who worked in this project made a great job. I am sure that, in future this show will be remembered as a remarkable campaign in automotive industry.
Finally, the music played during the show was also magnificent. Started with Hans Zimmer – Time (Inception sound track) and finished with David Guetta! You can find the audio tracks below and a sneak preview of the show.
For Manchester show
http://evoquelive.landrover.co.uk

Music from the show; (You can download them from iTunes links.)

Hans Zimmer Time (Inception)
Sweet Disposition The Temper Trap
Xenia Beliayeva Satellite
Burial & Four Tet Moth
Taio Cruz feat Kylie Minogue Higher
David Guetta Feat Rowland When Love Takes Over
Kings of Leon The End
The Verve Bitter Symphony



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Tomorrow’s Post: Evoque Live Birmingham

I usually don’t post articles like this. However, this time I want to make people curios!

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Best outfit in Pulse of the City: Evoque

For last one decade SUV vehicles became more city friendly and designed better, more efficient, more comfortable, less capable of off roading; even though we have some cases like Lincoln Navigator and Chevrolet Suburban XXXL. Especially Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Land Rover have respectful contribution to this.

Last year, Land Rover introduced the Range Rover Evoque. One of the best looking small SUVs on market. Actually, it is better looking than its big brothers! Since Land Rover revealed the Evoque, I always noticed high quality photographs pictured the diversifying design details of Evoque. From each angle, Evoque looks magnificent. However, there are some expectations each photo is not under the control of Land Rover and I found something really shocking!

The photo, which you can see below, is from Pulse of the City event in US and many celebrities were invited. As usual, popular culture celebrities dress up to impress other people. Most of the photos from the event is what you expect, nice looking people with designer brands, etc…

Unfortunately, some of them interpret the impression word in a very different way. From that point of view, attending an event means, you can wear whatever you want or don’t bother to change your outfit just attend with the same clothes you wear at home! Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter, Cee Lo Green did the same, it is crystal clear that he even did not even bother to change his slippers with shoes and came to the event with his comfortable home clothes.

I think this is the most impressive contemporary Evoque photo!

 

 

 

 

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Very Green Range Rover

I know that some people really don’t like SUV, they can say lots of reason to express their hate towards these vehicles. I am not going to argue with those arguments. However Range Rover Evoque has something really creative :)

Range Rover’s new model Evoque, small Range Rover, offer very low levels of CO2 for an SUV vehicle. But they didn’t stop here! Now they are offering something really green. They are not offering any very special green colour, they are offering bike carrier for roof.

You are buying Range Rover Evoque, one of the smallest SUV on market to fit anywhere in a city and you decide to ride bike. However there is a problem, with your luxury clothes you may not wish to take the bike down from the roof. Honestly, I have no idea how you can lift a bike on a roof on of an SUV. That person has to be something similar to Hercules and those guys usual do not fit to small SUVs.

If you wish to be green and be more green, buy Evoque with roof bike carrier!

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