The LR3 is receiving a mild refreshening; a mild facelift if you will. Surely you noticed the new lights, both front and rear of course, and the fact that the car seems to have grown more uniform coloring with the loss of its black plastic body cladding and wheel arches.
It has in fact, undergone the mildest of changes, and though the surgeons of Hollywood would do well to practice such restraint, one can’t help but wonder if the people at Land Rover have gone far enough.
In a world dominated by “soft-roaders” Land Rover should go forth and embellish it off road heritage even more. Paint it with truck bed liner and add mud splatter effect or something; at the very least make a snorkel standard. Granted that may be too much, but at the very least, they would’ve been changes worth noticing. And not the shift towards bland-ing into the crowd these changes seem to represent.
Our Take? More of the same, even under new ownership.
via Motor Authority
I have one of these and am in total lust with it. Im looking into getting a good quality paint job. Does anybody know how much it would cost to get a full Matte Black paint job on an LR3?
It is a shame. I was hoping Tata would really grab the bull by the horns and do some fresh stuff with the brand.
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David Allen Parizek Jr
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Here’s the rub. Dealers are sitting on 1100 2008 LR3 IN STOCK as of 1/11/09 in the US. This does not include at least that many built after October 2008 according to an insider which are sitting at ports due to excessive overhang on dealer floors. Call any Landrover dealer, $15k off MSRP is the starting point on the 08′s and some will quote even further discounts. What’s best is this. Ask when the refreshed 09′ will be avail. They can’t tell you. It’s going to be months at least. And some paint and other minor repackaging is going to make these move at or near MSRP? I don’t think so.