October 2013 - 3rd Edition
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Motors
FROM SOLIHULL
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TO MUMBAI Land Rover completes world’s first hybrid expedition along Silk Trail
• Three Range Rover Diesel Hybrid prototypes complete 10,472 miles along the Silk Trail from Solihull, SEE home of Land Rover, to PAGE Mumbai, home of Jaguar Land Rover’s owners, TATA • Journey covered 53 days, 13 countries and two continents putting the Range Rover Hybrid prototypes through their final extreme engineering sign-off test • Tested to the limits in temperatures from -10 degrees to 43 degrees Celsius at altitudes of 5,500 metres and over every type of terrain • First foreign-registered cars to drive China’s Xinjiang-Tibet highway • Land Rover’s first ever production hybrid to go on sale in first quarter 2014 (selected markets only)
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