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Article: Range Rover is a perfect fit for the sensible-elegance crowd.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2006
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Byline: Steven Cole Smith
Land Rover sold its premium model, the Range Rover, overseas for 17 years before bringing it to the United States in early 1987. When it arrived, it debuted to a moderately confused audience: Who needs a $36,450 British sport utility vehicle?
Answer: No one, really. But gradually, the Range Rover began winning over the California crowd, and when California says a vehicle is cool, who are we to argue?
There's an argument to be made that the Range Rover's quotient of cool peaked with the 1991 Robert Altman film "The Player," in which Tim Robbins played a chilly film executive who drove a Range Rover with a fax machine in ...