2026? When does the new year model start to appear?
About to order a 350 AB but not in any hurry
Any idea yet of model upgrades?

I think it’s from July onwards. Usually they remove things from the standard equipment every year so it’s more likely 2026 downgrades

Has anyone heard anything yet on the grapevine about a formal launch date for the EV FFRR (beyond sometime towards the end of this year)? The trade mags are all zero-ing in a weight of around 2500kg and a range around, or maybe even exceeding, 400 miles. If it tips over 400 miles, I might actually order an EV instead of another Phev!

Ocean53 wrote:

2026? When does the new year model start to appear?
About to order a 350 AB but not in any hurry
Any idea yet of model upgrades?

West London FFRR wrote:

Has anyone heard anything yet on the grapevine about a formal launch date for the EV FFRR (beyond sometime towards the end of this year)? The trade mags are all zero-ing in a weight of around 2500kg and a range around, or maybe even exceeding, 400 miles. If it tips over 400 miles, I might actually order an EV instead of another Phev!

Woolstone Green would be nice.

Still no info on RR 2026?
Loads of stuff for Velar
Anyone?

Only thing I have seen is the new 2026 L460 Range Rover SV Black, which has a whole host of electronic gizmos that are bound to fail.

It apparently has an updated signature sound system with new sensory seats, Haptic feedback in the floor and a wellness programme, all linked to your radio, handy when listening to the shipping forecast I am sure, apparently run by AI, so that's definitely bound to go wrong...... After they have told the chinese everything about you and where you have been or are going or saying!!!

Oh, don't forget, it will have recycled tyres.

Maybe it's me, I am sure this stuff appeals to the younger generation, but I don't know many 20 years olds who can afford £180k+ on a car.

Me thinks they are loosing sight of there actual market, I think they need to remember us slightly grey haired old gits are the ones who can actually afford this stuff, maybe I am just old and grumpy and have lost sight of reality....

I almost have a massive accident everytime I try and adjust the heater so who knows what will happen with this kind of stuff. I was hoping they might start putting buttons back in the car but no chance.

I have a feeling a haptic floor linked to my radio, is definitely going to make me need a wee a lot more often. Obviously they haven't seen my music collection either, not sure it would benefit from such things!!!





I would love to know who they go to for product feedback.

DrF

The 26MY has new seat style too, not keen

Also new SV wheels, and a limited edition model

I was so bemused by the lack of engineering innovation or any apparent automotive flair from JLR that I double-checked with my London dealer that the L460 model version currently featured on the configurator is, indeed, the MY26 iteration. He confirmed that it is and that there have been practically no substantive changes to non-SV Range Rovers for the MY26 model year.

It's true the price list hasn't gone up, but it hasn't gone down either. Nor has the list of standard equipment been enhanced or updated, which, in the depths of a cost of living crisis which affects us all (fuelled by an incompetent and failing government), and when the Company is facing rapidly softening residuals across the range, seems a bit surprising. It risks leaving JLR looking like they're doubling down on margin protection at the expense of their most loyal and high spending customers.

Am I the only customer who'd like to see JLR modernise their online car configurator tool so that it can produce detailed exterior and interior 3D model simulations that can rotate 360-degrees on their axis, so you get a proper and complete visualisation of what you're contemplating purchasing? Many other luxury OEMs manage to do it with their online configurators, so why can't JLR?

Finally, a minor -- well, actually, major -- gripe from this particular owner: you can have a spare wheel with a SE or HSE model; but you still can't specify one on an Autobiography. I wouldn't mind but I've twice suffered a puncture on my current L460 440e and then been left waiting, fretfully, for days until Kwik Fit could manage to source a like-for-like replacement. JLR blames the regulatory calculation of WLTP CO2 emissions. But, instead of gaslighting its most valuable customers and, Soviet-style, instructing them that they may only have no spare wheel and a paltry bottle of tyre repair foam or an ugly and pointless reduced section spare wheel, they urgently put their wizards to work at Gaydon and provide Autobiography customers with the inestimable luxury of a full-size spare wheel option without unwittingly hitting some weight/emissions ceiling that JLR can't presently be bothered to fix.

My order allowed a full size spare on my D350 AB
Hope it’s there when o collect from Solihul

Good to hear and, hopefully, it will be!

This is, I think, purely a Phev issue, owing to battery size and weight. On the other hand, since Phev L460s are among JLRs biggest sellers, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Auto customers wouldn't be penalised for choosing this more low carbon model variant (particularly when SE and HSE Phev customers are permitted to have a spare wheel).

I just checked and configurator on 26 for Autobiography definately does allow a 23" spare wheel, admittedly it costs £1060 plus VAT and you cant have tailgate seating that was on D300 & D350 and P550e and P460e and P530.

Sadly, I wish this were the case.

No, for the 460e and 550e Phevs, you can neither have 23" wheels (a pity) nor, for the Autobiography variants, spare wheels (a real nuisance) ...

Apologies, my error, i checked configurator 10mins ago and you could and I have just checked now and you cant and its only got 22" wheels not 23" wheels, very strange!!!

You will just have to get a P530 and then you can have a spare wheel.....