Is Andrew exaggerating ?
TReK
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Actually - @GHasley - I was at the ABFM All British Field Meet in Portland last weekend (one of if not the largest British car show in US).
JLR trotted out a UX team there with a lttle tent that said JLR on it, some LR schwag and a rather random RHD L460 new Range Rover test mule there in full zebra stripe camo. Not sure why, it was just a garden variety L460. Maybe for attention. And the L460 is what got my attention.
They didn't really ask me for feedback but.. .when in Rome. I went a good 5 minutes on Camping Mode and Pivi improvements with them. I think the woman was responsible for 5 years down the road future tech... but she got it. There was also at the show, a "DEFENDER" JLR product team. JLR had flown in a product specialist who works for JLR (not the local dealer) to hype up L663 130/110/90. They had 3 there. He actually recorded an iPhone video "for his boss in Defender product" of me talking about camping mode in great detail. He thought it was a good point. Mostly because -- they were HAVING TO START AND IDLE THE VEHICLES EVERY HOUR to keep the batteries from dying. Proved my point.
JLR trotted out a UX team there with a lttle tent that said JLR on it, some LR schwag and a rather random RHD L460 new Range Rover test mule there in full zebra stripe camo. Not sure why, it was just a garden variety L460. Maybe for attention. And the L460 is what got my attention.
They didn't really ask me for feedback but.. .when in Rome. I went a good 5 minutes on Camping Mode and Pivi improvements with them. I think the woman was responsible for 5 years down the road future tech... but she got it. There was also at the show, a "DEFENDER" JLR product team. JLR had flown in a product specialist who works for JLR (not the local dealer) to hype up L663 130/110/90. They had 3 there. He actually recorded an iPhone video "for his boss in Defender product" of me talking about camping mode in great detail. He thought it was a good point. Mostly because -- they were HAVING TO START AND IDLE THE VEHICLES EVERY HOUR to keep the batteries from dying. Proved my point.
TReK
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From: Kirkland WA
Actually - @GHasley - I was at the ABFM All British Field Meet in Portland last weekend (one of if not the largest British car show in US).
JLR trotted out a UX team there with a lttle tent that said JLR on it, some LR schwag and a rather random RHD L460 new Range Rover test mule there in full zebra stripe camo. Not sure why, it was just a garden variety L460. Maybe for attention. And the L460 is what got my attention.
They didn't really ask me for feedback but.. .when in Rome. I went a good 5 minutes on Camping Mode and Pivi improvements with them. I think the woman was responsible for 5 years down the road future tech... but she got it. There was also at the show, a "DEFENDER" JLR product team. JLR had flown in a product specialist who works for JLR (not the local dealer) to hype up L663 130/110/90. They had 3 there. He actually recorded an iPhone video "for his boss in Defender product" of me talking about camping mode in great detail. He thought it was a good point. Mostly because -- they were HAVING TO START AND IDLE THE VEHICLES EVERY HOUR to keep the batteries from dying. Proved my point.
JLR trotted out a UX team there with a lttle tent that said JLR on it, some LR schwag and a rather random RHD L460 new Range Rover test mule there in full zebra stripe camo. Not sure why, it was just a garden variety L460. Maybe for attention. And the L460 is what got my attention.
They didn't really ask me for feedback but.. .when in Rome. I went a good 5 minutes on Camping Mode and Pivi improvements with them. I think the woman was responsible for 5 years down the road future tech... but she got it. There was also at the show, a "DEFENDER" JLR product team. JLR had flown in a product specialist who works for JLR (not the local dealer) to hype up L663 130/110/90. They had 3 there. He actually recorded an iPhone video "for his boss in Defender product" of me talking about camping mode in great detail. He thought it was a good point. Mostly because -- they were HAVING TO START AND IDLE THE VEHICLES EVERY HOUR to keep the batteries from dying. Proved my point.
Winching
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l am willing to bet it would be easy to add "Camping" or "Overlanding" mode with a software update to all the Defenders already sold.
There wouldn't even need to be any new hardware. Just someone's time to design the new piece of software.
There wouldn't even need to be any new hardware. Just someone's time to design the new piece of software.
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