Range Rover LRX - Offical

Land Rover confirms Range Rover's 2011 launch, as 'eco-friendly' model is spied testing.

Range Rover is going green! These shots are the first ever of the new LRX - which Land Rover today confirmed will be launched in 20121.

Based on the popular LRX concept first shown at the 2008 Detroit Motor Show, the new model is tipped to debut 'green' technology which will later make it onto all Range Rover models.

Designed and engineered at the firm's HQ in Gaydon, the firm is promising that the new Range Rover will be the smallest, lightest and most efficient vehicle the company has ever produced.

Built in the UK at Halewood, Merseyside, the car will be sold in over 100 countries around the world.

Phil Popham, Managing Director of Land Rover said: "The production of a small Range Rover model is excellent news for our employees, dealers and customers. It is a demonstration of our commitment to investing for the future, delivering revant vehicles with the outstanding breadth of capablility for which we are world-renowned."

The prototype pictured here sports a Freelander body but the wheelbase is clearly shorter and the camouflaged front suggests that the mule has an updated grille.

Though the car’s technical specification is still being determined, it’s thought the newcomer is likely to share some parts with the current Freelander, and offer an engine range capable of delivering on the firm’s emissions promise of 150g co2/km

A hybrid version is also thought to be under development, capable of returning less than 120g co2/km.

Sources have suggested that the LRX will be unveiled on the 17th June next year; a date that will mark exactly 40 years since the original Range Rover was introduced.