IRVINE, Calif. — Land Rover North America is proud to announce that the 2008 Range Rover Sport has received the Automotive Lease Guide (ALG) Residual Value Award in the Luxury CUV segment. The annual Residual Value Awards identify those vehicles predicted to retain the highest percentage of their original purchase price after a conventional three-year lease term.“We understand the importance of residual values in our highly competitive business and are delighted by this recognition,” said Chris Marchand, executive vice president of Marketing and Sales, Land Rover North America.

The ALG awards are based on careful evaluation of segment competition, past vehicle performance and emerging trends in the industry.

“The 2008 awards prove once again that compelling design, high quality manufacturing and disciplined pricing and volume programs are essential to achieve the highest residual value,” said John Blair, Automotive Lease Guide’s Chief Executive Officer.

Land Rover’s Range Rover Sport and other award winners are featured on ALG.com as well as other automotive publications and websites dedicated to bringing the industry’s best-performing models into the public eye.

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RANGE ROVER SPORT PREDICTED TO RETAIN HIGHEST RESIDUAL VALUE FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW

Brand Land Rover conquered in three nominations of eight in the reward “extra-road builder of year” in 2008 from the British periodical “4×4 Magazine”, and was also honored main reward – title “extra-road builder of year” – for new Defender.

Land Rover Defender 90, Range Rover and Discovery 3 attained the first places, respectively in the nominations “extreme passability”, “luxurious automobile” and “family automobile”, after outdistancing almost 60 worthy competitors. “we are assured, this scale test – the most objective during entire history of our publication”, said John Carroll, editor in chief “4×4 Magazine”. – “those more valuable victory Land Rover into this ever more competitive sector of market.

Entire model number Land Rover wonderfully showed itself against the background of remaining participants in the test, but Defender it continues to remain the king of extra-roads builder. Because of its to the completely new engine with a volume of 2,4 liters and gearbox, and also usovershenstvovannomu interior legendary British symbol obviously rose to the new level “.

The automobiles of the new model number Land Rover enjoy increasing popularity, also, in buyers in entire peace: sales in nine months of this year grew by 13% in comparison with the same period of past year.
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Land Rover Defender awarded as the best offroad car