The new fifth-generation Range Rover won the Production Car of the Year award from Car Design News, one of the most coveted awards in automotive design.
The new fifth-generation Range Rover won the Production Car of the Year award from Car Design News, one of the most coveted awards in automotive design.
Range Rover was recognized for combining modern reductionist design principles with core tenets of a fifty-year design legacy, with the new vehicle a clear derivative of Spen King and David Bache’s original Range Rover Classic.
The competition was held between all-new vehicle designs launched between April 2021 and September 2022. The panel of expert jurors included design leaders from Polestar, Lamborghini, Volvo and Lucid.
In addition to Range Rover winning the overall award, the Range Rover SV and Defender teams won for their work on Color, Materials, and Finish. The award cited how they used color and texture to tie together the interior and exterior of vehicles in innovative and straightforward ways.
Up and coming JLR designer Ken (Yujian) Gan received the Undiscovered Talent Award, for young designers with exciting talents ready to harness. A graduate in Automotive and Transport Design from Coventry University, this award certainly helps kick-start his auto design career.
All in all, for a vehicle with a long history of being a design icon – the original Range Rover, after all, is the only car ever displayed in The Louvre – this is another achievement and an acknowledgment of the flexibility and longevity of the core Range Rover design principles that have guided each generation for half a century.
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