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| walfy Member Since: 29 Aug 2007 Location: Frome Posts: 2658  
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Don't prototypes have to be crushed or go into a museum? I'm sure they're not allowed to be sold to joe public 110 D250 SE HT
110 USW SOLD RRE HSE Dynamic Gone, wife killed it VOLVO XC60 R Dynamic with some toys Polaris RZR 900XP SOLD |
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24th Jul 2020 8:51pm |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2138  
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Very lucrtive tax write off.......
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24th Jul 2020 8:56pm |
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| RDR Member Since: 27 Apr 2018 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 592
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registered road testing prototypes do have to be destroyed when the production equivalent is launched. Design prototypes that are not for road testing I think are slightly different. Got in a conversation at the D5 launch as the car we viewed was a road test prototype destined for destruction shortly after. Not the best car to give a dealer for a launch preview night it was well worn! 110 MY23.5 X Dynamic HSE
RR MY23 HSE PHEV D5 MY19 HSE - Now Sold D4 MY16 HSE Luxury - Now Sold D4 MY12 HSE - Gone D3 MY06 S - Gone but not forgotten |
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24th Jul 2020 9:09pm |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3254 
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Didn't they name the prototypes First Edition? WARNING.
This post may contain sarcasm. |
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24th Jul 2020 9:17pm |
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| Pacha Member Since: 23 Feb 2020 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 772 
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It's not really, and very small potatoes in the development journey of a new model. Rgds. Chris |
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24th Jul 2020 9:23pm |
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| LRSpain004 Member Since: 30 Jun 2020 Location: Elche Posts: 68 
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 Brilliant! |
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24th Jul 2020 9:36pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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Do you have the build sheet? Or are there any other date markings on parts to suggest when parts were made? It's been stated on here that vehicles have been going down the production line since May 2019, although maybe not continously. |
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25th Jul 2020 2:33pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6089 
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There's 2 parked at Eastnor....
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25th Jul 2020 5:11pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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I think there's a recent story of Lotus selling prototypes to the public. If it can meet Construction & Use regulations, and pass an IVA, then it can be driven by anyone. If still in a manufacturer's hands then it can be driven on the road with partial exemptions to C&U. My understanding was a manufacturer could do what it wanted with a prototype but if it wanted to claim tax credits then it had to give up beneficial use ~ hence crush or donate to a museum. I once sat on Wayne Gardner's championship winning bike whilst working for Honda in Oz. It was going to be crushed shortly after. Not for tax credits, just that it contained so much Honda IP that had not been registered yet. |
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25th Jul 2020 6:07pm |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753
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There is a “club” for owners of pre-production and launch day LR cars - The CVC Register. - and their members have some interesting cars. It seems quite a few Freelander 1’s escaped the crusher and can be identified by their black stick on trims around the rear side windows, they are also all white 5 door cars. The Orange RRS S/C driven by Tiff Nidell and one Jeremy Clarkson (wonder what happened to him) is now owned by a member of RRSport forum and was a pre-production First Edition RRS. On launch day of D3 I was at the local dealership and they had a black V8 HSE D3 that looked like it had come of the road on their forecourt - it was a pre-pro car loaned to a local farmer to shake down and had loads of equipment on it that never made it onto the production cars, it also had about 40,000 miles on it on launch day! It was destined for the Solihull Crusher. Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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25th Jul 2020 7:06pm |
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| Slideywindows Member Since: 09 Sep 2016 Location: North Essex Posts: 1283 
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The CVC Register started off being for owners of very early RR P38A's which had CVC registrations.
It then morphed into being the Company Vehicles Club. There have been prototypes, pre-production and launch vehicles in private hands since Series One days . If past protocol is anything to go by, I imagine that true prototypes of the new vehicle could end up with the Dunsfold Trust. |
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25th Jul 2020 8:30pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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No they're not, Tim. This particular one is a non-white pre-pro but they made about 1950 vehicles with the extra black trim before doing away with it because of production and rectification issues:  Click image to enlarge Darren 110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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25th Jul 2020 9:44pm |
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| BuckBlu110 Member Since: 19 Apr 2014 Location: in the pub Posts: 712 
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My 94 300 110 has a CVC registration  I hope it isn’t a historically important vehicle because there isn’t much left of the original vehicle  |
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25th Jul 2020 10:42pm |
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| ibexman Member Since: 13 Dec 2008 Location: Essex Posts: 2945
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I’m sure I’ve seen a pic ofTwisted working on an ex prototype with some camouflage still not removed  |
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26th Jul 2020 8:05am |
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