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It has been described as the British granddaddy of the modern four-wheel-drive sport-utility vehicles. Twenty-two years after the introduction of the legendary Land Rover, Rover Co. introduced the Range Rover, shifting its product focus from the safari to the suburbs. Unlike the utilitarian Land Rover with its mesh-covered headlights and spare tire mounted on the hood, the Range Rover was designed to handle more like a passenger car for on-road driving, not a truck primarily intended for off-road use. Range Rovers' also offered buyers a V-8, a variation of the aluminum-block engines developed by General Motors Corp. for the compact Buicks of the early 1960s. By 1980 the Range Rover also was offered in a four-door model. As the United States developed fuel and safety standards in the 1970s, exports of the Land Rover to the United States all but disappeared in the 1980s. But Rover began exporting vehicles built to U.S. specifications in 1987, helping to revive the brand as one of the earlier luxury SUVs.

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