Land Rover Range Rover Spy Shots - What are the disguised test vehicles?

As you may have read in my previous blog post I spotted a disguised Range Rover being tested near Warwick, West Midlands a couple of days ago.

Having loaded the details to my blog I thought I would check the number plate details using the MyCarCheck app for my iPhone. There were 4 different number plates that have been seen on disguised spy shots of the Range Rover 2012 model and surprisingly they all generated information using this app.

All vehicles are registered as Land Rovers which confirms the Range Rover identification. The variants are both petrol and diesel and despite the zebra patterns are registered as both black and brown models. The engines are 3000cc diesel (heavy oil) and 5000cc petrol. The one piece of information that is missing is the model name - LandRover are clearly trying to keep this bit secret still.

Range Rover 2012/2013 spy shots - Disguised Land Rover spotted out testing near Warwick

A disguised range rover believed to be a brand new 2012/2013 model has been spotted out testing near Warwick. The car was parked in a layby obscured from view of the road by trees when it was spotted. I managed to grab my new Canon 600d to get some shots. Unfortunately once the driver realized he was being photographed he drove off at high speed. I did get a number of spy shots of the 2012/2013 Range Rover with it's zebra disguise before he got too far away. It shows the massive resolution of the Canon 600d that even with the small zoom range of the 17-40 lens I had attached the photos could be successfully cropped to show the land rover range rover full screen on a monitor.

Spy shot of disguised Range Rover 2012 model being tested

Spy shot of Range Rover 2012 model being tested

It appears that there are at least 6 versions of the new 2013 Range Rover that are being road tested as the number plates on other ones spotted over the last few months are not the same as this vehicle.

Range Rover VX11HND as above, spotted near Warwick
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Range Rover  VU11DXB Spotted near Birmingham
Range Rover VU11DVM Spotted in Birmingham
Range Rover VX11HSK Spotted in Nurburgring
Range Rover VX10JCO - first "mule" spotted in 2010