Gents, many of you may know how long I have been wanting to see a Vesuvius orange RRS. Earlier this week I was at Dunsfold Land Rover, and happened to see this beauty sitting with all the wrecks and riches in their yard.



 2002 Discovery Adventurer LE
1998 Freelander xedi
Ertl limited edition RRS model number 817

Must have been a relatively sunny day Andy as it actually looks orange, most times I have seen 1st Eds in the UK they look greeny brown! Nice pic, you see the patient are rewarded! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Don't most LR-owned cars have VX number plates? I presume they are all registered in the same place... 

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Just found this information about the vehicle-

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THIS RANGE ROVER SPORT, FACTORY CODE (L320) IS A (P.P.) PRE-PRODUCTION BUILD AND WAS THE PHOTO SHOOT CAR FOR ALL EARLY LITERATURE. IT STARTED LIFE AS A WHITE VEHICLE BUT WAS RE PAINTED AND UPGRADED TO THE CURRENT SPECIAL EDITION SPECIFICATION FOR THIS JOB. THE SPORT WAS REGISTERED ON 1/11/04, WHICH WAS 6 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH. THESE ARE A VERY EXCITING VERSION OF THE RANGE ROVER LINE UP USING MANY DRIVE LINE PARTS FROM THE NEW DISCOVERY. 3 ENGINE OPTIONS ARE MADE V8 SUPERCHARGED, V8 N/A AND A V6 DIESEL. THIS SPORT WILL POSSIBLY BE THE OLDEST PROTOTYPE LEFT.

Agree - it probably is the oldest one around. 

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Interesting history but could it honestly be sold as a 1st Edition. Usually pre-prodcution cars go into the big LR crusher as their specs are weird and can cause dealers problems at service time. It will be worth a huge amount of money in about 20 years time especially if the owner has kept all the other trinkets that went with the launch of RRS and 1St Editions and he can match the reg to the car in the brochures! Same as the 3 or 4 4.4V8 Superchargeds that managed to escape from the factory. Only draw back is that it has probably had the living daylights hamered out of it by planeloads of motoring hacks having prelaunch test sessions. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

The other side of that coin is that maybe it's been looked after very well

I presume if this was seen at Dunsfold, it's probably still owned by LR. 

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