Ed speak
THIS MONTH HAS SEEN THE REVEAL OF two renewed automotive icons, models that over the decades have put in the hard miles to earn their place in the history books. Yet while one of these appears to have nailed the brief, the other hasn’t. Well, not to me at least. For five decades, the Range Rover has been unmistakeably a Range Rover. Admittedly the P38 left a little to be desired in the looks department, but it retained the key attributes that made it the car that rival manufacturers wanted to make but didn’t have the confidence to. Today’s fifth generation is a masterstroke of evolution, appealing to existing customers while having enough about it to attract new ones. And then there is the new Mercedes SL. Except it’s not a Mercedes…