Land Rover yesterday awarded a team of youngsters from Holland Park School, London, the coveted title of ‘TrackNAVCHALLENGE Champions 2009′ following an exciting national final held at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon.

Now in its third year, Land Rover’s TrackNAVCHALLENGE is designed to introduce youngsters to the world of design and engineering. Teams are tasked with designing and building a radio-controlled 4-wheel drive vehicle that emulates what a full size Land Rover can do.

Following several fiercely fought UK regional heats, ten teams competed in a climatic final to reveal the ‘Ruthless Rovers’ team from Holland Park as the overall winners.

Each team’s vehicle is tested to its limits over a challenging track, specially designed with a variety of obstacles to ensure it meets specifications set out by Land Rover engineers and educational specialists. (…)

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Jaguar Land Rover today announced the opening of its new industry-leading ‘Virtual Reality Centre’ at the Design and Engineering Centre in Gaydon.
The ’state-of-the-art’ design facility draws on advanced audio visual technologies with the projection power of the world’s highest resolution projectors to significantly speed up product development cycles following an investment of £2million.
Engineers and designers are able to see and interact with life-size, three-dimensional models of vehicles and components. The system reduces the need for physical prototypes, saving both time and money.

The most advanced facility of its kind in the world, Jaguar Land Rover’s ground-breaking four-walled centre is a complete turn-key solution using cutting-edge projection technology, advanced motion tracking of the user’s head and hands and is driven by advanced virtual reality software. (…)

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