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Welly 1:43 Jaguar F-pace and 2015 Land Rover Range Rover Sport

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Like it or not SUV’s are dominant in the marketplace and every day it seems more and more premium SUVs are released and Welly keeps putting them out as well.   The famed Range Rover Sport, reviewed on here as the orange 1:24 from Welly a few years ago, now comes in a smaller 1:43 with a sleek green color joins the all-new Jaguar F-pace, Jaguar’s first SUV. 2015 Range Rover Sport What Land Rover did to the second-generation Range Rover Sport is make a Range Rover look more sportier than the boxy first-generation and it works, but now looks like the larger Range Rover and the new Velar so confusion will ensure.   The sport starts with familiar Range Rover styling cues and then adds hood and front fender vents, aggressive front bumper, larger wheels, lower roof in black, and more power courtesy of the 5.0L supercharged V8 that makes 510 horsepower through an eight-speed automatic and despite the sport nature it can still go off-road with part-time f

Welly 1:43 Genesis G90 and Kia Optima FL (2004)

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Not to be outdone is a few more oddities from the Welly and Hyundai/Kia partnership, the first Genesis model and an update for the Optima (K5) model. Genesis G90 In 2009 Hyundai release their first entry into the luxury market just 20 years after the Japanese automakers entered the same market with their own brands.   However, unlike them Hyundai started the new Genesis brand with two models and built into the Hyundai dealerships until Hyundai can guarantee the brand will be a success.   Now six years later the Genesis brand is now a stand-alone brand supplying two sedans with more models coming in the future and now the Genesis sedan is now the G80 and the larger Eqqus the G90.   The G90 was the top-end model to the Genesis line offering features normally found on Mercedes S-class and BMW 7-series models for a fraction of the price and for the second-generation it has styling that better lines up with the G80.   The grille is now larger and the