{"id":204,"date":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azlro.org\/5\/2006\/05\/04\/land-rover-lr3-sat-nav-used-to-guide-cargo-plane\/"},"modified":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"land-rover-lr3-sat-nav-used-to-guide-cargo-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/land-rover-lr3-sat-nav-used-to-guide-cargo-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Rover LR3 sat-nav used to guide cargo plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/articles\/47.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of its \u2018Designed for the Extraordinary\u2019 marketing campaign, the adventurous folks at Land Rover rolled a 2006 LR3 onboard a C-130 \u2018Hercules\u2019 cargo plane, and then the flight crew used the car\u2019s nav system to navigate the plane from Nice, France to the island of Corsica.<\/p>\n<p> In true over-the-top marketing-speak, Sally Eastwood, VP marketing for Land Rover North America, says, \u2018This is a truly extraordinary demonstration of the capability and adventure inherent within all Land Rover vehicles, and the LR3 in particular.\u2019 We\u2019re not sure we\u2019d go quite that far, but the innovative P.R. stunt should make for a cool TV spot for those interested in the \u2018off road\u2019 capabilities of the LR3\u2019s nav system.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[Sources: Land Rover; AdWeek, Autoblog]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/articles\/47.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of its &#8216;Designed for the Extraordinary&#8217; marketing campaign, the adventurous folks at Land Rover rolled a 2006 LR3 onboard a C-130 &#8216;Hercules&#8217; cargo plane, and then the flight crew used the car&#8217;s nav system to navigate the plane from Nice, France to the island of Corsica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azlro.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}