So this is an odd request but we're kind of running out of options. I figured I'd post this here so it would have access to all the car guys and girls on the board, get more eyes and brains looking at it. Some of you that are local to metro Atlanta may've seen this in the news a week or so ago, but my office is currently investigating a collision involving a pedestrian and possibly a white SUV that drove onto the sidewalk. A neighbor had some video footage but it's not the best quality image. Our best guess at this point is that it could be a Land Rover of some sort, but we can't find one that fits all of the characteristics of the vehicle in the video.
We've got a white SUV with some lower door cladding, black mirrors and (possibly) door handles, blacked-out pillars, shorter roof rails, no apparent sunroof, and maybe a "notch" where the side mirror trim extends a little forward of the door or at least where the hood or fender overlaps the trim. We've come up with a handful of vehicles that fit some or most of these features but none that has them all. It's a tall order because a lot of those things might be options, accessories, or aftermarket add-ons that can be configured a thousand different ways. But I'm sure there's something we're missing so if you have thoughts or ideas please let me know.
1995-2000 Toyota RAV-4 5-door:
For some reason that, to me, looks like a Kia Soul. But most likely I am wrong.
EvanB
MegaDork
3/18/22 3:37 p.m.
My first thought was a Gen2.5 Montero but it seems like it may be too small for that.
2020 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport with the Black edition package? It's one of the few SUV with no sunroof standard.
If it wasn't for the black pillars, I'd say 90's Grand Cherokee. The taillights looks similar with the seperate lower reflector...
There were lots of versions of these, but I can't think of one with blacked out pillars.
Yeah we'd considered an older Cherokee but the pillars and roof rails don't match. We've also looked at Explorers and Escapes. The black pillars really throw it off because they're relatively uncommon design feature, and so in theory it should narrow things down a bit...
Thanks for what you guys have come up with so far, I'm gonna sit down with my guys this week and dig more into these suggestions. If you folks think of more in the meantime, keep 'em coming.
If it's not a big SUV, Mini Countryman could fit.
Upright windshield, black mirrors, roof rack and black pillars says Rover to me.
Roof gutter plastic is wrong
this one has the correct short roof rack but c pillar would have to be painted
Flex seems too long but has short roof rails
vehicle is pretty short. My other first thought was early 1st Gen RAV4 (but they had the goofy cross bar roof rack not rails) or X5 with some custom paint.
1999-2006 X5 has the trim line below the windows.
