Range Rover Evoque Stunt - Speed Bump.
Will legendary Range Rover capability be enough to help the Evoque rise to the occasion when ‘city planners’ install the mother of all speed bumps?
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Land Rover Range Rover Evoque review.
The formula for the Range Rover Evoque seems so obvious now: make a car that has all the desirability of a Range Rover, with a beautiful interior and the styling turned up to 11, yet at a more affordable price.
It wasn’t so clear-cut at the start, given that the concept version that preceded the Evoque was called Land Rover LRX. But when it arrived it all made sense.
The Evoque – offered as a five-door, a striking three-door whose looks befit its coupé tag or as a convertible – is an SUV right at the premium end of the compact 4x4 market.
It is powered by turbocharged four-cylinder engines and, at the bottom of the range, runs with a price of just over £30k. The meat of the range is closer to £40k while the convertibles start nearer the £50k mark.
Front drive is available. So, too, are manual gearboxes, a petrol engine and a host of trim, styling and refinement features aching to take the price of a Range Rover Evoque towards £50k.
To find out if it is worth that – or any – kind of money is our purpose.
A car’s styling often merits no more than a few cursory mentions in our road test, but the Range Rover Evoque demands an exception.
Supercars aside, only Citroën’s DS3 and some retro hatches draw so heavily on their design as a selling point.
The Evoque was born out of a desire to make Land Rover appeal to a more youthful audience. After a number of design studies were created, they were finally honed into the LRX concept car, which saw daylight at the 2008 Detroit motor show.
Even then, its future was uncertain; part or all of it could have become a premium Land Rover, or it could have been left as a show car. In the end, the whole design was adopted and given the Range Rover moniker.
The Evoque is, as much as possible, the LRX in production form. Land Rover is coy about having the two cars – concept and reality – photographed together, lest the production version look limp by comparison.
Little chance of that, we’d have thought. To our eyes, the Evoque is a brilliantly successful interpretation of how relevant, approachable and striking a contemporary 4x4 can look.
Have you ever seen an SUV with slimmer side and rear windows and a wedgier waistline? Nor have we.
The Evoque brings new dynamism and sparkle to the Range Rover marque inside. The dials add new bling to the dashboard, and the centre console – throughout Land Rover history as upright as the car’s nose – rakes steeply down towards the transmission tunnel.
There rests the rotary gearlever dial, born in a Jaguar but fast becoming a feature of all automatic JLR cars, and surrounded by more neatly designed, smaller switchgear than in previous Range Rovers.
Land Rover has trodden a careful path with the Evoque’s cabin. It would have been easy to over-glamorise it. Instead, it just errs towards the classy, without being overly bejewelled (except perhaps in the dials department). Perceived quality is broadly very commendable. You will find no better plastics, leathers or textures at this price.
Those surfaces extend to leather seats, whose shape looks more appealing than it feels to sit in during spirited driving, where several of our testers felt them too flat.
They’re a compromise somewhere between the upright ‘command’ driving position of which Land Rover is proud (and which this car’s short length dictates if decent rear legroom is to be maintained), and the conventional low-car driving position most Evoque buyers will be more familiar with.
A widely adjustable steering wheel means most will be able to find a comfortable driving position, but it took some of our testers a touch longer than usual to do so.
The rear cabin is respectable for adults, but the three-door variant (which costs more than the five-door) does put headroom at a much greater premium. With a high floor, a low roof and a stubby rear overhang, you’d expect the boot to be small, but it’s respectable, at 550 litres.
However, it dispenses, unforgivably for an SUV, with a spare wheel. Throw the rear seats forward and you create 1350 litres of volume. Meanwhile, Land Rover has, perhaps more astutely, taken care to ensure the Evoque can take a set of golf clubs “without long clubs having to be removed from the bag”.
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