The new Range Rover Velar – a new Range Rover sitting between the Evoque and Sport – is almost revealed by Land Rover ahead of its Geneva Motor Show debut.
This, ladies and gentleman, is the Range Rover Velar, a new Range Rover which slots in between the Evoque and the Range Rover Sport and fills that yawning gap between the two which has been hampering Land Rover’s sales.
Turning Land Rover’s Range Rover brand in to a four model range, the Velar – borrowing the code name used for the original Range Rover when it was in development – is a sort of Range Rover take on the BMW X6 but, we hope, better looking.
Of course, despite the Velar coming to market to fulfil a lifestyle statement for a certain type of buyer, it will still have to do what a Land Rover does, although – as it’s based on the Jaguar F-Pace – perhaps not quite as well as, say, the full-sized Range Rover.
Engines will undoubtedly include JLR’s range of four-cylinder Ingenium diesel and petrol engines, the new in-line six Ingenium engines when they arrive too (and perhaps the current sixes before) and, we expect, something big and V8 – perhaps an SVR version too.
We can probably expect a bit more in the next week or two on the Velar, but full details will arrive with the new Range Rover at Geneva.
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