This Is The All-New Range Rover Evoque And It Will Off-Road

Land Rover has revealed the all-new Range Rover Evoque, and the company seems quite keen to point out that it really will go off-road
This Is The All-New Range Rover Evoque And It Will Off-Road

Land Rover has lifted the embargo on the new Range Rover Evoque, so now we can tell you about all of its sterling off-road capabilities that owners will never use.

The styling of the 2011 original has been left largely unchanged in principle, but the lower grille now has more body-colour trim around it and the original fog light arrangement has been swapped for more aggressive vents ahead of the front wheels. While there’s no three-door this time, the silhouette and profile are very familiar.

This Is The All-New Range Rover Evoque And It Will Off-Road

Arguably the new Evoque has taken-on something of the Velar around its rear end, which is no bad thing. Trademark thin LED headlight clusters remain, with Matrix LEDs part of a special range-topping equipment line called First Edition. Standard wheel sizes range from a positively shameful 17 inches to 20 inches; the minimum for buyers who prioritise style. The options list includes 21s.

All engines are four-cylinder apart from the three-pot fitted to the new plug-in hybrid version, for which technical details haven’t yet been released.

This Is The All-New Range Rover Evoque And It Will Off-Road

Prices will start at £31,600 for the ‘D150’ 148bhp diesel with front-wheel drive and a manual gearbox. It’s the only model without JLR’s nine-speed automatic or permanent all-wheel drive. A £3500 premium buys the gearbox and drivetrain upgrade, at which point a further £750 raises power to 177bhp in the ‘D180’. There’s also a ‘D240’ 236bhp diesel for £38,600.

On the petrol side the range starts with the £35,950 ‘P200’ 197bhp Ingenium four-pot. The same engine features in ‘P250’ and ‘P300’ guises with 245bhp and 296bhp respectively. First Edition cars come with either the D180 diesel or P250 petrol and cost an eye-watering amount more than the standard cars. The gap between the base D180 and the First Edition version is £13,700.

This Is The All-New Range Rover Evoque And It Will Off-Road

Trim grades span the unnamed ‘standard’ level, S, SE, HSE and First Edition. A separate sporty trim package called R-Dynamic can be added to all except First Edition for £1500. Among the standard kit is a rear camera, front and rear parking sensors, cruise control, a ‘driver condition monitor,’ eight-way heated front seats and a heated windscreen.

Also standard is impressive off-road capability. You have to feel for the Range Rover engineers who work so hard to make the Evoque so handy in the muck when no one other than the occasional journalist will actually present one with an off-road challenge that you couldn’t complete in a Ford Fiesta.

This Is The All-New Range Rover Evoque And It Will Off-Road

The new Evoque will wade up to 600mm, 100mm more than before, and what’s more, sensors will actually tell you when you’re at that depth. Another handy touch is ClearSight Ground View, a technology that evolved from Land Rover’s transparent bonnet concept.

Terrain Response 2 is now standard on all automatic cars, offering Comfort, Sand, Grass-Gravel-Snow and Mud & Ruts modes. There’s now an Auto mode where the car will pick what terrain it thinks it’s on. Alongside all that are All Terrain Progress Control, Low Traction Launch, Hill Descent Control, brake-based torque vectoring, steel suspension and handy touches like a brake pad wear indicator.

This Is The All-New Range Rover Evoque And It Will Off-Road

On the inside things can get as luxurious as your wallet is willing to finance. Leathers in various choices of colour cover most of an interior that’s dominated by three large digital screens; one acting as the instrument cluster and two more as the centre console. There’s also a full-colour head-up display. The practicality of glass-covered touch-screens is yet to be proven, with fingerprints an eternal problem and big question marks over their ease of use on bumpy roads.

Naturally there’s a 4G WiFi hotspot for up to eight devices and six USB ports throughout the, err, five-seat car. Click-on tablet holders are also available to keep the rear passengers quiet.

The new Evoque will arrive in showrooms next Spring.

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Comments

DL🏁

I’m literally the only person in the world who’s not digging the looks of the Velar and now this…
Much prefer the XC40 over the Evoque’s design, but I have to say that interior looks amazing (not sure how practical it is, but it seems like JLR are a generation ahead of competition)

11/22/2018 - 22:12 |
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Well, at least, during the emergency situation, the Evoque will be more capable on every terrain eventhough it’s not as good as the Volvo

11/26/2018 - 08:39 |
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Advanced Handling Flags

Hmm, what an imaginative design.

11/22/2018 - 23:27 |
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PorscheBoi996

The old one can already off-road quite decently, as James May took it around the Desert near Las Vegas and and went to get a burger with a Crossdresser

11/23/2018 - 02:09 |
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ferrarman11

I always see Range Rovers shown as really good off-roaders but honestly who is really going to off road their $100k Range Rover??? It will probably just spend most of its life sitting in front of shopping mall valet

11/23/2018 - 04:26 |
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A lot of farmers use Range Rovers.

11/23/2018 - 07:46 |
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It’s quite weird in the UK these days. Farmers are some of the richest people around where I live, partly down to having a lot of family owned land, selling a portion of it and having enough money to live on. Most farmers do have range rovers round here, because they want a luxury car but also to get across their land. Sure they won’t be mud crawling, but I wouldn’t want to take a jaguar on a field

11/24/2018 - 12:30 |
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Anonymous

It’s a cute little SUV, has good alloy engines and probably will surely go quite good off the road but hey … The fact it can be bought FWD hurts me in an incredible way >:( ! I know that is a way to sell more cars because a lot of people just want an off road “style” and not a real off roader , and the combo diesel/fwd will be a best seller in europe , but this is way a brand loses completely its identity ! I know that this is the only car to be offered fwd … But it’s an heavy problem . Just imagine in your mind an fwd Ferrari , you can’t right? Yep it’s the same way with an fwd LR , it’s completely pointless .

11/23/2018 - 07:51 |
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Williard

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

95% of Evoque owners won’t even have a tow bar on the car itself, let alone go anywhere near dirt. Not really hurting their companies identity in the same way Mercedes does poverty spec vans and a-class’s. They sell these cars to improve the flagship model in LR case the Vogue.

11/25/2018 - 11:15 |
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Anonymous

I really like it a range is a dream car of me and i someday will hopefully have one

11/23/2018 - 11:29 |
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Anonymous

I like how there is not a single bit of dirt on these cars! Look at that last picture, it’s in the middle of a puddle but absolutely perfectly clean!

11/24/2018 - 08:21 |
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Ben Anderson 1

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

They drive the car into the dirt, wipe it down, then take the photograph. Whilst having the car covered in dirt would be more authentic, the kind of people that actually buy these would be put off by mud all over the car.

11/26/2018 - 07:35 |
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Blade noir

I can hear the sounds of recalls in the distance.

11/25/2018 - 14:36 |
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Anonymous

Funny that it does offroad while the Velar gets stuck basically in field

11/27/2018 - 05:46 |
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Carmadnab

Interior looks great except its found in EVERY car in the “Range”… just takes out the point of buying the other models

11/29/2018 - 22:00 |
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