New Range Rover Evoque Convertible: Hateful Creation Or Kinda Cool?

Since the car’s launch, Land Rover has sold a preposterous amount of Range Rover Evoques. In fact, last year this dinky Range offshoot was still by far the best selling car from the Land Rover stable. However, not wanting to rest on their laurels, the ladies and gents at JLR thought it best to do something that might make the Evoque even more tempting to the trendy, well-off folk the car targets: hack the roof off.

Yep, the Range Rover Evoque Convertible - a car we’ve been expecting for a while - is now a thing.

On sale from Spring 2016 onwards with a starting price of £47,500, this new Evoque has been subject to all sorts of strengthening measures underneath, resulting in a car that’s as stiff as the hardtop upon which it’s based, and also around 260kg heavier. Although the electric folding fabric roof does play a part in the Evoque cab’s extra pork.

As you’ll have probably gathered from the press images - which show the Evoque tackling tricky terrain in exotic locations - the drop top can still do the rough stuff, and Land Rover is jolly keen for people to know that. It comes with all the fancy mud-plugging tech we’ve come to expect on Land Rover products, including Terrain Response, Wade Sensing and All-Terrain Progress Control. The ground clearance and wading depths are the same as the regular Evoque too.

Land Rover is keen to call this new Evoque the "most capable all-terrain convertible in the world", and although that’s not exactly a heavily contested title - not to mention something that’ll be irrelevant to the vast majority of buyers - the company’s off-roading rep leaves little reason to doubt the confidence.

Given the sales success of the standard Evoque, Land Rover will almost certainly sell plenty of these things, but we want to know what you think of it. Reaction to the car on CT hasn’t been quite the universal outrage we’d been expecting (this is a contentious car for enthusiasts to cope with, after all), so we’re interested to see how many of you actually dig the Evoque Convertible…