INTRODUCING THE EVOQUE
Introducing the Evoque As Range Rover’s Evoque apparatus up to hit the streets, we get a guided bout of the car and aboriginal attending central â?? from its designer
Finally – our aboriginal acceptable attending at the smallest, lightest and greenest Range Rover anytime made! With adjustment books aperture in three months and prices from £30,000, Auto Express has had absolute admission to the Evoque, and announced to architecture bang-up Gerry McGovern about the a lot of arresting car the aggregation has anytime produced.
The Evoque retains the billowing arches, across-the-board headlights and glassy contour of the LRX abstraction apparent at the Detroit Motor Show in 2008. The barefaced foreground end and advanced attitude accord the car the aforementioned attendance as its bigger relatives, but it’s 150mm beneath and 100mm lower than the Freelander on which it’s based.
But admitting accepting beneath than its Land Rover sibling, the newcomer is no entry-level model. The autogenous is arranged with technology, including the ‘dual-view’ awning on the dash, which allows the commuter to watch a DVD while the disciplinarian uses sat-nav on the aforementioned screen. A 17-speaker Meridian audio arrangement is aswell an option.
What’s more, the baby exoteric hides a decidedly ample interior, with affluence of allowance for two adults in the costly covering rear seats. Thanks to able design, the coupé-like roof offers added allowance than you ability apprehend in the beautifully accomplished cabin.
As able-bodied as accepting a appearance statement, the Evoque shows how Range Rover has bankrupt up its act. It will be the aboriginal Range Rover to be offered with two-wheel drive, added adorning its appeal. The advantage of front-wheel drive aswell agency that – able with the new 2.2-litre eD4 agent engine and stop-start – the Evoque will acknowledgment abutting to 60mpg and CO2 abstracts beneath 130g/km.
Two added four-cylinder engines will complete the agency – a added able 187bhp diesel, and a new 2.0-litre turbo petrol assemblage with 240bhp. But both will alone be accessible with four-wheel drive.
Thanks to the use of abstracts such as aluminium and magnesium, the Evoque weighs over 100kg less, which should construe to activity ahead concealed on the marque’s high-riding 4x4s.Â
There will be three altered trims; Pure, Prestige and Dynamic. Each will attending hardly different, with the sportier models accepting body-coloured sills and skirts, and bespoke exhausts for a added able-bodied look.
The accepted £30,000 access amount is for a front-wheel-drive Pure, while a absolutely loaded Dynamic rises to added than £40,000. Adjustment books accessible in January, with deliveries starting at the end of May, while the five-door adaptation will be apparent in November.
For added on the Evoque, and the abounding account with architecture bang-up Gerry McGovern, accomplish abiding you aces up a archetype of the latest affair of Auto Express, on auction now at all acceptable newsagents.
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