Was Range Rover so preoccupied with whether or not it could make the SV Coupe, it didn't stop to think if it should? Few cars bring Jeff Goldblum's famous Jurassic Park admonishment to mind so readily as the vast, two-door SUV coupe does at the Geneva Motor Show this year, a $295,000 solution to a problem that, on the face of it, nobody actually had.
Range Rover has clearly had enough of stablemate Jaguar getting all the two-door fun, if the new Range Rover SV Coupe is anything to go by. Making its debut at the Geneva Motor Show 2018 today, the car - described as "the world's first full-size luxury SUV Coupe" - starts with the automaker's already-luxurious Range Rover, then drops the rear doors, throws in a supercharged V8 engine, and gives it the sort of interior that private jets would be envious over.
Cars are meant to drive on roads. Some are built to drive on treacherous ones. None, however, are meant to climb, yes climb, stairs, especially deadly steep stairs. Land Rover, however, just proved to the world that it has a car that can do both. The Range Rover Sport PHEV has just made a world record by not only driving through a dizzying 99 turns but also climbing the 45-degree 999 steps up the natural rock arch that is known as Heaven’s Gate.
Land Rover may be known for its luxury off-road SUVs, but today it's teasing a whole different thing in the shape of the new Range Rover SV Coupe. Being previewed ahead of its full reveal at the 2018 Geneva International Motor Show, the car promises to epitomize both the origins of Land Rover seven decades ago, and its positioning as a tech-savvy brand today.
The Range Rover arguably set SUVs up as the high-riding alternative to traditional luxury sedans, and now the Range Rover SVAutobiography is cranking things even higher. Revealed this week in US spec at the LA Auto Show 2017, the new SUV takes the latest Range Rover and entrusts it to the careful hands of Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations.
A week ago Range Rover unveiled its first plug-in hybrid SUV in the form of the Range Rover Sport PHEV. Another plug-in hybrid has been unveiled and this one is aimed at the luxury-minded buyers out there wanting green transportation. The Range Rover PHEV has a total power output of 404PS (about 400hp) and 640Nm (472 lb-ft) of torque, which is the same output of the Range Rover Sport. It promises NEDC fuel economy of 101 mpg and has an electric-only range of 31 miles.
A new video has turned up that alleges to show the 2018 Range Rover giving us our first glimpse at the SUV before it goes official. On the outside, the SUV has much of the same style and design as the previous models offered. What you can see in the video is a new LED headlight system and revised LED daytime running lights.
Range Rover has added a new plug-in hybrid SUV to its Range Rover Sport family. The hybrid Range Rover Sport combines electric propulsion with a gas engine for performance. The plug-in hybrid has total power of 404PS (right at 400 hp) and 640 Nm (472 ft-lb) of torque.
If the average Range Rover owner goes no further off the asphalt than up the curb, you might as well embrace that. So, it's claimed, goes the thinking at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which is said to be planning a new model line that accepts many drivers aren't in it for the AWD cred.
Velar is an very old name for a very modern Range Rover. Automakers mining their history for neglected nameplates isn't new, of course, but all the same few spend so long in the cold as Velar did. Used, nearly five decades ago, on the first "hiding in plain sight" prototype Range Rovers, the badge is back to usher in a very British reinvention of the midsize luxury SUV. No small challenge ahead, then, as Land Rover explained when it invited me out to Norway to experience the 2018 Velar in action.
The Range Rover Evoque Convertible's time in the autoshow spotlight may have faded to distant memory, but its oddball status remains. Even several months after they started showing up on dealer forecourts, usually sufficient time for the gloss to fade on all but the most unexpected exotica, the Evoque Convertible still turns heads. A reasonable part of that, I suspect, isn't so much because onlookers necessarily like the design, but because seeing an SUV with the top chopped off is still strange.
This is the 2018 Range Rover Velar, and it's officially A Big Deal for Land Rover - not to mention new territory. The Range Rover Velar doesn't replace an existing model but, instead, slots into the so-called white space between two. So, it's larger than the Evoque, but smaller than the Range Rover Sport, with a 113.15-inch wheelbase.