What is it?
Evidence, primarily. Evidence of Land Rover’s ascent into the self-belief stratosphere, where no idea is too far out nor any niche too small. Evidence too of its preference for blue-sky imagineering; of packaging an answer before the question even occurred to its European rivals. Evidence, certainly, of the firm’s Tata-era fearlessness.
Being undaunted by the prospect of failure seems like a fairly important commodity when you’re thinking about separating an SUV from its roof. There have always been open-top off-roaders, of course, (the first ones came equipped with machine guns and wise-cracking GIs) but the Evoque convertible is the first compact luxury model to attempt the trick.
Range Rover Evoque Convertible revealed
Quirky though that might seem, the model has arguably been on the journey since its arrival. The Evoque’s claim to the more robust side of Land Rover’s image has always been fairly tenuous. Yes, there’s a proper 4x4 drivetrain underneath, but the manufacturer clearly wasn’t thinking of green-laners when it announced Victoria Beckham as a design consultant the first time around.
The same niche that might’ve found that spurious piece of information interesting at the time is transparently the one it has in the cross hairs now; and in that sense, the convertible version is merely the pretty-boy Evoque carried to its logical conclusion. An acceptable rationale though does not a great car make, otherwise the Mini Coupe, Roadster, Paceman, Countryman and Clubman would’ve been more deserving of our praise.
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abkq
The article lists the many
soldi
Shockingly UnderEngineered
And God help those unlucky to sit in the back in event of a rollover. Mind you, at 1600kg, I think the guys in front will also be in danger when the A pillar gives way too.
TS7
soldi wrote: Oh dear; by the
Explosively deployed rollover hoops will help. Perhaps they weren't in the press release Autocar published? They are mentioned elsewhere, on another motoring magazine website.
soldi
Be my guest
Citytiger
soldi wrote: Please be my
Oh please give it a rest, Landrover reliability is no better or worse than any other manufacturer, it may have been in the past, but then again, if everything was as reliable as a VW (as the adverts used to say), the RAC would be the most profitable and busy company in the country.
jason_recliner
What a piece of crap
Overdrive
I thought Auto Express's 3
benjamino
Bizarre
foot of our stairs
Brilliant and rubbish
It also shows why land Rover, can't build a "land Rover" its no longer part of their DNA.
Paul73
now, with the springs,
That demonstrates just how little you guys understand vehicle dynamics
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