![]() ![]() Our Velar arrived in HSE trim, which a lot of buyers will consider a minimum requirement for a car that looks like it has not long stepped off of a motor show stand. ![]() Whether or not that level of attention is actually deserved on a fitness-for-purpose basis will be the second objective of this road test. Taken without any additional context, those facts alone ought to guarantee the kind of feverish new-buyer interest that the Evoque generated in 2011. Range Rover Velar First Edition P380 2017 first drive.Range Rover Velar P300 2018 first drive.Range Rover Velar D180 2019 UK first drive.Range Rover Velar P400e 2021 UK first drive.Taking a view on the philosophy behind the Velar, and where it leaves Gaydon, will be one objective of this road test. In this garb, perhaps even more so than the stoutly mechanical Evoque, the Velar smacks of a modern, immodestly expensive crossover – the kind of car many would describe as the antithesis of Land Rover’s usual off-road-capability-centric modus operandi. Naturally, four-wheel drive and Land Rover’s Terrain Response system are both standard, even at the base of the line-up – but so, too, are four-cylinder engines, coil suspension and an usually low ride height for a Range Rover. Its predominately aluminium platform is the same architecture used by the latest Jaguar XE and Jaguar XF. The Jaguar F-Pace is an even closer blood relative, despite starting at £10,000 less than the Velar. Because this new Range Rover is unequivocally car-based. Unlike its full-sized siblings, the fourth addition to the Range Rover line-up is the product of something other than Gaydon’s full-fat approach to SUVs. But our preferred description refers to more than just the Velar’s dimensions. ![]()
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