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With such a narrow glasshouse, claustrophobia must surely reign across the cabin.Īnd anyway, how will you reverse the thing peering back through that letterbox-sized rear window? And what will roundabouts be like with those huge mirrors obstructing front three-quarter vision? All very good questions.įor which, as it turns out, Gerry McGovern and his design team have styled some surprisingly effective answers. Where it can't possibly work, you think before opening the door, is on the inside.

Under the skin, around 30% of the underpinnings are Freelander-based, a car that's 100kgs heavier partly because it's slightly longer.Īt 4.35m, this Evoque is intentionally compact, only slightly longer than a Volkswagen Golf.īut it just looks right, with a shape that works wherever - on paper, in the showroom - on the Kings Road. Here's the kind of fantasy distortion you might see in a kids' comic, all big wheels, bloated wheelarches and impossibly shallow side window work.īoxiness is banished, as is the kind of bluff front end that gives a conventional Range Rover the aerodynamic efficiency of your average garden shed. You know from a glance that it's a Land Rover, though to begin with, it's hard to pin down exactly why. We first saw what was then called the LRX in 2008 and it's as arresting to look at now as it was back then. Not many cars make it from concept Motorshow prototype to production reality without being significantly watered down - but this is one of them. Here, we'll look at the 2011 to 2015 era models sold before the new-era Ingenium engines were introduced in 2015. Handling as satisfying as a sports coupe.Īnd economy to rival a 1.2-litre Fiat 500 citycar.Īll to be delivered with class-leading off road expertise. Luxurious room for four in a shape shorter than a Ford Focus. Land Rover's founders would have relished the challenge presented by the concept behind this car. To survive, the marque realised that it must reach new customers by radically changing brand perceptions dating all the way back to the Forties when company founder Maurice Wilks first sketched the original model in the sand at Red Wharf Bay in Angelsey. It's getting on for half a century since all-wheel driving was revolutionised by the Range Rover, a car now a class apart in the luxury 4x4 sector.īut what would that car look like re-invented in smaller form for very different Millennial times, an age in which fashion and frugality are as important as toughness and traction? Something like this we think, the Range Rover Evoque.Īt its launch in 2011, this car provided a watershed moment for the Land Rover brand every bit as important as the arrival of the original Range Rover in 1970, the Discovery in 1989 and the Freelander in 1997. If you know that you want to own the car and can afford higher monthly instalments, HP could work out cheaper overall than PCP. If you pay this lump sum, called the ‘balloon’ or ‘optional’ final repayment, including any purchase fee, you’ll own the car. When you enter into your finance agreement, the lender predicts what the car will be worth when the agreement ends. The car needs to be in good condition and within the agreed maximum mileage or there may be extra charges Most lenders will collect the car but you should check the terms of your finance agreement. You simply hand the car back to the lender.

New finance agreements are subject to status. If the actual market value of the car is higher than the lender’s predicted value, you can put the difference towards your deposit for a new agreement. You can swap the car for another one, subject to the terms of your agreement. You have three options when the agreement ends: