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The Land Rover Range Rover Sport, generally known as the Range Rover Sport, is a mid-size luxury SUV produced by Land Rover, later Jaguar Land Rover. The first generation (codename: L320) started production in 2005, and was replaced by the second generation Range Rover Sport (codename: L494) in 2013, which was replaced by the third generation Range Rover Sport (codename: L461) in 2022.
Heisenberg
Tarmac Traveler
2017 Range Rover Velar targets Porsche Macan
Land Rover’s new SUV-coupé is just months away from launch and will slot into the model line-up between the Evoque and the Range Rover Sport
The Range Rover Velar will soon be unveiled as the most radical-looking Range Rover in history: a mid-sized SUV-coupé designed to lay down the toughest challenge yet to Porsche’s all-conquering Macan and rivals such as the BMW X6 and Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupé.
The new model, which imaginatively revives the Velar name used on original secret Range Rover prototypes in the late 1960s, is designed to plug the price gap between the £40,000 Evoque and the £80,000 Range Rover Sport.
Due for official launch at the Geneva motor show in three weeks’ time, the Velar (whose name means ‘veil’ or ‘cover’ in Italian) will be built alongside the Range Rover Sport and Jaguar F-Pace in the ultra-modern aluminium body and assembly plant in Solihull, West Midlands. JLR insiders are confident that rising demand will drive Land Rover vehicle production to new record levels.
Initially dubbed ‘Evoque XL’, the new five-seater is understood to be most closely related under the skin to the Jaguar F-Pace, with which it shares JLR’s IQ platform. It will be powered by a range of north-south engines rather than the transverse units used in the Halewood-manufactured Evoque. The F-Pace relationship suggests that the Velar will be a little longer (and probably roomier) than the Macan. Every version of the new model will be four-wheel drive.
The Velar’s generous ground clearance and short front and rear overhangs suggest it will be a capable performer off road. But like the F-Pace, it won’t have the separate low-range gear set featured on more expensive, more specialist Land Rovers and Range Rovers. Despite that, the car will be positioned at the centre of the ‘lifestyle vehicle’ market, with a greater focus on urban use than off-road performance.
Given the runaway success of the Evoque, which has been instrumental in growing Land Rover’s global sales from 348,388 units in 2013 to 427,122 last year, the company expects demand from customers moving up the range from the Evoque to swell total volume well beyond 500,000 units a year.
One major point of difference between the Velar and its German rivals is likely to be the interior. Land Rover design boss Gerry McGovern’s team has a track record of designing increasingly high-quality cabins, while simplifying the control and switch layouts, whereas Porsche has a more comprehensive, aircraft-like approach.
The Velar’s interior will progress further in areas where McGovern believes his cars already have an edge. The Velar will be powered by JLR’s extensive array of four-cylinder and six-cylinder engines, both diesel and petrol. The four-pot units will be from the established Ingenium range, built at JLR’s recently expanded Wolverhampton engine production facility, about 30 miles north-west of Solihull.
JLR will launch the Velar with the Ford-sourced V6s currently used throughout its range but will replace them during the model’s life with own-design Ingenium in-line six-cylinder petrol and diesel units. These 3.0-litre engines are modular versions of the 2.0-litre four-cylinder Ingenium units with two extra cylinders.
Although it is possible the Velar could use the electric powertrain JLR is developing for its upcoming Jaguar I-Pace SUV, it is more likely to feature a hybrid version. Offering a hybrid, especially a plug-in, would cater for buyers who live in the megacities of Europe, Asia and the US, which are getting ever closer to specifying zeroemissions vehicles for their most congested areas.
JLR already has a hybrid powertrain in the range, used in the 340bhp 3.0 SDV6 HEV Range Rover Sport, but the Velar is more likely to use a newly developed plug-in system based on the 295bhp four-cylinder Ingenium petrol engine. The company is also building its own hybrid electric motor, called the Electric Drive Module, expected to offer a real-world range of between 20 and 30 miles on battery power and to develop 201bhp and 332lb ft of torque, outputs well above those of the 113bhp electric motor used in the BMW X5 xDrive40e.
A range-topping highperformance variant could offer outstanding pace, particularly if Land Rover chooses to install its most powerful 542bhp supercharged 5.0-litre V8 engine in the Velar. The aluminium-bodied vehicle could weigh as little as 1800kg. If that target is achieved, it would give the Velar a significant advantage over the BMW X6 and Mercedes GLE Coupé. A V8- equipped Velar could be priced at around £90,000.
The same V8 engine is also earmarked for a planned F-Pace SVR, under development at JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations division at Oxford Road, near Coventry.
The new Velar reinforces the ‘Luxury’ pillar of Land Rover’s three-pronged vehicle strategy, along with the other models wearing Range Rover badges. It stands alongside a ‘Leisure’ pillar that includes the Discovery and Discovery Sport and a ‘Dual-purpose’ pillar that will remain dormant until the much-anticipated new Land Rover Defender arrives in 2019.
With the advent of the Velar, there will be four models in the Luxury pillar, two in Leisure and none in Dualpurpose — which rather lays bare JLR bosses’ view that fulfilling the market’s thirst for plush, upmarket SUVs and crossovers is the priority, before the company turns its attention to more utilitarian vehicles such as the Defender.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/2017-range-rover-velar-targets-porsche-macan
Land Rover’s new SUV-coupé is just months away from launch and will slot into the model line-up between the Evoque and the Range Rover Sport
The Range Rover Velar will soon be unveiled as the most radical-looking Range Rover in history: a mid-sized SUV-coupé designed to lay down the toughest challenge yet to Porsche’s all-conquering Macan and rivals such as the BMW X6 and Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupé.
The new model, which imaginatively revives the Velar name used on original secret Range Rover prototypes in the late 1960s, is designed to plug the price gap between the £40,000 Evoque and the £80,000 Range Rover Sport.
Due for official launch at the Geneva motor show in three weeks’ time, the Velar (whose name means ‘veil’ or ‘cover’ in Italian) will be built alongside the Range Rover Sport and Jaguar F-Pace in the ultra-modern aluminium body and assembly plant in Solihull, West Midlands. JLR insiders are confident that rising demand will drive Land Rover vehicle production to new record levels.
Initially dubbed ‘Evoque XL’, the new five-seater is understood to be most closely related under the skin to the Jaguar F-Pace, with which it shares JLR’s IQ platform. It will be powered by a range of north-south engines rather than the transverse units used in the Halewood-manufactured Evoque. The F-Pace relationship suggests that the Velar will be a little longer (and probably roomier) than the Macan. Every version of the new model will be four-wheel drive.
The Velar’s generous ground clearance and short front and rear overhangs suggest it will be a capable performer off road. But like the F-Pace, it won’t have the separate low-range gear set featured on more expensive, more specialist Land Rovers and Range Rovers. Despite that, the car will be positioned at the centre of the ‘lifestyle vehicle’ market, with a greater focus on urban use than off-road performance.
Given the runaway success of the Evoque, which has been instrumental in growing Land Rover’s global sales from 348,388 units in 2013 to 427,122 last year, the company expects demand from customers moving up the range from the Evoque to swell total volume well beyond 500,000 units a year.
One major point of difference between the Velar and its German rivals is likely to be the interior. Land Rover design boss Gerry McGovern’s team has a track record of designing increasingly high-quality cabins, while simplifying the control and switch layouts, whereas Porsche has a more comprehensive, aircraft-like approach.
The Velar’s interior will progress further in areas where McGovern believes his cars already have an edge. The Velar will be powered by JLR’s extensive array of four-cylinder and six-cylinder engines, both diesel and petrol. The four-pot units will be from the established Ingenium range, built at JLR’s recently expanded Wolverhampton engine production facility, about 30 miles north-west of Solihull.
JLR will launch the Velar with the Ford-sourced V6s currently used throughout its range but will replace them during the model’s life with own-design Ingenium in-line six-cylinder petrol and diesel units. These 3.0-litre engines are modular versions of the 2.0-litre four-cylinder Ingenium units with two extra cylinders.
Although it is possible the Velar could use the electric powertrain JLR is developing for its upcoming Jaguar I-Pace SUV, it is more likely to feature a hybrid version. Offering a hybrid, especially a plug-in, would cater for buyers who live in the megacities of Europe, Asia and the US, which are getting ever closer to specifying zeroemissions vehicles for their most congested areas.
JLR already has a hybrid powertrain in the range, used in the 340bhp 3.0 SDV6 HEV Range Rover Sport, but the Velar is more likely to use a newly developed plug-in system based on the 295bhp four-cylinder Ingenium petrol engine. The company is also building its own hybrid electric motor, called the Electric Drive Module, expected to offer a real-world range of between 20 and 30 miles on battery power and to develop 201bhp and 332lb ft of torque, outputs well above those of the 113bhp electric motor used in the BMW X5 xDrive40e.
A range-topping highperformance variant could offer outstanding pace, particularly if Land Rover chooses to install its most powerful 542bhp supercharged 5.0-litre V8 engine in the Velar. The aluminium-bodied vehicle could weigh as little as 1800kg. If that target is achieved, it would give the Velar a significant advantage over the BMW X6 and Mercedes GLE Coupé. A V8- equipped Velar could be priced at around £90,000.
The same V8 engine is also earmarked for a planned F-Pace SVR, under development at JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations division at Oxford Road, near Coventry.
The new Velar reinforces the ‘Luxury’ pillar of Land Rover’s three-pronged vehicle strategy, along with the other models wearing Range Rover badges. It stands alongside a ‘Leisure’ pillar that includes the Discovery and Discovery Sport and a ‘Dual-purpose’ pillar that will remain dormant until the much-anticipated new Land Rover Defender arrives in 2019.
With the advent of the Velar, there will be four models in the Luxury pillar, two in Leisure and none in Dualpurpose — which rather lays bare JLR bosses’ view that fulfilling the market’s thirst for plush, upmarket SUVs and crossovers is the priority, before the company turns its attention to more utilitarian vehicles such as the Defender.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/2017-range-rover-velar-targets-porsche-macan
tristatez28lt1
Tire Trailblazer
The midsize Velar will fill the gap between the Evoque and Range Rover Sport.
The success of the Range Rover Evoque is not without merit. In 2015, the company sold more than 14,000 examples, and in a three year span, total global sales for JLR rose from just over 348,000 to more than 427,000 last year. Hoping to capitalize on that success, the automaker will introduce a new SUV dubbed the Velar at the Geneva Motor Show.
Slotted between the Evoque and Range Rover Sport, the Velar will compete directly with SUVs like the Porsche Macan, Audi Q5, and others. According to Autocar, the proposed SUV will close the more than $25,000 price gap between the two, with an MSRP of around $50,000.
The SUV will be built alongside the Range Rover Sport and F-Pace at the company’s Solihull, West Midlands plant, and share a number of components with the Jaguar SUV. Most notably it will ride on the new IQ platform, which also underpins the XE sedan.
Power will come from a range of four- and six-cylinder gas and diesel engines, with the potential for pure electric or hybrid versions later on down the line. All four wheels will send power to the ground courtesy of an all-wheel-drive system, naturally.
The Velar will be bit longer, and a pinch taller than the F-Pace too, stretching just a few inches further out and up. Short front and rear overhangs suggest it will be capable both on and off road, per any good Land Rover product. The interior, meanwhile, will differ from that of its German competitors with more simplified control and switch layouts.
Doors open to the Geneva Motor Show on March 7, 2017.
The success of the Range Rover Evoque is not without merit. In 2015, the company sold more than 14,000 examples, and in a three year span, total global sales for JLR rose from just over 348,000 to more than 427,000 last year. Hoping to capitalize on that success, the automaker will introduce a new SUV dubbed the Velar at the Geneva Motor Show.
Slotted between the Evoque and Range Rover Sport, the Velar will compete directly with SUVs like the Porsche Macan, Audi Q5, and others. According to Autocar, the proposed SUV will close the more than $25,000 price gap between the two, with an MSRP of around $50,000.
The SUV will be built alongside the Range Rover Sport and F-Pace at the company’s Solihull, West Midlands plant, and share a number of components with the Jaguar SUV. Most notably it will ride on the new IQ platform, which also underpins the XE sedan.
Power will come from a range of four- and six-cylinder gas and diesel engines, with the potential for pure electric or hybrid versions later on down the line. All four wheels will send power to the ground courtesy of an all-wheel-drive system, naturally.
The Velar will be bit longer, and a pinch taller than the F-Pace too, stretching just a few inches further out and up. Short front and rear overhangs suggest it will be capable both on and off road, per any good Land Rover product. The interior, meanwhile, will differ from that of its German competitors with more simplified control and switch layouts.
Doors open to the Geneva Motor Show on March 7, 2017.
tristatez28lt1
Tire Trailblazer
Near-production ready Range Rover Velar spied leaving the factory
Rumors suggest it's based on the Jaguar F-Pace.
The crossover SUV segment is as hot as ever and there are no signs of it slowing anytime soon. Automakers continue to expand their portfolios in an effort to meet the ever-increasing demands from customers. In order to fill every niche and size, Land Rover is set to introduce a new model, the Range Rover Velar.
It is rumored to be based on the Jaguar F-Pace, which would place it below the Range Rover Sport and above the compact Range Rover Evoque. This puts it straight against not only Jaguar but competitors like the Porsche Macan and the Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class. Expect the Range Rover to lean more toward luxury than sport, as the F-Pace provides plenty of punch already. Like other offerings from Land Rover, expect the Range Rover Velar to possess a decent amount of off-road prowess.
This isn't our first look at the new model. While we originally thought it would be a BMW X6-like version of the larger Range Rover Sport, the model in these new photos removes much of the plastic camouflage and shows a more traditional roofline. The overall design appears to be a 4:5 scale version of the Range Rover Sport. The wheelbase is slightly shorter, as are the front and rear overhangs. The model also loses the fender-mounted air intakes.
There are a wide range of rumors as to what will power the Velar. If it is based on the F-Pace, look for two supercharged V6 engines and a diesel. We also wouldn't rule out the possibility of a hybrid or plug-in hybridvariant. The vehicle in these spy photos was coming from the factory, so it appears like the Velar is nearly ready for its debut. Look for it as soon as Geneva in March.
http://www.autoblog.com/2017/02/13/range-rover-velar-spy-shots-factory/
Rumors suggest it's based on the Jaguar F-Pace.
The crossover SUV segment is as hot as ever and there are no signs of it slowing anytime soon. Automakers continue to expand their portfolios in an effort to meet the ever-increasing demands from customers. In order to fill every niche and size, Land Rover is set to introduce a new model, the Range Rover Velar.
It is rumored to be based on the Jaguar F-Pace, which would place it below the Range Rover Sport and above the compact Range Rover Evoque. This puts it straight against not only Jaguar but competitors like the Porsche Macan and the Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class. Expect the Range Rover to lean more toward luxury than sport, as the F-Pace provides plenty of punch already. Like other offerings from Land Rover, expect the Range Rover Velar to possess a decent amount of off-road prowess.
This isn't our first look at the new model. While we originally thought it would be a BMW X6-like version of the larger Range Rover Sport, the model in these new photos removes much of the plastic camouflage and shows a more traditional roofline. The overall design appears to be a 4:5 scale version of the Range Rover Sport. The wheelbase is slightly shorter, as are the front and rear overhangs. The model also loses the fender-mounted air intakes.
There are a wide range of rumors as to what will power the Velar. If it is based on the F-Pace, look for two supercharged V6 engines and a diesel. We also wouldn't rule out the possibility of a hybrid or plug-in hybridvariant. The vehicle in these spy photos was coming from the factory, so it appears like the Velar is nearly ready for its debut. Look for it as soon as Geneva in March.
http://www.autoblog.com/2017/02/13/range-rover-velar-spy-shots-factory/
Centurion
Apex Apex Predator
This car will be appreciated by many Land Rover fans. Currently the gap between the Evoque and RR Sport is too big. You have the option of either buying a small underpowered SUV or a gas guzzling V6 one that's twice the price.
It's a shame for F-Pace who's 1 hour of fame and attention is going to come to an end.
It's a shame for F-Pace who's 1 hour of fame and attention is going to come to an end.
Fido
Quattro Commander
I don't understand this car. It's no very different from the RR Sport and maybe they could have done the Sport as this one, with the X6 shape. But, I'm right with you @Centurion, the gap between the Evoque and RR Sport is too big and they will have two cars in this gap, this Velar and the next generation from Evoque with a long model with 7 seats.
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