RANGE ROVER VELAR BLACK ANDROID

The original Range Rover was famed for its hose-clean interior: the fact you can choose a Velar with Windsor leather door armrests tells you all you need to know. It’s finished in such posh carpet, you’ll certainly think twice before letting a muddy dog jump in there. Space in the back is ample, if not lavish, and the boot is big enough.

RANGE ROVER VELAR BLACK ANDROID

It’s called Touch Pro Duo, and it’s gorgeous (particularly as it now has Apple CarPlay and Android Auto). Its centrepiece is the dual-screen console, with high-res displays instead of buttons. The dashboard is also elegant, continuing the minimalist theme. The white’s a bold choice, but overall the interior is exceptional Available to lease Lease NowĪlthough it’s not overtly 4×4-rugged, you still get a raised SUV-like feel inside the Velar. All Velars get powered, heated leather seats, but it’s even softer Windsor leather in the HSE. It has the necessary 20-inch wheels and a sparkling Meridian surround-sound stereo. Land Rover offers several model grades: S, SE and HSE (ignore the base Velar, which is so meanly stripped out it shatters the dream of the pretty body as soon as you open the door – and has hideous 18-inch wheels). Alternatively, you can go for a ‘black pack’, but I think this takes away some of the Velar’s charm. Particularly when you pick one of the pretty light metallic colours that suit it so well. You can choose to have some of the inlays and bonnet scoop finishers in bronze-effect trim, which is a lovely look. Wheels: go big or go home Available to lease Lease Now You do need bigger wheels to make the most of it, mind: cheaper versions look like they’re sat on cotton reels, which spoils the effect. It’s more curvaceous than the upright, blocky SUV norm, with a handsome and distinctive front end sweeping back into a body that shares more design cues with a posh speedboat than a gnarly 4×4. It looks long, lithe and elegantly minimalist: the design team call it ‘reductionism’, taking away all the fuss and painstakingly sculpting what’s left. Grown out of the Range Rover Evoque? The Velar is the sensible next step – and, as we’ll see, it’s a talented enough machine in its own right to justify its place.Įven if you haven’t fallen for it just by looking at the photos, you will do when you see the Velar in the metal (most of which is lightweight, eco-friendly aluminium). There’s also now a range-topping, and slightly pointless, V8-engined SVO model. Only a single five-seat bodystyle is available, with either standard, R-Dynamic (which has a sportier emphasis) or Black Edition trimmings. Ambitious prices have been dialled back, and it’s now found its place in the market. Land Rover launched the Range Rover Velar in 2017. Looking good from the moment it was launched Available to lease Lease Now

For men, it seems only the steroidal Sport will do. Land Rover data shows it to be a more female-friendly car. It’s an appreciably larger machine than the Evoque, but doesn’t have the Sport’s sheer bulk, so is less intimidating to drive. The Velar fits into the gap between the Range Rover Evoque and Range Rover Sport. The muddiest a Velar will likely get is when you use the overflow car park field at Soho Farmhouse. It seems strange to be saying that about a big, mud-plugging SUV, but such is the Range Rover brand these days: a luxury car company, rather than a rugged 4×4 maker (leave that to parent brand, Land Rover). The Range Rover Velar is an achingly pretty car.

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