Range Rover Evoque a stunner

In the flesh... the Ranger Rover Evoque.
Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

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  • Sharp lines of Evoque
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  • Long wait (2011)

The three-door luxury SUV not only gives Land Rover a solid entry into the burgeoning compact SUV category, but goes a long way to offset the big thirst - and volumous CO2 output - of its bigger models.

Land Rover Australia managing director Chris Popham says Evoque aims at a low 130g/km CO2 and an average of 4.9 litres/100km, thanks to a lightweight body and efficient engine.

It will come in all-wheel drive and front-wheel drive.

But the Evoque won’t be built until mid-2011 (in England) and demand already is so strong that Australia will be drip fed for the first few months.

A five-door version will be announced later this year.

Land Rover sales are up 33 per cent over 2009 and the marque has recorded its best-ever September - all highlights of its 40th anniversary.

Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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