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Range Rover plots upsized Evoque
Premium British off-roader specialist plots Evoque XL to bridge gap between its smallest offering and the Range Rover SportLand Rover has implemented a protracted revamp of its Range Rover premium brand’s line-up over the past two years, rolling out the Evoque, all-new full-size Range Rover and Range Rover Sport in an intensive product onslaught.
However, the new-model barrage isn’t quite complete yet, as also in the works is a proposed Range Rover Evoque XL to bridge the gap between the existing compact Rangie and the recently released Range Rover Sport.
According to UK’s Autocar magazine, which quotes a report from analysts at Bernstein Research, the new model is codenamed L560 and is due to be launched in 2016.
Rather than being based on the Ford-derived LR-MS platform that underpins the current Evoque, the new derivative will reportedly use the all-new aluminium architecture that Jaguar is developing for its upcoming compact sedan, among other models.
According to the Bernstein report, the Evoque XL could notch up to 80,000 sales annually, and could be the most profitable offering among the five models (it plus four Jaguars) mooted for the new platform.
Autocar speculates the Evoque XL will be a pricier and more lucrative model than Jaguar’s proposed crossover, which was previewed by the C-X17 concept at last month’s Frankfurt motor show.
The magazine also suggests the new upsized Evoque will become Range Rover’s most fuel-efficient product, thanks to a combination of the lightweight aluminium architecture and the all-new ‘Hotfire’ four-cylinder engines currently being developed by JLR.
The existing Evoque is currently Range Rover’s biggest-selling model, with 1936 Australian sales until the end of September this year. It’s followed by the Range Rover Sport (1012 sales) and full-size Rangie (211).
In total, Range Rover-badged vehicles have found 3159 new owners until the end of September, while Land Rover-badged models have earned 3213 sales over the same period.
That said, the Landie line-up is now due for a thorough overhaul, as the Discovery 4 has been around since 2009, the Freelander 2 launched in 2007 (although it’s had a couple of updates along the way), while the Defender is positively ancient.
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