Evoques - They seem like very good value right now...

[TopPlonker]

I am looking for a car, I have a £5000 to £10,000 budget but would prefer to stick around the £5k mark.

I work from home so I'm not that bothered by MPG, I'd like something comfortable, I started looking at range rovers thinking an L322 would work...

But then I saw some evoques, they seem a bit smaller which I don't mind and the tax starts with a 3, not a 7.

But I'm regularly seeing 2015 to 2017 cars up for £5500 to £7500...

This to me seems very cheap, which makes me wonder why?

What am I missing?

Would buying one of these be stupid? Are there any particular engines to avoid or anything else?

cheers

[South tdf]

My mum had the early diesel one about 10 years ago (2.2 diesel from memory) when new and it was faultless. In contrast my partner had a 2020 one and it was the most unreliable car we ever had including several complete breakdowns on the motorway.

[Caddyshack]

I think the turbos can fail but not sure of other issues. I have a full fat Rangie and had an evoque courtesy car and I really liked it.

[Robertb]

The 2.2 is the old (more reliable) lump from the Freelander 2, Jag XF etc.

The 2.0 is the Ingenium which whilst more refined and economical seems very troublesome.

A friend has a ‘14 reg one for years and it’s been a good car.

[Richard-D]

I think they changed from the 2.2 to the 2.0 in 2015. I almost bought a Disco sport recently (same car pretty much) but the condition underneath put me off. There was quite a bit of rust in the sill seams. People make a big fuss about the power steering failing but it looks like a really easy DIY fix. I believe the mechanicals are pretty good (earlier models), the build quality of the shell was my concern.

[Giantt]

If you buy one for £5k...you'll definitely end up spending £10k

[TopPlonker]

Giantt said:

If you buy one for £5k...you'll definitely end up spending £10k

Well yeah, it's a JLR car. 😂

[XR]

A bit of a hidden gem with the 2 litre petrol, they are 240 or 290 bhp go well and not bad on fuel, same engine as Focus ST afaik.

Also available as a (rare) 3 door coupe up to about 2017 but we won't mention the convertible

[venster70]

'berrowmotors' as in 'Shifting Metal' on YouTube have just recently taken what appears to be nice one in with the 2.2 engine, although manual.
If you are local to their part of the world.
They seem like decent sellers as well.
Worth a look as in your price range!

[Decky_Q]

I have one and have found it to have decent poke and fine reliability wise.
It's a nice drive and cabin is great, remapped to 215 and goes well with no smoke and has been pretty fault free beyond consumables.

I wanted the most reliable version so went for a 2014 2.2 2wd with no adblue, manual tailgate, metal roof, dpf permanently repaired. It's a good car and has the bits I like from the range rover on a budget.

Everything was an optional extra so auto lights, autowipers, keyless entry, rear camera, sat nav even, was an option, these can mean some very sparse cars, and then some fully loaded, make sure it has all the ones you want (and no pan roof, power tailgate etc that will cause problems).

[macp]

We had a 67 plate TD4 HSE Sport. It had a surprising amount of shove. Nice place to sit. But we found the ride more firm than you would expect. Filling up Adblue is a little irritating. But certainly not insurmountable.