RE: Range Rover Velar - full details

[Brilad]

riviera said:

Great, another species of bully wagon coming (very) close to your rear bumper on Hale Road...

tell me about it.

I loved it when they all but disappeared in 2008. Back again now though. These are the same twunts who steam up High Elm Rd, taking the L hander in the middle of the carriageway and who are always surprised to find road users travelling in the opposite direction. Usually at school chucking out time as well. One for the nob thread sorry!

[PhantomPH]

sjn2004 said:

FourWheelDrift said:

I've just specced one up on the RR site for £108,661.00

Speccing up a Velar vs RRS, virtually the same price with the same options/engines. How can Pistonheads say it fills "white space" in the range. The Velar looks better also.

This. Although it's also LR who are saying it fills the space. I also spec'd one to the same level as the RRS I had on order and the price was almost pound-for-pound identical. WTF?? Could the RRS be discontinued at some point...?

ETS: "Same level" is that basically I chose the same colour, wheels and options that I would put on any LR product (including the Evoques I have spec'd before). The engine was mid-range diesel to give the same on paper performance as the RRS.

Edited by PhantomPH on Thursday 2nd March 08:59

[Walter Sobchak]

It doesn't seem to be filling a space between the Evoke and RRS at those price points, have to admit the interior is gorgeous, think the only RR I'd have is the FF now though.
Also why no supercharged V8?, if people have messed around on the configurator and come up with prices over £100k, that's SVR territory!.

[jhonn]

I like the interior, and although its exterior looks are impressive and cohesive I find them just a bit too 'flash' - owning and driving one of these you would certainly be making a statement, and that's just not the way I roll.
It does make the high-end offerings from Audi, BMW, Merc, etc look rather dowdy; 'Cool Britannia' continues.

So, not for me then, but I'm sure that it will sell well, and its great to hear of another British success story.

[Cotic]

VGTICE said:

It's just a rebadged slightly tweaked F-Pace, isn't it.

As is the Macan over the Q5. Clearly the F-Pace has a great platform judging by the reviews; JLR would be crackers if they didn't get more than one car out of it. This looks brilliant to my eyes, both inside and out.

[Nors]

Whilst very nice, it looks to me like a scaled up Evoque. Can't see what the fuss is about.

[craigjm]

Walter Sobchak said:

Also why no supercharged V8?

That engine is still built by Ford and sold to JLR which is why they have been designing and launching their own engines to finally cut the Ford ties nearly a decade after TATA purchased them.

[JonnyVTEC]

craigjm said:

That engine is still built by Ford and sold to JLR which is why they have been designing and launching their own engines to finally cut the Ford ties nearly a decade after TATA purchased them.

Just like the V6 petrol in it then?

[craigjm]

JonnyVTEC said:

craigjm said:

That engine is still built by Ford and sold to JLR which is why they have been designing and launching their own engines to finally cut the Ford ties nearly a decade after TATA purchased them.

Just like the V6 petrol in it then?

Yes but expect that to disappear from the range within 12 months and be replaced with the 3.0 petrol Ingenium which wasnt quite ready for the launch.

[David87]

Lovely.

[JiggyJaggy]

Stunning. New DD for sure. Looks crisp and should have been the RRS in my opinion. Love the interior.

[rudler]

I think it looks fantastic but there is one 'first' on this model that nobody has mentioned - it must be the first Land-Rover product that is not available in green.
50 shades of grey is so last century, please stop it car manufacturers!

[craigjm]

rudler said:

50 shades of grey is so last century, please stop it car manufacturers!

Yeah the colour palette is Zzzzzz

[FourWheelDrift]

rudler said:

I think it looks fantastic but there is one 'first' on this model that nobody has mentioned - it must be the first Land-Rover product that is not available in green.
50 shades of grey is so last century, please stop it car manufacturers!

Even the blue option is more of a grey colour to me.

[soupdragon1]

Who's going to buy a RRS now that this is available? - a much nicer looking car in my opinion.

Will be interesting to see how the 2L basic engine holds up in this car, although it should be a bit lighter than a typical RR - have they said what the total weight will be?

[Freds]

I have to say thats's rather nice, another forum I'm a member of, incontinence anonymous, states a typical price will be 61k, it will be interesting to see how it squares up against the Macan, my mate has a petrol turbo version of that and it's superb.

[Dan_1981]

Just had a poke around one.

Looks good, although the colour this one was in was not one i'd choose.

Interior looks good and the infotainment looks good - very few buttons cluttering dash / control area.

Good Job it seems.

[leakymanifold]

Can someone check how the heated seats are turned on - this seems to be the major gripe people have with current JLR products, that they have to go into a sub menu! of all things holy! I need warm bottom, IMMEDIATELY

[GTEYE]

soupdragon1 said:

Who's going to buy a RRS now that this is available? - a much nicer looking car in my opinion.

Will be interesting to see how the 2L basic engine holds up in this car, although it should be a bit lighter than a typical RR - have they said what the total weight will be?

+1 makes the RRS look rather frumpy.

A kind of RRSS, so to speak.

[rudler]

leakymanifold said:

Can someone check how the heated seats are turned on - this seems to be the major gripe people have with current JLR products, that they have to go into a sub menu! of all things holy! I need warm bottom, IMMEDIATELY

On my 2016 R-R instead of turning the heating control knob you press it inwards and then turn it which activates the seat heating, a faster hot bottom results!