![]() ![]() Switch to Dynamic mode, turn the shifter into Sport, and the ZF holds gears more like an F-Type. No matter the engine, power flows to all four wheels through a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission that shifts deftly through its ratios. You can opt for JLR’s tried and true 380-hp 3.0-liter supercharged V6. It checks off both the watch-Yo-Yo-Ma-play-Bach and camp-at-Lake-Tahoe boxes.Įight engine options are available on the Velar globally, and three come to the U.S., including a 247-horsepower 2.0-liter turbo-four, as well as a 180-hp, 2.0-liter turbodiesel four. Viewed from any angle, the Velar is balanced and rational, but also a stunner. Details such as flush, deployable door handles and the slimmest headlight clusters to come out of Land Rover add to its refinement. It’s purposeful with 34.4 cubic feet of cargo space behind the second row, yet has the dramatic flair of a concept car on the floor of Geneva. Its 113-inch wheelbase – the same as a Mercedes-Benz GLC – emphasizes functionality and gives the Velar a solid stance, but affords the interior a luxurious, airy quality that feels larger than it is. It starts elegantly with its long clamshell hood, then finishes with an assertive, powerful sloping rear. The Velar nods to its Range Rover heritage while carving out new territory all its own.įor all of its simplicity, the Velar has a lot going on – like this journalist, a study of contradiction. Neither a small version of the almost fullsize Range Rover Sport nor a large version of the Evoque, yet with irrefutable hints of both. The Velar nods to its Range Rover heritage while carving out new territory all its own.īorn of what the carmaker calls an exercise in “design reductionism,” the Velar at first glance you recognize, but can’t place it, like a wonderful bout of vehicular déjà vu. Nearly half a century later, the Velar name returns to fill a void for the British SUV-maker. Secrecy was in order because who at that time would believe that a luxury SUV would fly? When it made its debut in 1970, the moniker Velar disappeared and the Range Rover was revealed. But somewhere along the 51,000 miles of twisting Norwegian coastline I’ve just discovered my car self behind the wheel of the 2018 Land Rover Range Rover Velar.ĭerived from the Latin velare, which means to conceal, the name Velar was used for the original 1969 Range Rover prototype, a large, go-anywhere luxury SUV conceived in secrecy as the luxury extension of Land Rover. I’m one thing and also its opposite at the same time, meaning a blue-eyed, blond girl in a dress and also a tomboy who loves track days and mountain bikes. I’m a Pisces swimming in two directions at once. ![]() If you were a car, what would you be? Me? Tough question. ![]()
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