Longer, lower, electric
The Range Rover Velar has been the ‘beautiful boy’ in Land Rover’s Range Rover lineup since 2017, but not much has changed about the car since then. That will change soon as the Velar follows in the footsteps of the Porsche Macan.
Sleek lines, flat light units, a long nose and enormous wheels: it’s hard not to find the Range Rover Velar beautiful. The Velar was introduced in 2017 and had to fill the gap between the Range Rover Evoque and the Range Rover Sport. Since then, there have certainly been some updates, facelifts and new versions, but there was never any major news in the Velar domain. However, work is indeed being done on a successor. That successor already showed itself in the spring, but hasn’t been seen since. Until now. The car remains visually more or less faithful to the original, although the new Velar appears to become even lower and longer.
Technically, everything will be different, because we’re counting on the fully electric Range Rover that hasn’t arrived to date. Actually incomprehensible, since sister brand Jaguar has had a seemingly suitable platform in-house for years with the i-Pace. However, with the new Velar, the British are going bigger, and there will be a platform with which JLR can make a strong electric push in all kinds of segments. For example, there will also be a tougher, less polished variant under the Defender flag, which apparently will immediately succeed the Discovery Sport.
So the Velar is going electric and will thus follow the Porsche Macan. While the choice for ‘fully electric’ hasn’t worked out fantastically for Porsche, we foresee less trouble with the second smallest Range Rover. After all, the starting point here is a model that due to its age is no longer a top performer anyway, so an electric successor here offers more chance of sales increases.