Well this is interesting. The Evoque is selling well and Range Rover are thinking seriously about releasing a convertible version of the three-door softroader. So seriously in fact that a twitterer in London spotted one blatantly running around streets of the capital. Top down and everything. I don’t want to like it, but I think I do.
The last sort-of-4×4-convertible was the Land Rover Freelander, which was awful. Just ask anyone who bought one. They also tended to fall over. However the new Evoque, which is an unlikely combination of Indian money from Tata, and interior design by Victoria Beckham, seems to have hit the spot with consumers across the globe. Whatever that spot might actually have been.
Details are sketchy at the moment but the droptop version will be based on the 3-door Evoque, with space for four. An electric cloth-top will be your roof and it will most likely be available in both petrol and diesel.
Range Rover plans to “unveil” the Evoque Convertible at the Geneva show which is just 10 days away now, to test public reaction. Although given that it’s this far along, we expect it to be in European showrooms by the end of they year, and probably in South Africa in early 2013.
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