Range Rover Velar

Lumma reveals its take on the new Range Rover Velar

Lumma Design is one of the front-runners when it comes to customising Land Rover products, something that the British brand’s design chief clearly doesn’t appreciate. But the German tuner seemingly hasn’t taken notice, whipping the (virtual) covers off a wide body kit conceived for the recently revealed Velar.

Officially, this custom job is called the Lumma CLR GT Limited Edition and will help to mark the 30th anniversary of the design house.

Lumma Design says that it began work on this car shortly after the Velar’s official reveal in Geneva, and plans to continue fine-tuning until the end of 2017, when the finished product is revealed in the metal. Interestingly, it will initially be available as a limited edition model.

The redesign aims to give the Velar a more complete look by doing away with many of the production model’s crease lines, and also includes set of bold alloy wheels, a rear spoiler and some suitably intimidating tailpipes.

The standard Range Rover Velar will be in South Africa by the end of this year with four engine options, while a fifth 221 kW petrol derivative is scheduled to arrive in 2018.

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/lumma-reveals-its-take-on-the-new-range-rover-velar/

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Range Rover Velar - 3rd/4th Quarter of 2017

The very stylish new Range Rover Velar will be available locally before year-end. Based on the underpinnings of the award-winning Jaguar F-PACE, the Velar fills the gap between the Evoque and Range Rover Sport. Expect a similar line-up of engines to what you'll find in the F-PACE. Find out more about the Velar here.

http://www.cars.co.za/motoring_news/update-cars-coming-to-sa-in-2017/42927/
 
542bhp Range Rover Velar SVR takes to the Nurburgring - on video

Hot Land Rover spotted testing at the Nürburgring; it’s due for launch next year with a supercharged V8 engine

Land Rover’s Range Rover Velar SVR will launch next year as a supercharged V8 SUV brute to rival the BMW X6 M.

Using the same 5.0-litre engine as Range Rover Sport SVR, it’s expected to have 542bhp and 502lb ft of torque on tap, enabling a 0-62mph time of around 4.2sec.

Applying SVR weight-saving measures to the aluminium-based Velar should also bring its kerbweight down to about 1800kg. While still no featherweight, that would still make it a significant 465kg lighter than the hottest X6.

The Velar SVR will also get a unique chassis set-up that has been honed on the Nürburgring, as confirmed by a recent sighting at the famous German circuit. The set-up will be headed by new performance settings for the car’s standard-fit adaptive dampers.

The ‘Ring sighting also shows where the main aesthetic changes will be applied. Beneath the camouflage, the test car’s rear bumper looks to have gained a diffuser between two new exhaust exits, and it also has new, lighter wheels.

Along with the BMW X6 M, the Jaguar F-Pace SVR, which is due to launch this year, will be a rival from the same stable as the Velar. That car is expected to get the same V8 but in more potent F-Type SVR specification, meaning it’ll produce 567bhp and be capable of 0-62mph in less than 4.0sec.

Despite their similarities, the SVR F-Pace and Velar models will focus on slightly different areas of the market, with the Jaguar prioritising on-road performance and the Velar retaining more of its off-road ability.

Pricing will likely start at around £90,000 for the Velar SVR, making it more than £7500 cheaper than the larger Range Rover Sport SVR. The car is expected to be revealed early next year.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/542bhp-range-rover-velar-svr-takes-nurburgring-video

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Velar vs Velar: what difference does 50 years make?

Taking a ride in Range Rover's newest and most important car, and the little-known prototype that foreshadowed it five decades ago

“A gentleman is never exact,” or so I’ve heard it said.

Perhaps that means his car needn’t be either. This speedometer certainly isn’t. Having accelerated in unhurried but generous style away from the car park of an English country pub and up through its four manually selected gears, the ‘classic’ Range Rover Velar prototype I’m driving can’t decide if I’m doing 49mph, 55, or something in between.

Before the introduction of the latest addition to the Range Rover family, I’d doubt if more than a handful of people in the world remembered there ever was a Velar. The model identity was a ruse: an invention of Rover’s development engineers of the 1960s, who wanted to disguise the origins of their prototypes for the very first Range Rover, and who hit upon the direct Latin translation of ‘I hide’ – which it just happened to be possible to spell using letters already used on the front of a Land Rover.

Opinions differ on how many Velar prototypes were built between 1967 and 1970, but our Land Rover source reckons that only nine are still in existence. And yet, however rare and little-known, the Velar fathered the original Range Rover, which has since fathered the Range Rover brand, and so using that moniker as an anchor for an entirely new product with no direct antecedent is a clever way to borrow a bit of historical authenticity.

And, a cynic might argue, a new Range Rover product whose mechanical basis is fairly widely know to have been found within sister brand Jaguar’s technical armoury could certainly do with every bit of added authenticity it can get, couldn’t it?

So, can the Velar connection be anything other than superfluous? Perhaps. Remember that the Range Rover sprung out of an earlier project to develop a ‘Road Rover’; and that the new Velar is defined as the most road-focussed modern Range Rover model of them all.

The original one is from a time before the ever was a Range Rover. The defining SUV type it was translating was the Land Rover’s. And it’s certainly much easier to drive, and more manageable on the road, than the car that came to be known as the Land Rover Defender.

To a modern perspective, it’s the luxury and refinement we associate with a Range Rover that’s most obviously missing. The Velar has a medium-heavy clutch pedal and a long-levered and pretty stubborn four-speed manual gearbox, and neither likes to be rushed.

Coming from the days before the Range Rover’s 3.5-litre V8 was even fuel-injected, never mind enlarged, the Velar’s engine produces a pretty modest 130bhp – but because the car’s gearing is chosen to make that enough off-road as well as on it, it rarely seems to labour. There’s easily enough torque to leave the car in top gear and let it pick up from low revs and town speeds, which it’ll do willingly and smoothly – but slowly.

The steering is slow: lighter and more manageable than an old Land Rover's (it must have felt like being spoiled at the time) and surprisingly easygoing at parking speeds. It's undeniably vague around the dead-ahead at road speeds, though, and requiring plenty of input for cornering.

Body roll’s pronounced, but there’s a decent underlying grip level, creditable handling and good road speed stability. A much more supple and sophisticated ride than you’d have found on a contemporary Land Rover, too.

And what of the new Velar? We won’t drive it for another few weeks – but Land Rover has just been good enough to let me ride passenger in the car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. To suggest it seems in any meaningful way similar to the original would be a convenient but transparent fib. Obviously, Land Rover wouldn’t be daft enough to introduce a modern car that was anything like a fifty-year-old car to drive, and nor should it.

But you could certainly call these cars answers to the same question posed twice – once half a century after the other. The new Velar plainly has excellent, modern Range Rover level refinement, an isolated and serene ride, an interior design that can be considered absolutely cutting-edge, and handling dynamism made possible by material and suspension technology unthought-of in 1967.

But there’s a flavour of the same imperious view down the road in the new car as the old one has. And in the old one, you can sense the genesis of that filtered, isolating, low-altitude but still intimate relationship with the Tarmac that Range Rovers have always had – and that the new Velar looks set to develop in very interesting ways.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...r-vs-velar-what-difference-does-50-years-make

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2017 Range Rover Velar reader review | What Car?

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Range Rover Velar review | Is Land Rover's new SUV a match for the Porsche Macan? | Autocar

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Range Rover Velar review: has Jaguar Land Rover still got the Midas touch? - Auto Express

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2017 Range Rover Velar review | Is Land Rover's latest SUV a hit? | What Car? first drive

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Range Rover Velar 2017 review

Should I buy one?

Given all that, why, then, the little nagging doubt? The four-star rating that feels solid, but not outstanding. Days after driving it, I’m still not sure; for which, reader, I apologise. Perhaps it’s the 50mph roads. Perhaps it’s some of those interior touches, which make the Velar feel less complete than its design suggests inside.

Or, and this is equally likely, it’s that the two Velars I’ve driven – an R-Dynamic HSE diesel and a 376bhp petrol in First Edition trim – cost £70,530 and £85,450 respectively.

And at that money, for all the glitz, for all the showroom appeal, I’d rather sit myself in the even more refined, even more capable, Range Rover Sport. Style is great and all, but a Range Rover is about substance. There’s enough of it lower down the range. But up here, Range Rover is pushing the boundaries of this platform’s qualities.

Yet these are trims and prices to where loads of buyers will flock. I guess they’re paying for less tangible things; and I guess you can’t blame Land Rover for letting them.

RANGE ROVER VELAR 3.0D R-DYNAMIC HSE

Price £70,530 Engine V6, 2993cc, diesel Power 296bhp at 4000rpm Torque 516lb ft at 1500-1750rpm Gearbox 8-spd automatic Kerb weight 1959kg Top speed 150mph 0-60mph 6.1sec Economy 44.1mpg CO2/tax band 167g/km, 32% Rivals BMW X6, Porsche Macan

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-revie...ar/first-drives/range-rover-velar-2017-review

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First Range Rover Velar aftermarket kit on sale now

The first aftermarket kit for the Range Rover Velar is on sale now, with first deliveries of completed cars due in December.

Produced by Milton Keynes-based Urban Automotive, the so-called Velar GTS kit includes changes to bodywork, as well as new alloy wheels and a switchable valve exhaust system.

Urban Automotive has produced carbonfibre front and rear bumpers, with new designs that are more aggressive than the standard parts. There is also a new front splitter, as well as bespoke daytime running lights.

Wheel arch extensions are added along with 23in forged alloy wheels, widening the car’s stance. Enlarged, aluminium exhaust surrounds add to the car’s increased scale.

Urban Automotive has received 14 orders for cars already, and expects its first finished examples to reach customers by December. No pricing has been released at this stage. The standard Velar costs from £44,830.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/first-range-rover-velar-aftermarket-kit-sale-now

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Local pricing for the Range Rover Velar announced

Land Rover South Africa has announced local pricing for the new Range Rover Velar, opening the order books across the country.

Pricing for the fourth model in the Range Rover family (positioned between the Evoque and Range Rover Sport) starts at R947 700 and stretches through to R1 539 800, with the first deliveries set to take place in the fourth quarter of 2017.

The newcomer will be available locally in Velar and Velar R-Dynamic variants, with four specification levels (base, S, SE and HSE) offered across each. A limited edition Velar “First Edition” will also be available during the first year of sale, with Land Rover saying it will be fitted with “every available option” as standard.

The brand says a total of 17 wheel designs, 13 exterior paints and three exterior trim packs will be offered. Inside, meanwhile, there will be a choice of 15 material finishes.

All models will be fitted as standard with four-corner air suspension, an eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive. Engine options will include the automaker’s four-cylinder and six-cylinder petrol and diesel engines. Read more about the Velar here.

Pricing:

Range Rover Velar 2,0 diesel 132 kW Base: R947 700
Range Rover Velar 2,0 diesel 132 kW S: R1 028 600
Range Rover Velar 2,0 diesel 132 kW SE: R1 077 900
Range Rover Velar 2,0 diesel 132 kW HSE: R1 172 400

Range Rover Velar 2,0 diesel 177 kW Base: R1 010 400
Range Rover Velar 2,0 diesel 177 kW S: R1 091 300
Range Rover Velar 2,0 diesel 177 kW SE: R1 140 600
Range Rover Velar 2,0 diesel 177 kW HSE: R1 235 100

Range Rover Velar 2,0 petrol 184 kW Base: R947 700
Range Rover Velar 2,0 petrol 184 kW S: R1 028 600
Range Rover Velar 2,0 petrol 184 kW SE: R1 077 900
Range Rover Velar 2,0 petrol 184 kW HSE: R1 172 400

Range Rover Velar 3,0 diesel 221 kW Base: R1 089 000
Range Rover Velar 3,0 diesel 221 kW S: R1 169 800
Range Rover Velar 3,0 diesel 221 kW SE: R1 219 100
Range Rover Velar 3,0 diesel 221 kW HSE: R1 313 700

Range Rover Velar 3,0 petrol 280 kW Base: R1 099 400
Range Rover Velar 3,0 petrol 280 kW S: R1 180 300
Range Rover Velar 3,0 petrol 280 kW SE: R1 229 600
Range Rover Velar 3,0 petrol 280 kW HSE: R1 324 100

Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 diesel 132 kW Base: R980 500
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 diesel 132 kW S: R1 061 300
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 diesel 132 kW SE: R1 110 600
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 diesel 132 kW HSE: R1 205 200

Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 diesel 177 kW Base: R1 043 200
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 diesel 177 kW S: R1 124 000
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 diesel 177 kW SE: R1 173 300
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 diesel 177 kW HSE: R1 267 900

Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 petrol 184 kW Base: R980 500
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 petrol 184 kW S: R1 061 300
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 petrol 184 kW SE: R1 110 600
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 2,0 petrol 184 kW HSE: R1 205 200

Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 3,0 diesel 221 kW Base: R1 121 800
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 3,0 diesel 221 kW S: R1 202 600
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 3,0 diesel 221 kW SE: R1 251 900
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 3,0 diesel 221 kW HSE: R1 346 400

Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 3,0 petrol 280 kW Base: R1 132 200
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 3,0 petrol 280 kW S: R1 213 100
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 3,0 petrol 280 kW SE: R1 262 400
Range Rover Velar R-Dynamic 3,0 petrol 280 kW HSE: R1 356 900

Range Rover Velar First Edition 3,0 diesel 221 kW: R1 529 300
Range Rover Velar First Edition 3,0 petrol 280 kW: R1 539 800

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/local-pricing-for-the-range-rover-velar-announced/
 
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