Performance should be brisk in some versions, with a 221kW petrol engine offering 0-100km/h sprint of 6.3 seconds. The vehicle will switch between 2WD and all-wheel-drive automatically. A more serious hybrid, a plug-in, is planned and that will have an electric-only range of around 50km. The drivetrain is a nine-speed auto, and there will be a mild hybrid version which means a small battery charged by the car to supplement the petrol or diesel engine. Won’t be long before all mirrors disappear, and we see the world through screens! The same tech is deployed in the rear-view mirror.
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The big news is Clear Sight Ground View – you may remember that ‘transparent’ bonnet of Land Rover a while back? It works by using cameras to take images of the terrain, then screens recreate a view so it appears to the driver as if they’re looking though the bonnet. There will be twin screens, so finally we can have something like navigation and music displayed concurrently, and of course Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. After a few journeys, the Evoque will learn a driver’s preferred seating position, music preferences, temperature settings and commonly dialled numbers, based on which keyfob is used. Land Rover claims torque vectoring, but that’s a bit of a stretch as they say it involves torque splitting front to rear, whereas torque vectoring is really managing torque left and right across an axle.īeing a Land Rover, tech is a priority. The shocks are now Active Dynamic, so adjust instantly to the conditions this isn’t new tech, but it looks to be standard now. We can also expect improvements to the electronics such as brake traction control and hill descent control.
Land Rover continues to adapt its market-leading adaptive terrain system, ‘Terrain Response’, adding a new Comfort mode. CLICK TO READ THIS ARTICLE IN OUR FREE MAGAZINE HERE
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