The Ford
Bronco may be coming back, but it looks like Land Rover will be
leading the charge in the return of full-size two-door SUVs.
The Range Rover SV Coupe is really happening and don’t
worry, this is not going to be a sequel to the three-door Evoque. Land Rover
has officially announced that it plans to build 999 two-door
full-size Range Rovers at its SV Technical Center skunkworks.
The good news is that the company plans to ship them
worldwide. Don’t expect to see a whole lot of them though, even in areas like
Manhattan and Rodeo Drive where Range Rovers typically roam and breed.
The SV Coupes will be hand built, hence the low production
target, and probably become instant collector’s items.
The full design and spec sheet are going to be unveiled at
the 2018 Geneva Auto Show. Specifically, on March 6. So far, the only official
image we’ve seen of the two-door Range is this top-down of the interior:
Not sure how I feel about the high-contrast Moon Pie color
motif on the seats, but that wood center console is ravishing and the shapes
look appropriately posh for what will almost assuredly be a six-figure vehicle.
I expect that the design will look a lot more elegant than
the 2004 Range Stormer concept and subsequent knockoffs made
by tuner companies. And it’s certainly going to be more stately than the cute
little Evoque.
SUV coupes like the two-door Bronco, Explorer and Blazer
used to be all over the place before SUV “coupes” like the X6 and GLE Coupe
took over. Blobs are in, bricks are out. But fashion is cyclical, and so too
with automotive design trends. “Personal SUVs” are back, baby!
Anyway, the Range Rover SV Coupe will obviously not be a direct
rival to the upcoming Ford Bronco, whatever form that nameplate ends up taking,
but I have to admit I didn’t expect Land Rover to beat the Big Three to
heralding the return of the “personal SUV.”
source: https://jalopnik.com/tag/range-rover
by Andrew P Collins
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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