Range rover evoque 20129/22/2023 ![]() So, for my annual road trip to the south of France I borrowed editor Phil’s Evoque 2.2 SD4. The Evoque is a radical departure car – it’s that moment when your favourite band changes musical direction you want to like it, but… I’m a fan of both Range Rover and Land Rover, but that doesn’t make me biased here. Month 6 running a Range Rover Evoque: The Evoque’s family car credentials And we wish our snapper luck trying to flog those shots on the open market… ![]() Editor Phil McNamara was visiting Gaydon to interview Aston Martin CEO Ulrich Bez and was photographed by our man. Yes – he’d papped our very own long-term test Evoque by mistake. Today his telephoto lens fell on a Range Rover Evoque. Friendly operative James booked OY12 OTE in for the following week. ![]() I clocked them at the ‘500 miles to go’ warning and called Marshall Land Rover Peterborough. The Evoque’s first service interval is after 12 months or 16,000 miles, and it’s taken CAR nine months to trigger those portentous words. Especially when Audi beautifully presents detailed info like navigation directions or iPod track listings in such a spot. The Evoque’s exterior design is a triumph, its cockpit wraps eye-catching shapes in cool materials, but that iPhone-sized screen is a creative wasteland. Especially when those two words are presented in the Evoque’s central instrument binnacle, whose characters could be twinned with a ZX Spectrum circa 1984. ![]() Two words that, in the desirability stakes, could be twinned with ‘dental check-up’ or ‘tax return’. Month 9 running a Range Rover Evoque: the Evoque heads in for its first service My missus prefers the far cheaper option of watching the inside of her eyelids, however. We’ve barely used the front screen’s £600 dual-view capability, where the passenger can watch a movie while the driver sees only in-car info. It has the same effect as getting your ears syringed: everything sounds loud, rich and bassy. Anyway, every rear passenger has appreciated the glass roof as compensation for the narrow sideglass, so that’s £1290 well spent. ![]()
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