It’s official: an EV may save you dosh, but it’s no steal

If you’ve crossed over to the spark side, congratulations! You’ve ditched combustion and now are free to pursue a motoring life unshackled from the angst of fuel queues, GBH from unanticipated mechanical bills and those ever-looming existential questions that nag anyone who doesn’t have a second home on planet B.  But there must, surely, be […]

RANGE ROVER EVOQUE D180 R-DYNAMIC HSE AWD AUTOMATIC

Final Test You tend to get a very different perspective on a car when it clocks up most of its mileage crawling in city traffic, and so it has proved with the Evoque, which has spent much of its time confined to London. It quickly became evident that out on the motorway the D180 is […]

Range Rover Evoque R-Dynamic HSE D180 AWD Automatic

Fourth Test Did you know that of just 16 highly prized official Dark Sky Reserves worldwide, five are here in the UK? And that the latest – Cranborne Chase – was added only last year? That puts this wild and remote Area of Natural Beauty (AONB) – straddling Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon and Dorset – right […]

RANGE ROVER EVOQUE D180 R-DYNAMIC HSE AWD AUTOMATIC

Third Test It’s not every day that Range Rover gets to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and it’s certainly not every day you get to star in the celebrations. But that’s what happened when – as temporary keeper of the Evoque – I was invited to a party with a difference. ‘Arrive in the Ballroom Car […]

RANGE ROVER EVOQUE D180 R-DYNAMIC HSE AWD AUTOMATIC

REPORT 2 When the alarm went off at 23.07 (precisely), I had just dozed off. So, it seems, had my neighbours. It had been a long, hot, sticky, sleepless week in central London during a punishing heat wave. Half-dreaming, I fell out of bed, fumbling for my shorts, the car key and front door key […]

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