Range Rover Velar

[Fragonard]

Seen one of these today. Never seen one before. Is it a new model or a new sport?

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

All the Land Rover models seem to have morphed into bland rovers . Boring .

 

[Mounty]

Recent-ish model. Not a sport.
Don't really think its got a place as too similar in appearance. I think it's a re bodied Jaguar F Pace.

 

[Kevtherev]

All the Land Rover models seem to have morphed into bland rovers . Boring .

Split windscreen for us and shorts

 

[DaveGrohl]

It's a Range Rover Sport that's been sat on. Absolutely pointless vehicle imo, but no doubt they'll be queueing round the block to buy them. Beyond me.

 

[blue power]

love my Velar

 

[Cowabunga]

Its not a Range Rover Sport, which is all alloy. This is based on, and built on the same line as the Jaguar F-Pace. My friend up the road has had one for maybe three or four months now. Very nice car and basically rear wheel drive biassed, although 4wd. Lovely two screen centre dash which has now been adopted for the RRS and full fat RR too. A bit on the expensive side once you opt for anything other than the poverty pack.
Go to the Land Rover web site and build one to suit yourself.

Just heard that another friend has just had delivery of a Bentayga. Looking forward to having a look at that soon. He's going to hire it out for weddings apparently. We'll see.

 

[Cowabunga]

View attachment 620300love my Velar

Those colours, including the black pack, really suit it. Isn't that grey a super-premium option? In other words, doesn't it cost about double the price of normal metallic? Or am I thinking of some other colour or even car?

 

[Mounty]

Just heard that another friend has just had delivery of a Bentayga. Looking forward to having a look at that soon. He's going to hire it out for weddings apparently. We'll see.

He'll need to. Around £200k specced up aren't they. Base model £160K ish ??

 

[Cowabunga]

He'll need to. Around £200k specced up aren't they. Base model £160K ish ??

That's right. I've heard, but its certainly not confirmed, that this one is specced up to £250k. Even if not, adding a few extras to basic spec soon gets it up to near £200k. However I only found out he'd had it at teatime today, although I knew he was going to get one and had myself been looking at the Bentley program on TV the other night and the brand's web site during the past week.
He works very hard and smart and deserves it.

He's not remotely a farmer of course.

 

[General-Lee]

View attachment 620300love my Velar

Like for the colour not squashed 4wd/jumped up estate car!

 

[Drillman]

It looks like a very expensive alternative to a subaru Forester to me.

 

[blue power]

The colour is corris grey, the Valar is more like a Audi A6 allroad then a Range Rover Sport. It's A great drive and not bad on fuel compared with a Sport

 

[Rowland]

It's a Range Rover Sport that's been sat on. Absolutely pointless vehicle imo, but no doubt they'll be queueing round the block to buy them. Beyond me.

Don't think they've sold that well.
But each to there own if someone wants to buy one , let them

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

@General-Lee , I’d stick with the Rangey if I were you . [emoji85]

 

[Cowabunga]

Don't think they've sold that well.
But each to there own if someone wants to buy one , let them

Indeed they have not sold as well as expected. Certainly not in the UK.
That's what comes of listening to social media comments and interest in the vehicle without realising that a very high proportion of the audience could never actually afford to buy one or run one.
They priced the Velar quite a bit too high I'm afraid. The dealers forward ordered far too many, so dealer stocks are now embarrassingly high but falling now I think.

None of which changes the actual desirability and ability of the car itself. It will undoubtedly be a great international success for JLR in the long term.

I reckon its one of the best looking and desirable cars on the road today, as long as the right spec and colour combination is chosen. That Corris Grey example is one of the best in my opinion. Its far more tasteful than my own darker grey [not LR product] car which has too much chrome on the side view. It would look so much better with the black trim like the Velar.

The Velar, like most JLR cars, has a vast choice of colours and trim combinations and optional extras. Its amazing how it can, if required, be ordered precisely as the customer wants. The range of engines available is itself quite impressive, from a 180hp diesel to supercharged V6 petrol and everything in between.

All that's needed is shed-loads of money to buy one. Plus the enthusiasm for the product of course. Most people really aren't that interested in cars even though they may be able to afford a very nice one easily. Farmer's have been conditioned to be somehow ashamed of having a big and successful business that can afford such a car. Other businesses and professions and their owners have no such prudishness or reluctance to spend their hard earned money on luxuries.

 

[Yale]

I just look at a Range Rover of any type and think of the repair bills when they go wrong.

Would I have one,maybe,would have to be a Vogue but I would have to be like my neighbour who doesn’t work and spends most of the week cleaning his fleet of very expensive cars.

Each to their own.

 

[Cowabunga]

I just look at a Range Rover of any type and think of the repair bills when they go wrong.

Would I have one,maybe,would have to be a Vogue but I would have to be like my neighbour who doesn’t work and spends most of the week cleaning his fleet of very expensive cars.

Each to their own.

So it "would have to be a Vogue" if one were thrust upon you against your will. And you would have to spend your week cleaning it rather than driving it.

I can tell that you are not a car person. I am, but believe that I have not spent much time washing my Land Cruiser over the last twenty years since I bought it. Wheels are meant for turning.
The Bentayga I mentioned above will be a daily work car, doing high milages all over Europe if his recent Porsche Cayenne's are an example.

 

[Robt]

Is he a wedding planner? Thought you said he was hiring it out

 

[Yale]

So it "would have to be a Vogue" if one were thrust upon you against your will. And you would have to spend your week cleaning it rather than driving it.

I can tell that you are not a car person. I am, but believe that I have not spent much time washing my Land Cruiser over the last twenty years since I bought it. Wheels are meant for turning.
The Bentayga I mentioned above will be a daily work car, doing high milages all over Europe if his recent Porsche Cayenne's are an example.

To be honest I don’t feel I could do that car justice.

Personally I feel a vehicle like a Vogue has to be nurtured and cherished,something which I basically have not got the time to do.

Luxury vehicles like that do not look good with wheels black with brake dust and that dirty you have to keep washing the number plate as you don’t have time to give the rest a good clean.

I like a quality vehicle however it has to be disposable enough that the children can treat it as a skip as it would get tiresome to remind them 20 times a journey not to put their feet up or sort that sticky sweet wrapper immediately.

Couple of days ago went somewhere with the Mrs and wondered why there was what looked like cow muck on the dash,it wasn’t even me.

It will get cleaned however at the moment it’s a tool which does the job.

Just think,cream leather seats......