---
title: "Drive Wire: Meet the New Range Rover Convertible Evoque"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-10-07"
modified: "2015-10-07"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/421/drive-wire-meet-the-new-range-rover-convertible-evoque"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Convertible"
  - "land rover"
  - "luxury"
  - "range rover evoque"
---

# Drive Wire: Meet the New Range Rover Convertible Evoque

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Transcript:

Here’s a different type of controversy — the fun kind, not the kind with massive cover-ups and looming recalls. Land Rover is making a convertible of the Evoque, its city-friendly SUV, and the company is going out of its way to tout the vehicle’s off-road capability. Some of you may wonder if this is a repeat of Nissan’s infamous Murano cross-cabriolet. Here’s our two cents. One, the Evoque is way more composed off-road than the cross-cabriolet. And two, let’s just all agree that it’ll never be as good, or as cool, as the mythically great Land Rover Defender 90 Convertible. Controversy over!

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