The Range Rover Velar embraces the idea of a Land Rover you keep clean, with a relatively low ride height and sleek lines (though it can still play in the dirt). A fully electric variant is in the pipeline, and our spies in Europe caught a prototype whipping around snow-covered roads.
While the current Velar kind of looks like a regular Range Rover, just squished and swept back a bit, this prototype seems to be a little more visually front-heavy. The hood looks a bit shorter, and the area behind the second-row windows has some angular haunches to it.
On the back, there are very pronounced spoilers above the rear window, split in the middle, plus a smaller spoiler below the window, kind of like a Cayenne Coupe. Heavily pronounced chunks along the sides of the roof, and big protrusions where the cargo area windows would normally be, caught my attention too.
The rear end of these prototypes continues to be the most obscured part of the design with the camouflage doing its job. It’s hard to tell exactly how fast the roofline is, but clearly the new Velar will not have a traditional SUV shape, rather will be designed for efficiency with the air flowing around it.
We’ve seen what the hatch opening looks like—a big clamshell that should provide a lot of access to the back.
The Range Rover Velar EV is expected to debut later this year and arrive close to the end of next year as 2028 model year in the U.S. market.
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