Land Rover whipped the covers off the new Range Rover Evoque Convertible at the SA Festival of Motoring this week, revealing the price in the process.
With local sales due to start in mid-October, the Evoque Convertible will be priced from R1 002 400.
The drop-top SUV features a fabric roof with a “Z-fold” mechanism that sits flush with the rear bodywork. Land Rover claims that this fabric roof is the “longest and widest currently fitted to any vehicle on sale today”.
The automated roof stows in 18 seconds, and can be raised in 21 seconds, at speeds up to 48 km/h. The position of the roof does not affect luggage capacity, which is a claimed 251 litres.
The Evoque Convertible features deployable rollover bars hidden in the rear bodywork. In what Land Rover describes as “the unlikely event of a rollover situation”, two aluminium bars are deployed (within 90 milliseconds).
Power comes from the British brand’s four-cylinder turbocharged petrol mill, which means peak outputs of 177 kW and 340 N.m. And, despite the fact that it’s topless, the Evoque Convertible will still be equipped with four-wheel drive and the brand’s various off-roading systems.