Range Rover Evoque five-door

Land Rover has today issued the full spec on the new Range Rover Evoque five-door. Land Rover calls the three-door Evoque a coupe aimed at singletons or young couples; the five-door is pitched at young families with one or two children.
The windscreen is exactly the same angle as the three-door’s, but is stretched by 62mm – allowing the roof to be mounted higher up. It’s still raked, but doesn’t fall away as steeply as the three-door Evoque’s roofline.
‘Headroom for those in the front row is 30mm better than the Evoque coupe,’ Land Rover’s engineering chief Murray Dietsch tells CAR. ‘Passengers in the rear get 40mm more headroom.’
Interestingly, the roof pressing is identical on both models; it just sits higher up on the five-door and is mounted at a different angle. Everyman’s translation: that means the side windows are less steeply angled in.
The five-door comes with three rear seats, as opposed to the coupe’s 2+2 seating layout.
Land Rover expects the five-door to take the lion’s share of sales, gobbling up around two-thirds of production. Both bodystyles will be built at Halewood.Both bodystyles go on sale simultaneously with first production slated for summer 2011.


