2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Five-Door Concept Review

When the three-door Range Rover Evoque show Paris Motor Show in September, Land Rover, as expected, used when the Los Angeles seems to reveal the five-door version. With 20-inch wheels and style that eschews the typical SUV cues from hard like most skidplates, three-door and five-door at a high level of urban drivers, who want but can not reach $ 60,495 Range Rover Sport. Dimension Evoque twins are identical, except that the five-door is about an inch tall rear seat passengers and are about two inches more shoulder room, a spacious back seat.

As the three-door, five of the engine is a 2.0-liter turbocharged direct-injection four-cylinder is about 240 hp combined with a hard full-time four-wheel. The engine is Ford’s new family of EcoBoost four-cylinder. Transmission makes twins Evoque two most expensive four-cylinder vehicles in the U.S. market.

The recall is for most steel platform FWD car-based in the Land Rover LR2, although only about 30 percent of parts are carryover. The sporty design and proportions evoke required major changes to the body stampings and suspension, says Land Rover managing director Phil Popham. The three doors evoke should take around 220 pounds lighter than the LR2 4250 pounds, the five-door, about 154 pounds lighter, said Popham.

A crucial difference between three and five-door: Under U.S. law, sport utility vehicles, two passenger doors are subject to an import duty of 25 per cent by the storm. The “chicken tax” presumably the name of a controversy in 1963 with France and Germany, where the U.S. has put the tax on certain agricultural products and trucks, in response to the European rights to chickens from the day America.

The trucks were different, but the law remains on the books and the urban-chic three doors (two passenger doors and a tailgate) mention pay, while the five-door exempt evoke. So, beyond the comfort in the rear, the biggest difference between the two body styles will be your profit margins for Land Rover.