Is the All-New Range Rover GT Stepping on Jaguar’s Tail?

In what looks to beryllium a extremist departure from its existing lineup, Range Rover has confirmed an wholly caller 5th vehicle: the Range Rover GT, an all-electric expansive tourer built connected the company's Electrified Modular Architecture (EMA), the aforesaid level that volition underpin different midsized cars for the brand.

Range Rover has lone shared camouflaged prototype pictures for now, arsenic the GT is supposedly inactive undergoing last testing, up of a afloat motorboat expected aboriginal this year. That means details connected this wholly caller exemplary are scant to accidental the least: nary price, nary range, and nary powerfulness figures person been disclosed. As for a merchandise date, Range Rover confirmed the GT hits the roadworthy successful 2027.

What is evident from the camo images is the GT's sleek silhouette and coupé proportions, much typically associated with Range Rover's sister brand, Jaguar, than with the marque known for its committedness to SUVs. Both companies beryllium beneath the genitor company, JLR (formerly spelled retired arsenic Jaguar Land Rover).

In a statement, Martin Limpert, planetary managing manager astatine Range Rover, says the Range Rover GT is intended to “redefine the grand-touring segment” with its “GT poise, proportions and long-distance refinement,” adding that the EV volition connection “capabilities nary accepted GT tin match.”

The inclusion of the connection “conventional” is doing immoderate dense lifting. Range Rover volition apt instrumentality pains successful the coming months explaining however this caller all-electric expansive tourer isn't a nonstop rival to Jaguar's caller all-electric expansive tourer, the hugely anticipated and polarizing Type 01, intended to signify a implicit reset for Jaguar, besides arriving successful 2027.

“We person spent the past fewer years moving obsessively connected the fundamentals of the GT formula, reinterpreted successful a sophisticated, uniquely Range Rover way,” says Limpert, adding that this GT, similar its SUV stablemates, volition seemingly inactive beryllium capable to off-road. “The effect is the astir car-like Range Rover ever created. Its blend of effortless EV performance, first-class long-haul refinement, and all-terrain capableness is axenic Range Rover, portion its interior previews our imaginativeness of a modern expansive tourer.”