S’Charged Thunder

ANDREW LEOPOLD

R1 743 325 FOR It’s a lovely object to look at and be in AGAINST All that weight and heavy nose taint the dynamics Let’s start with the name: Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic, or SVAD for short. This tells us a lot about the car’s positioning which I’ll now attempt to unpack in Land Rover’s increasingly fragmented vernacular. At its core this flagship Velar emerges from the Special Vehicle Operations skunkworks but drops the ‘Racing’ to strike a level balance with luxury. In other words, to enhance the Velar’s current characteristics. Mostly, it must be said, by inheriting the five-litre supercharged V8 which is a doyen of the JLR family with the same 405kW and 680Nm as in the recently launched F-Pace SVR. I won’t pretend that this doesn’t have the…

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Top Gear South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019

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