FS: Range Rover Evoque 2.0

https://www.luxuo.com/style/beauty/range-rover-evoque-concept-road-bike.html

Shame it doesn't the show number plate or you could Met RoadSafe her.

These bikes really annoy me. They always call it a concept or lifestyle bike but that's just a mid level Taiwanese bike with Range Rover branding. How is that a concept or what does that say about your lifestyle? I know they're all at it but who actually buys these?
I believe this is the current worst offender although i think the Factor Aston Martin may hold the all time crown. This is a 12k bike tops with a 50% mark up and its not even nice.
https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Cervelo/R5-Lamborghini-Disc-Road-Bike/TZ6P

Gah! That's just horrible. The korma camo paint job.

The Evoque hitting it sideways because it doesn't have the approach/departure angles...

I honestly can't understand the appeal of an Evoque. It's rubbish for off road (not that 99% in the UK need the capability), and there are probably hundreds of better (and cheaper) spacious options for roads driving.

Right, so speaking as a 36yr old with no kids can someone please explain something to me:

Back when I was a kid my parents managed perfectly well getting me, my brother and a bouncy Labrador away for family holidays up and down the country in a Rover Metro. Yes it was a little snug on an 8hr drive to Cornwall but no bother. Aside from the occasional posho with a Volvo estate this was the norm growing up in rural Oxfordshire in the 90s.

At what point did all the breeders decide it’s impossible to have kids and travel more than 300yrds without buying a fucking minibus. Seems so utterly unnecessary.

Amen! My mum took me and my sister to the supermarket to do the weekly shop on a Pashley Picador.

As a 41yr old with kids I often ask myself the same question. Our holidays were similar, except usually Wales in a slightly more spacious but probably less practical Capri. Life seems to demand a lot more 'stuff' than it did when we were small and it bothers the hell out of me.

Mostly I blame consumerism and am often derided by people for being tight when in fact I just don't see the point in having more things.

Just taken both my kids to ballet in Peckham by cargo bike. It's in Zone 2, on several bus routes and not far from the station. Judging by the schools most of the kids are from, the catchment is 1-2 miles.

An endless chain of Tiguan, Evoques, those proper arsehole wagon Volvo XC90s etc. Of course all of them leave the motor running while they pick the kids up.

So depressing and I imagine half the local traffic on the roads around here is a similar story.

I think "stuff" is needed for everything now: going for a swim, going for a run... A triumph of marketing.

Literally every argument for needing to carry multiple kids, pet and luggage AND safety can literally and easily be met with getting a boring, spacious and very safe family / people carrier. Not an SUV. Period.

You're all missing the point. Those may be the excuses that range rover drivers use outwardly but it's literally that it's a range rover, the brand has an image of expense and wealth and that's it. People like SUVs because of the height, they're imposing, makes the driver feel bigger, above all the peasants in their regular sized small cars and you know if you crash, you are guaranteed to kill the single mother and child in their Vauxhall Corsa but you and your toy Pomeranian in the Evoque will escape without even messing up your hair.

I think I was spoiled as a kid, we had a Vauxhall Velox and it seemed huge!

Austin/rover montego, good British estate cars run on good British red diesel.

There's plenty of videos of 2CV's completely mullering Land Rovers off road.

No Land Rovers in this video, but so good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENRFrK89uVE

Agree with brand and image. Similarly lots of Americans have their spotless Ford F150 tanks trucks, purely for their practical use. 😄

That's a load of fun! I think half the laughters from the surprise of how ludicrously capable these things are.

That was something I found really refreshing about going to Florida. Actually seeing pickups used as work vehicles.

This

Pretty sure Ford have said they're not going to bring any more cars to market in the states other than the Mustang from now on, and just do trucks and SUVs.

Most car manufacturers are saying similar because people buying new cars only want trucks and SUVs, and larger and larger ones at that.

I noticed a few oversize trucks appearing in UK too, perhaps a growing trend?

this is the new Yaris

Fucks sake