Badged the Range Rover SV Coupe, a maximum of 999 are to be built by the firm’s Special Vehicle Operations division to sell in all world markets, at a price to be announced. As a machine to create a new niche at the pinnacle of the SUV market it is sure to come with Range Rover’s highest-ever price tag.
Ahead of the Geneva exposition here’s a sneak peek at it – or at least of what Land Rover calls its “supremely refined” interior, boasting “peerless refinement and uncompromised sophistication”. The emphasis as a Range Rover for drivers is clear in the two-colour interior, with white quilted leather up front and black for the back seats.
What will it look like on the outside? We are promised a “dramatic two-door silhouette” with what design director Gerry McGovern calls “breathtaking exterior proportions.” Quite what cleverness they have come up with to allow easy access into the rear – where, as the picture shows, it offers far from a coupe’s normal cramped quarters – is yet to be seen.
Plenty of “coupes” these days have four doors but Land Rover has a longstanding love affair with two-door cars, not just for the SWB Defender family but with the Range Rover, which began in 1970 as a two-door only, and followed by Freelander, Evoque and concepts like the Range Stormer, which morphed into the (four-door) Range Rover Sport.