Here’s a Big Fat Happy Birthday to the Range Rover Evoque

The Evoque is manufactured since July 4, 2011, at Halewood Body & Assembly. In the past, Halewood was the place where Ford assembled the Anglia, Corsair, Escort, Capri, Fiesta, and Orion. After Ford, Jaguar and Land Rover used the factory to make the X-Type and Freelander. Nowadays, the Liverpudlian facility is the realm of the Discovery Sport and Evoque.

Of all vehicles made here, the Range Rover Evoque struck a chord with Richard Else, operations director at Halewood Body & Assembly: “During my 25 years at Jaguar Land Rover, it has been the last five years that have been the most eventful, exciting and rewarding. The impact which Evoque has made to our business and to Halewood is nothing short of transformational. I am immensely proud of the Halewood team.”

At the present moment, the Range Rover Evoque can be had in three body styles: 3-door, 5-door or convertible. With OTR prices starting from £30,600 for the 2.0-liter eD4 turbo diesel and a six-speed manual transmission, the Evoque is, realistically speaking, more attainable than the full-size Range Rover.

The price, the design, the luxuriousness, the practicality, and the badge is what makes it such a great success in its class even five years after its debut. During those five years of production, the Halewood Body & Assembly workforce clocked up “more than three million night-shift hours, consuming 668,000 cups of coffee, half a million eggs and 125,000 slices of toast to keep energy levels up during an eight-hour shift.”

Here’s to another five years, you magnificent bastard!