Photo: Yasid Design
The Range Rover Evoque isn't popular in America, and we don't know why. Well, we do know why. It's seen as a girly kind of Land Rover, a bit like how the Audi TT was the coupe for hairdressers. Coincidence would have it that both were also made into convertibles.
Just like the Mk1 TT, the Evoque should eventually become a modern classic. It's got a timeless, rounded look and several features that make it collectible, including few of the only 2-door SUV bodies ever made and windows so low you could mistake it for a concept car.
Besides the price and Land Rover's reliability ratings, the thing that's perhaps holding it back the most is an amazing engine. Due to emissions restrictions in Europe, Land Rover decided to only make this available with 2-liter turbo engines, and that's simply not exciting.
We're sure that they could have installed an amazing V6. Sadly, nobody seems to have attempted an engine swap of any kind. When seeing this awesome widebody rendering by Yasid Design, we could thus only think of the crazy Nissan Juke-R.
Back about a decade ago, Nissan went crazy and installed the GT-R engine in the little Juke, complete with a shortened version of the R35's AWD system. Now, a more obvious swap for a crazy Evoque would be the supercharged V8, but we think that wouldn't fit at all.
Yasid did a very interesting job in the wing department. On a coupe or sedan, the place to put the wing is quite obvious, but hatchbacks and SUVs have a problem. Here, the artist decided to wedge it onto the rear widebody fenders. The trunk probably doesn't open all the way now, but who needs groceries when your crossover is now a race car.
By the way, the Evoque was and still is one of the few small SUVs that's also an excellent off-roader. So the chin splitter might be offensive to some.
Besides the price and Land Rover's reliability ratings, the thing that's perhaps holding it back the most is an amazing engine. Due to emissions restrictions in Europe, Land Rover decided to only make this available with 2-liter turbo engines, and that's simply not exciting.
We're sure that they could have installed an amazing V6. Sadly, nobody seems to have attempted an engine swap of any kind. When seeing this awesome widebody rendering by Yasid Design, we could thus only think of the crazy Nissan Juke-R.
Back about a decade ago, Nissan went crazy and installed the GT-R engine in the little Juke, complete with a shortened version of the R35's AWD system. Now, a more obvious swap for a crazy Evoque would be the supercharged V8, but we think that wouldn't fit at all.
Yasid did a very interesting job in the wing department. On a coupe or sedan, the place to put the wing is quite obvious, but hatchbacks and SUVs have a problem. Here, the artist decided to wedge it onto the rear widebody fenders. The trunk probably doesn't open all the way now, but who needs groceries when your crossover is now a race car.
By the way, the Evoque was and still is one of the few small SUVs that's also an excellent off-roader. So the chin splitter might be offensive to some.
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