Jaguar Land Rover intends on launching a whole new
family of models dubbed Road Rover by the year 2020.
Autocar reports that the first model from the Road
Rover family will be an all-electric vehicle with all-terrain abilities and
interior luxury to rival that of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Thanks to the
electric motors, it should also offer impressive performance and handling. In
fact, a range of around 82 km seems likely, as does a 0-96
km/h time of less than 5 seconds.
Few other details about this first Road Rover model
are known but it will apparently be launched at the Los Angeles Auto Show in
late 2019 before hitting the market at the start of 2020. It will also be
joined by a fleet of other vehicles that combine on-road poise with off-road
ruggedness.
It is reported that bosses at Jaguar Land Rover have
concluded that the best way to increase sales will be to make the most of the
SUV and crossover boom and therefore push forward with a range of all-electric
crossovers.
The name ‘Road Rover’ has some history for Land
Rover. In the 1950s, the name was used by an experimental model created to slot
between Rover cars and Land Rover vehicles.
