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Range Rover GT turns the brand away from SUVs
Range Rover has revealed early details of the GT, a four-door grand tourer on its EMA platform with an EV powertrain and a new minimalist interior.
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Range Rover has shared the first substantive details of the Range Rover GT, a four-door grand tourer that pushes the brand beyond its SUV roots. The company says the model has been developed over the past few years around the fundamentals of the GT formula, but reworked in a way that still feels distinctly Range Rover.
“We have spent the last few years working obsessively on the fundamentals of the GT formula, reinterpreted in a sophisticated, uniquely Range Rover way,” said Martin Limpert, managing director of Range Rover. “The result is the most car-like, yet unmistakably capable, Range Rover ever created, now possible on our electrified EMA architecture—complementing our existing powertrain portfolio to deliver a complete set of options for every customer need. Its blend of effortless EV performance, first-class long-haul refinement and all-terrain capability is pure Range Rover; while its calming interior previews our vision of a modern grand tourer.”
The EMA platform is Range Rover’s third electrifiable architecture. The other two are MLA, already used by Range Rovers, and JEA, the platform Jaguar is developing for its forthcoming Type 01. Like the Range Rover GT, that Jaguar will also be a four-door grand tourer and is expected to debut later this year.
Ars Technica says Range Rover showed it the GT’s interior, and it marks a clear break from the cabins used in the company’s SUVs. The design is ultraminimalist at first glance, though it still includes the physical controls required by safety regulators in Europe and other markets for certain functions.
The cabin tech is restrained by current industry standards. Range Rover has skipped a dedicated third display for the front passenger. Instead, the GT uses two OLED screens for the main instrument display and infotainment, and a head-up display comes standard.
Range Rover says more details on the GT, including its final exterior without camouflage, will arrive later this year.
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