Range Rover Evoque car review: ‘It’s a compromise car’

The accent is on fuel and carbon economy - relative to the rest of the Land Rover family, of course, not to cars at large

There's something about the rounded exterior of the Range Rover Evoque that makes me want to give it a hug, but only in the pictures. I would never hug a live car.

People in the big-car market call this a diddy version of a real Range Rover; there's even one with three doors, for those who want all the road hogging with none of the convenience. However, to any regular eye, it's still a large high rider, a car in which you meet other cars that are also impractically large on urban streets: one of you has to reverse, and it falls to the person who is the humblest, which is never the person who is best at reversing. But anyway: I maintain, nonetheless, that it has a linear softness I like, and a pleasing, clink-clunk quality to the interior.