Range Rover Evoque: car review | Martin Love

There's precious little game to spot in the wilds of Essex, but this new baby 'Chelsea tractor' is certainly a class act

Price: 28,250
Top speed: 112mph
0-62mph: 10 seconds
MPG: 56.5

I drove my parents to a funeral last Tuesday, of one of their oldest and dearest friends. They met Ann, and her husband Brian, when they all lived in Kenya in the 1970s. They were golden days. Brian had a Range Rover, it must have been one of the first in Africa as the brand only launched in 1970. Our families would go on safari together, kids standing like meerkats on the backseat, peering out of the sunroof as we bounced across dusty savannahs in search of game. Forty years later we've swapped the Maasai Mara for a crematorium outside Brentwood in darkest Essex. And, by coincidence, the car we are driving is still a Range Rover.