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Land Rover, the world’s quintessential SUV brand, has just trotted out the Range Rover GT. It’s a Range Rover. It’s a grand touring coupe. It’s a decade-old prophecy coming true—and the company says it’s about “long-haul refinement and all‑terrain capability.”
It doesn’t look all that dramatically different from the Range Rover Velar, but it certainly pushes the brand further from its off-road truck home base and into car territory. Here’s the pitch from JLR, specifically, Range Rover Managing Director Martin Limpert:
“The Range Rover GT will redefine the grand‑touring segment with the ability to deliver beautiful and engaging GT poise, proportions and long‑distance refinement while offering capabilities no conventional GT can match. We have spent the last few years working obsessively on the fundamentals of the GT formula, reinterpreted in a sophisticated, uniquely Range Rover way. 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.”
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So, yeah, to answer your first question: It’s an EV. It’s going to be the first electric Range Rover on the brand’s new EMA platform, made in Halewood, UK, alongside combustion and hybrid models. The Range Rover GT, which is reportedly now in its last stages of prototype testing, will launch as fully electric, but a hybrid model is already slated.
As for exactly how much range this Rover will have, or power, or any other spec, that’s TBA. I’m guessing they’re targeting 300-plus miles and a 3.0-ish 0 to 60 sprint. Expect intense acceleration and a high curb weight, like every other high-end luxury electric car.
It looks a little bit like the Jaguar Type 01—at least, it has similarly squinty eyes—but that rides on a different platform.
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We’ve been hearing about “Range Rover maybe making a car” for over a decade. While looking around for context, I found an old article I wrote myself in 2016 about a rumor that Range Rover was going to rebadge a Jaguar to make its own coupe. That didn’t end up happening, of course. And while the Range Rover GT is officially called “car-like” with a “sleek silhouette and coupé proportions,” it’s really more like an aerodynamic crossover than an actual sedan. But it does seem closer to a Cadillac Lyriq than a Porsche Cayenne coupe or one of the other category-crossing German hunchback monsters.
I’m interested to see what JLR actually means by “all-terrain capability.” I guess if you combine the brand’s advanced traction management tech with four independent electric motors, you could make progress over awfully slippery terrain. But that low ride height is going to make any actual trail traversing pretty challenging.
The interior is very much in line with 2026 luxury design trends: Just big, expansive planes of nothingness punctuated by screens. “Sanctuary of calm,” is the company line, though I think it looks about as luxe as the bathroom in an airplane. The absence of detail is not good design; I don’t care how relentlessly Apple and Tesla and Gerry McGovern insist it is.
Objectively speaking, I reckon Range Rover’s actual customer base will dig this. Prototype vehicles are undertaking their final on‑road testing now, and JLR says it’ll share more info on the Range Rover GT later this year.
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Automotive journalist since 2013, Andrew primarily coordinates features, sponsored content, and multi-departmental initiatives at The Drive.
