Range Rover Velar OFF ROAD REVIEW 

I love Both Range Rovers🤍

Ya it was fun. Thanks for watching

Big balls nedeed to do this Velar's test, bro. Congrats.

agreed

@Wilder Henry Flixportal :D

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@Wilder Henry you are welcome :D

See in your situation I think the Velar is great! Very excited for you and nice jon opting for the TR2 😎

The Velar can definitely handle it’s own off road to an extent. I was really impressed with it. Even though it’s road focused it’s ready to get dirty when the pavement ends even on street tires!

Ah great idea

What driving mode were you in while driving through the offset holes? Having a locking rear differential would’ve made a big difference even though it still looked fairly easy to go through it. What tires do you have on your sport and what tires were on the Velar?

I was in mud ruts mode. Stock tires, whatever it's sold with. I think they were pirellis. I got the same ones but right now I got my winter tires on, Michilan x ice snow

Well said

Exactly! I specced mine in Silicon Silver and would you believe it, there was a Maybach and a Mulsanne at my school, but all everyone was talking about was the Velar, its paint and its flush door handles. If you want a car to shame those overly and pointlessly exuberant individuals the Velar is the SUV to buy. Why would anyone term it as fat? Isn't that supposed to be a compliment towards the designer for having successfully mastered the art of designing cars? It's a visual technique, helped by the sloping roof line and wide LED tail lamps

Once they get the damn borders open!!!

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Can’t compare a 1980s with a modern Velar at all. One wasn’t even made back then and one is built for the city first and trail second. However you can still argue even back in 1980 a RRC was ahead of its time in terms of technology

the RRC is a mighty SUV but it lacks what the velar has on the road. The RRC Doesn't even have ABS.

Too a bit of slack for this to be honest. Won’t be using their cars to “test” anymore with out proper permission. Just keeping it real with you 😉

Starbucks drive thru is what I settled for 😂

I was in mud ruts mode. Stock tires, whatever it's sold with. I think they were pirellis. I got the same ones but right now I got my winter tires on, Michilan x ice snow

Check out the single amber button on the dash at 5:01 and 10:07. This means that hill descent control was on throughout the entire video (or at least the majority of it). Pretty poor I must say. Why would you engage hill descent control while going uphill? It would only needlessly engage the brakes. ATPC is available for that

HDS control goes on automatically based on what terrain mode you are in. It only starts working when you are pointed down hill, other then that it's in standby mode

@@DrivenHard Oh okay got it. It doesn't engage automatically for me though. I usually use ATPC which automatically engages the throttle and brakes

What do you mean? When you got to mud/rutts it doesn't turn on by default? Like the icon turns on?

Correct. Velar customers don't really need or want something for trails. But it will take them there if they need to

I could get a Kia through these tests. Doesn’t mean it’s made for them

Ya I got my RRS tuned by them. Loved it. How much Power do you have now?

They say it could be between 460 and 480 but I wouldn’t know for sure unless I had it dyno tested. It’s extremely fast! It feels like a completely different vehicle

That's solid man

The average weight of a Range Rover Sport is 5100 pounds the average weight of a Range Rover Velar is 4300 pounds. That makes it a rocket ship and it goes from 0 to 60 in 4.2 seconds

Yes 100% correct.

Off roading as in? They really aren't designed for off roading BUT they can go off road . But if that is all you can go for, the Velar has hands down a better all around car.

That was optional not on this one

I did finally find the mall 🤣😂😂

mixed feelings for me lol

@@DrivenHard 😍😍😍😍😅😅

Same, as a student of Architecture, it has all the elements that make a design and the end result great. It's not just for show, it's very practical and leagues ahead in off road worthiness when compared to rivals such as the Porsche Macan, GLC, GLE Coupe and more

Good call bro!

The f pace is not designed for off road at all

@@DrivenHard are you sure? Because It’s a 4 wheel drive suv

Everything has, AWD now a days. That doesn't mean it suppose to go off road. It has zero clearance, especially in the front. It's designed to get you unstuck while in the city, not on the trails. The Velar is the same thing, it's not designed for the trails at all, it's a city off road that will destroy the competition on an actual off road trail but it's not a vehicle designed to go offroad like a Range Rover for example

Remember 4wd is NOT the same as AWD

@@DrivenHard thank you

Lol it was fun to see what this thing could do

@@DrivenHard is it your velar?

No. Friends

Ah that’s interesting. Thanks for sharing man.

Not for this. Tires are perfect for the type of off roading a Velar is able to take on. Those tires on a Disco RR or RRS yeahs wrong tires for off roading for sure

100% man

Like the Evoque and the Discovery Sport? Come on guys, give credit where credit is due, Gerry McGovern just slapped Mercedes and BMW on the face, for their hideous and unpractical Coupe SUVs

The Velar is one of the most gorgeous looking SUVs ever designed! (I don’t own one myself) - looks so much better than what the Germans have come up with. Why do you need low range? Chose a suitable program in Terrain Response and you are good to go! 😉 It’s no more of a “cross-over” than the evoque. Yes, the RR Sport is more capable - but it does not really compete with a wrangler or a Defender..

@@scandinavia6271 Exactly. Mercedes,BMW and Audi make eye catching coupe SUVs but you can't call any of them "gorgeous" or "elegant". They just seem too in your face and unnecessarily brash, which means in a just a couple of years you'll get bored of the design and it will get outdated. Not the Velar, which was revealed in 2017, yet 4 years later it still looks better proportioned and feels more special than any SUV from the German trio. In fact just in terms of design, the Velar is kilometres ahead of the Range Rover Sport and Range Rover. The bigger Range Rovers seem a bit too long in the tooth nowadays, which explains why many owners seem to envy the work of art which is the Velar. Gerry McGovern is already 65 years old, which is the age for retirement in the Tata Group. Though the new Evoque and the new Defender were launched after the Velar, you can clearly tell that the Velar is his masterpiece. Also, you have ATPC (a low speed cruise control) for low speed off roading, where you can just set the speed, take your feet of the pedals and relax.

ATPC is also on the Jaguar XF. It certainly doesn't replace a low range. Low Range is for better control and way more torque in low speed situations. No matter what the gearing may be for the 1st gear, low range is essential for low speed off roading

I freaking hope there's animal in the leather. It's feels like real leather not the fake crap

Great to hear from you. Definitely a few things to keep in mind, south Africa will always be expensive for maintenance as well as Australia for these vehicles, its just a market thing. Just like BMW is expensive to maintain in NA but much more reasonable in the EU My experience with Range Rovers is brand new under 100k kms, luxury vehicles are not designed to last 10 years or 250k kms like a Toyota is still built to this day for that purpose. So as with any luxury brand it's always best to understand what you are getting and ensure it matches up with your goals in ownership etc

@@DrivenHard Thank You 😊

The warranty is good for 80k or 4 years so that is how long I'll keep it lol I'll most likely get the new SVR when it finally comes out

Driven Hard 😭

That’s isn’t the issue about not having a real low range.

@@DrivenHard I didn’t say it was, but you did say that you didn’t fully trust hill decent control without a low range because the speed is a little too high. That’s not the case it’s adjustable and you don’t need the brakes at all.

Im use to a much slower pace creeping down hill. I could not get the Disco Sport to creep down a steep decline at 2-3km/h at its lowest settings. It’s better then not having the option of course.

By the way appreciate your review really help it a lot

Its best in its class, but not a real off roader for sure

No you won't.

But ur content is good. Keep up the reviews. Come to Qatar and I will challenge you to a desert off road!