Range Rover Evoque views please

Jealousy, why.

The vehicles I suggested all retail at higher price than the Evoque. If you mean we are not impressed by tarty badges and having smoke blown up my jacksi, then yes, guilty.

You are obviously brand loyal and nobody will convince you that they have been superseded  in many respects. You have not lived with anything else and no doubt you count the salesman and service manager as your chums, and they love you. 

For the record I love the JLR brands and really want their product, they are innovative, dive beautifully, and are pretty, yes even the one with the offset rear plate, I like it. I will never own one as I have too many friends who have had truly terrible product from them.

For reference, some light reading, say it all really.

https://www.whatcar.com/news/2018-what-car-reliability-survey/n17821

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-6134061/The-cars-depend-revealed.html

https://www.buyacar.co.uk/cars/478/most-reliable-cars-rated-by-jd-power-uk

Hint, scan to the bottom.

Is there any significance in the fact that those extolling JLR products appear to have had multiple models. Are they being swapped before they develop problems or because they have done so?

Quite possibly CY. My stepson is, despite a less than satisfactory ownership experience of RR products informs me this morning he is probably going to replace his utterly reliable but impractical Maserati with an SVR RR Sport this month. Second choice is a Cayenne Coupe. My FL2 was the best car for towing ability i have owned however aforementioned reliability, poor build, fit and finish simply did not cut it for me. I wanted to buy the Evoque but the magnetic attraction to the local dealers workshop was unacceptable for me. The Audi A6 and Passat Alltrack owned since my FL2 excursion were both reliable, bought well used and both exceeded or are exceeding mileages significantly north of 100k. The Audi was sold at 187k miles still going strong....

When you go to the motorhome and caravan show at the NEC, what vehicle is used to give towing lessons at the front of the show. It's not Land/Range Rover.  As for the tow car of the year awards, the manufacturer sends the vehicles not the club asking for them, and how can they give awards when not every car on the market is tested.

Thanks everyone for your input.I I've  read them all but was really keen to hear from those who have or are towing with an Evoque. Thanks to those who have. 😀 I have towed for 5 years with a Freelander 2 which has never once had any problems or let me down but I now need an automatic car for slogging on motorways on business solo and for towing infrequently. I can't afford top end Mercs, Jags etc and the Evoque gets good reviews for towing. Every car brand has reliability issues in some form or another. For every one who loves X Y or Z brand there will be another who's got 10 horror stories about it. If you actually tow with an Evoque or have towed with it, good or bad I'm interested to hear from you. Cheers all. Written from my lovely caravan towed here without incident by a rubbish Landrover brand car. 😂 😉

Well said. Not sure why people believe this drivel purporting to be reliability surveys, I have never been asked to partake in one nor has anyone I know. I suspect it is a way of justifying the purchase of a foreign built vehicle and that people who purchase these vehicles generally have lower expectations, witness the number of people on Club Together that are happy with sub standard tow bar wiring and the need for extra cooling etc on so called top end vehicles.
I remember years ago when the Nissan Terrano and Ford Maverick were manufactured on the same production line in Spain, the same vehicle with minor trim differences, the Press of the day consistently rated the Nissan version higher in all these surveys because it was perceived to be Japanese.
These unreliable surveys have not changed.

The vast majority of the income for JD Powers is derived from the vehicle manufacturers contracting them to do reliability and marketing surveys on their behalf. Why would they do this if as you claim it is all fictitious and a conspiracy.

Also if these were not the views of genuine owners then why don't the vehicle manufacturers sue the hell out of them for publishing false and damaging information about their product? They publish it as fact not opinion.

People who buy foreign vehicles generally have lower expectations, this just confirms your knowledge of the automotive industry really is zero. 

And What Car, Which and others use readers for survey data source material. However back to the OP. I have seen lots of FL2’s and Disco Sports towing but only recall one Evoque so you might struggle to get the response you seek. Given however the Evoque is fundamentally a poshed up FL2 i do not see the problem. Where i struggle with your logic is saying you cannot afford high end cars such as Mercs and Jags! A Jag EPace sits on modified Evoque platform, is in a similar price bracket and a GLA Merc competes with the Evoque as does a Beemer X2. Have you actually looked at their prices? 

For all those who have never seen an Evoque towing anything, here's a photo of ours pitched up at beautiful St Jean Pied de Port a couple of years ago.

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