New Range Rover Evoque vs. The VX???

[blacksambo]

Nice buy. But early Porsches went begging too. That's why Hoffman Motors (The importer) formulated the Speedster version to get those unsold cabriolets moving with a new dash, top and windshield scheme. Excess production, they called the weekend racer, now the most valuable style.

Nevertheless, the Funky Body Kit you refer to was revolutionary. It was the first truly aggressively styled vehicle, period. Everything else with flaring wheel arches has come after it (I've discussed this with Bill Porter, the GM designer of the Flame Red Car, aka Toronado). It still does not look dated, as stated in the Wall Street Journal article. (And that's true for bath tub Porsches as well, they have never looked old fashioned.) VX 02 was the first open top off roadster (kinda Porsche speedster like chopped windshield etc.) and now the Evoque apes the VX02. You have to give Simon Cox and ITAL designs credit... and not a footnotes worth, either. That's why Motor Trend has pronounced the VX a future classic and for good reason, too.

[Ldub]

It was the first truly aggressively styled vehicle, period. Everything else with flaring wheel arches has come after it

Ummmmm...srsly...

Yer painting a picture using a pretty broad brush...

I seem to remember an aggressively styled vehicle back in the sixties with flared wheel arches...the thing looked like it would snap yer head off & squeeze whatever was left like a pimple...

It looked like this...



IMO, vehicular sweetness has been around for a while...

[Ldub]

The rover looks like a chrysler pacifica, with 2 missing doors & better front & rear styling...

[Vendetta]

The rover looks like a chrysler pacifica, with 2 missing doors & better front & rear styling...

Hey man, leave the weird comparisons to the journalists, remember?

(Sorry 'Turb... I've been bottling the sardonicism all day at the office. Figured we're all friends here though. We're cool. )

[Chopper]

Willys/Overland beat Isuzu to the 4x4 roadster/speedster/coupe thing....by about 55 years. They called it a Jeepster. Def an icon and def moved a bunch of bars forward, to the International Scout, the Ford Bronco, the Blazer, the FJ Land Cruiser.....Crosley had a few.....Mitsu had the old Montero (which Mopar sold as well) Power Wagons could ONLY be called aggressive.
VX was the first of the new millenia maybe, but nowhere near first in anything I can think of....even Rav4s had a plastic lower half in like '94
The VX is a cool looking vehicle. (I worked for Isuzu of Daytona while they were being made. I knew I was getting one, the instant I saw it.) It has been a perfectly reliable friend. I will likely not sell it for a very long time.
I just think it more or less ends there