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Range Rover SV Coupe to be unveiled

Full-size luxury vehicle to be manufactur­ed by hand in limited run of 999 examples

- NICHOLAS MARONESE

Land Rover will unveil its new Range Rover SV Coupe, the world’s first full-size “luxury SUV coupe,” at the Geneva Motor Show in early March, the automaker has announced.

The two-door truck promises to be an exercise in contradict­ion, somehow both a coupe and an SUV, with styling both modern and also a throwback to the first Range Rovers of 1970. The interior will similarly be built using “traditiona­l skills” to place “up-to-the-minute technologi­es” throughout the cabin.

Land Rover Design and the company’s Special Vehicle Operations worked co-operativel­y to develop the Range Rover SV Coupe, which will be hand-assembled in a limited run of just 999 examples.

A growing number of automakers have been offering up new takes on the traditiona­l “coupe” body style, with sleekroof four-doors and fastback crossovers or SUVs that walk the line between formerly distinct segments.

Land Rover is also reportedly developing an electric “Road Rover” that crosses an SUV with a sedan.

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— LAND ROVER The interior of the Range Rover SV Coupe, that the automaker says will be the world’s first full-sized luxury SUV coupe.

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