THE X-RAY FACTOR!

Ground-breaking ‘ X- ray vision’ in a car can be a mixed blessing. brilliant if you’re offroad and want to see the rough terrain ahead. Handy in town to avoid out-ofsight ofn kerbs and potholes when parking to avoid scuffing wheels. . but inching precariously more e than 150 ft above the vertiginous Corinth Canal in greece along a single-track disused railway y line? it’s scary stuff.

and i didn’t need to look down. n. The car — which also has ‘eyes in n the back of its head’, to see e what’s looming behind — did it for me.

For, in what is hailed as a world first, range rover’s new secondgeneration evoque compact SUV has a form of X-ray vision that allowed me to see through the bonnet to view on the dashboard screen what lies below.

The system, called ClearSight ground View — a £575 option —

uses cameras mounted in the front grille and on the door to project on to the touchscreen so the driver has a 180-degree view.

I was among the first to test drive this new SUV at its global launch this week in greece.

The evoque 4x4 also has a rearview mirror that transforms into a screen, displaying pin- sharp images from a camera above the Yikes! Ray drives the new Evoque SUV with ‘X-ray vision’ along a disused railway line over Greece’s Corinth Canal rear wi window. With a wider field of it through streams and small vision, it’s like watching a movie rivers: it can now wade through in CinemaScope. 60 cm of water.

These clever features should Priced from £ 38,600, the not overshadow how fun and supportive seats were clad practical it is to drive, though. in the vegan- friendly Cloud

The off- roading technology eucalyptus textile and ultra-fabrics made mincemeat of rough man-made cloths. it is roads and coped well with also the first Land rover with steep mountain inclines and artificial intelligence that learns rock- strewn tracks. i also took the driver’s habits over time.