Range Rover Evoque wins Stuff Magazine Car of the Year award

Land Rover’s new Range Rover Evoque has been named Stuff Magazine’s 2011 Car of the Year at an award ceremony held at London’s Globe Theatre last night.

The award is yet another in the Evoque’s bulging award cabinet, with 23 international awards already under the belt. The Evoque fought off stiff competition from the likes of the Ferrari FF, Ford Focus, Renault Twizy, Nissan Leaf and Mini Coupe to claim the title of Car of the Year in the annual technology awards.

Scoring top honours, the Range Rover Evoque was chosen as the outright winner in the car of the year category due to its class leading technology, exhibiting novel features such as Terrain Response^TM providing all weather, all surface capability and Adaptive Dynamics^TM with Magnaride^TM giving an ever compliant ride. The judges consisting of the Stuff Magazine editorial team, with consultation from industry experts at Autocar, also praised Land Rover’s cutting edge Dual Screen^TM technology permitting the driver and passenger to see two different images on the same screen at the same time. The Evoque was also commended for its 825W Meridian audio system which is the first example of the collaboration between the two British marques.

Speaking at the award ceremony, Stuff Magazine Editor, Will Findlater, said: "For combining the off-road capabilities of a Range Rover and leading technology with the desirability of a Blade Runner space car, the Range Rover Evoque just had to win it for us."

Land Rover Design Studio Director, David Saddington collected the award and said: "The Stuff Gadget Award means a lot to us at Land Rover and it is fantastic to win Stuff Magazine’s inaugural Car of the Year Award.

I am really happy to pick it up on behalf of the entire Land Rover team who put so much hard work into the design and engineering – it is great to be recognised for leading edge and innovative technology wrapped in such a fantastic design."

Author: Faye Sunderland, November 4th, 2011
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