Range Rover is building a low, electric grand tourer, and it looks nothing like an SUV
The most un-Range-Rover Range Rover yet
Range Rover has spent decades making tall, imposing luxury off-roaders. Its next model is something else entirely. The Range Rover GT is a low, sleek, coupe-shaped electric grand tourer with frameless doors and a 2+2 cabin, and it sits lower than an Evoque.
A grand tourer, not an SUV
Land Rover is unusually clear about the positioning: the GT is the fifth member of the Range Rover family, and it is conceived as a grand tourer rather than a conventional SUV. Expect coupe proportions with four frameless doors, a 2+2 interior layout, a body roughly as long as a Range Rover Sport but noticeably lower than an Evoque. The promise is long-haul refinement and what the company calls beautiful and engaging GT poise, with all-terrain capability still in the mix.
Electric first, built in Britain
The GT rides on Land Rover's new EMA, or Electrified Modular Architecture, and will be built at Halewood in the UK. It arrives first as a battery electric vehicle, with hybrid versions planned later in its lifecycle. That makes it a genuinely important car for the company's electric plans, and a welcome vote of confidence in British manufacturing.
Calm inside, quietly modern outside
The design language is described as reductive, built around purity, precision and quiet modernity. Inside, the emphasis is on calm: technology is hidden where possible, materials are tactile, including woven textile rather than leather on the dashboard, and visual and acoustic noise are deliberately reduced. There is a single central screen paired with a driver display replacing the traditional instrument cluster, and an air vent concealed in a horizontal line running the width of the dash.
Still testing, still secret
Prototypes are currently completing final global testing, wearing camouflage decorated with gold topographic contours inspired by the landscape around Gaydon. Land Rover has not released range, performance or pricing, promising full details later in 2026. Some reports suggest the GT could effectively replace the Velar in the line-up, but that has not been confirmed by the company.
AutoNext Take
This is a genuinely bold move, and we like it. Everyone else is busy turning saloons into crossovers, so a brand built on tall off-roaders going the other way, low and sleek and unapologetically a grand tourer, is refreshing. Electric power actually suits a GT beautifully, and the calm, screen-light interior philosophy sounds far more appealing than another wall of displays.
The obvious question is whether Range Rover buyers, who mostly want commanding height and presence, will follow it downwards. It also has to arrive with a better range figure than the Range Rover Sport Electric managed. Until we get the numbers later this year, we are cautiously very interested indeed.
