Land Rover has made some subtle changes to its Evoque line-up for the 2025 model year, banishing the previous flagship petrol/electric plug-in hybrid - the mighty P300e - to the history books, and replacing it with the P270e. The firm isn’t alone in reacting to EU6e regulations - which ensure vehicles meet certain environmental standards - by tweaking its model line-up. But buyers originally gunning for the more powerful model needn’t worry; changes to the new crown-stealer aren’t as obvious as they might appear on paper.
![[Range Rover Evoque P270e ]](https://static.standard.co.uk/2024/12/20/15/03/RR_EVQ_24MY_DYNAMIC_HSE_210623_04.jpeg?quality=75&auto=webp&width=960)
The previous P300e model boasted a rip-snorting 305 bhp from its smooth, petrol/electric, three-cylinder engine, sufficient for a claimed 0-60 mph in 6.1 seconds and top speed of 132 mph. The new P270e plug-in hybrid - shorn of some of that power - is still blisteringly fast. Generating ‘just’ 273 bhp, it still manages to rocket from 0-60 mph in 6.8 seconds, and on to the same, electronically limited top speed of 132mph, a figure that is, surely, academic in a nation officially restricted to 70mph on its fastest roads. And how many of us can - really - tell the difference between 6.1 seconds and 6.8 seconds...
![[Range Rover Evoque P270e ]](https://static.standard.co.uk/2024/12/20/15/00/RR_EVQ_24MY_DYNAMIC_HSE_210623_10.jpeg?quality=75&auto=webp&width=960)
Power - in any case - is not what the latest Evoque is all about, especially with Benefit-in-Kind savings for business users making the plug-in hybrid version particularly appealing. It’s about luxury, refinement, pedigree and ‘clean’ living, thanks to that plug-in facility.
![[Range Rover Evoque P270e ]](https://static.standard.co.uk/2024/12/20/15/16/RR_EVQ_24MY_06_INTERIOR_210623.jpeg?quality=75&auto=webp&width=960)
And while the latest Evoque might not look too far removed from the first generation that hit the streets in 2011, under the skin it has accrued deeper levels of refinement and technology, making it more deserving than ever before of the Range Rover badge that adorns the firm’s glamorous, full-size model of the same name.
![[The revamped Stratstone Land Rover Mayfair dealership]](https://static.standard.co.uk/2024/12/20/16/42/Inside-the-revamped-dealership-(6).jpeg?quality=75&auto=webp&width=960)
