Range Rover Evoque views please

Maybe you haven't, but they certainly will tow, they're are a LR.

We had an Evoque for 4 years, towed our Swift 480 effortlessly. And a very stylish, easy to drive car all round. 

Not sure about tugging the Unicorn though 🤔

We seen lots of Evoques being towed, mainly by breakdown trucks and transporters. They give a whole new meaning to the term “off road”. Sorry Pliers, you seem to have got a good one!😁

We left the LR brand years ago. They are not the vehicles they once were. Happy to have an old one though. Friends of ours have stuck loyally with LR, but their last FL2 had an awful lot of time in and out of dealers. They purchased extended warranty just for peace of mind. 

A personal view, admittedly.

As a match I would not choose it, for reliability I would not choose it. 

Products from Hyundai/Kia are significantly more reliable, and BMW and VAG products both ahead in my opinion.

Driving and finish they are very good but I value reliability above all other.  

All these Landrover and Rangerover knockers I wonder if there is a tinge of jealousy? I am on my 6th Discovery, all have been totally reliable and only one had a non standard repair bill needing two suspension dampers after 5 years of heavy work. There are few cars  which can come anywhere near them for towing ability. Just look at how many years the Discovery has won the Tow Car of the Year top place. The Discovery Sport has slightly better towing limits and much more room so I would prefer it over the Evoque. You see plenty posters on this site asking for solutions to towing issues from other brands (even large SUVs) but Landrover/RR are just made to tow. Once you have had one you will be reluctant to consider any other tow car.

Not jealous at all. As I said we have owned a total of six LR cars, including Range Rover, Defender, Discovery. All bar one were superb for what we needed them for, towing horse boxes and caravans, off roading, camping holidays. Our dismay set in with a Freelander, the important bits spent most of its time with us on the garage floor, leaving us with a quite nicely designed car but only two wheel drive. It’s was shockingly unreliable, never away from dealer. We actually traded it on one of its good days for a Jeep Patriot, which was a stunning car. That’s where our love affair with LR ended in divorce. They are not built like they used to be. We realised we could get so much more for our money, and better reliability.

Edit: I can’t post a photo of our new car, but I think you would like it. Copperhead Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, very niche, but a real off road vehicle. 😁

Is there any significance in the fact that those extolling JLR products appear to have had multiple models. Are they being swapped before they develop problems or because they have done so?

When you go to the motorhome and caravan show at the NEC, what vehicle is used to give towing lessons at the front of the show. It's not Land/Range Rover.  As for the tow car of the year awards, the manufacturer sends the vehicles not the club asking for them, and how can they give awards when not every car on the market is tested.

Well said. Not sure why people believe this drivel purporting to be reliability surveys, I have never been asked to partake in one nor has anyone I know. I suspect it is a way of justifying the purchase of a foreign built vehicle and that people who purchase these vehicles generally have lower expectations, witness the number of people on Club Together that are happy with sub standard tow bar wiring and the need for extra cooling etc on so called top end vehicles.
I remember years ago when the Nissan Terrano and Ford Maverick were manufactured on the same production line in Spain, the same vehicle with minor trim differences, the Press of the day consistently rated the Nissan version higher in all these surveys because it was perceived to be Japanese.
These unreliable surveys have not changed.

And What Car, Which and others use readers for survey data source material. However back to the OP. I have seen lots of FL2’s and Disco Sports towing but only recall one Evoque so you might struggle to get the response you seek. Given however the Evoque is fundamentally a poshed up FL2 i do not see the problem. Where i struggle with your logic is saying you cannot afford high end cars such as Mercs and Jags! A Jag EPace sits on modified Evoque platform, is in a similar price bracket and a GLA Merc competes with the Evoque as does a Beemer X2. Have you actually looked at their prices? 

I recently purchased a used Discovery Sport as a tow car. Whilst researching tow cars I obtained brochures and read the details of the Evoque. I was surprised when comparing the Evoque and Disco Sport most Evoque models had poor tow weights compared to the Disco.

Unfortunately I recently cleared out the brochures so cannot reference them.

Why not look on the LR website and look at the technical details tab of a used Evoque or look out the model details of the new ones.

https://used.landrover.co.uk/model-range-rover-evoque#/details/2971991

Glad you’re pleased with the new car, though you would be!

Will look out for you on our travels.

And here’s another photo of ours, pitched up on a very nice campsite in Cantabria.

In response to your question we do tow with a 2018 Range Rover Evoque, 2ltr 150 bhp.

Pulling power great, large mirror great for reversing, comfort excellent.

We arrived on site having driven in some strong winds on Friday evening with no problems.

Our Swift weight is 1450kg.

Would we get another evoque, yes we would with the only alternative for us being the Discovery Sport. For us nothing compares in this segment.

I can only speak from experience of a freelander and a disco sport.  Both excellent towcars and virtually trouble-free.  A friend has a discovery which so far has behaved impeccably over 65k miles.  Only complaint is that LR dealers are expensive, although their service has always been good.  I have towed a Bailey Olympus, Bailey Unicorn series 3 and a Coachman VIP 575 with these vehicles. 

So much depends on how one drives and looks after a car.  Over the years, I have made my own mind up about which cars appeal to me.  Among them were a Rover 820 (slated for reliability) which was excellent over 80k miles and a mercedes E-Class which rusted, experienced collapsed front suspension and which I eventually sold after spending a fortune trying unsuccessfully trying to have turbo-lag cured. I am wary of those who are pedantic about which makes are invariably reliable and which are not.