JLR will reportedly launch a compact off-roader as part of an expanded Defender family.
announced in June, JLR will turn its Range Rover, Discovery, and Defender nameplates into brands, to sit alongside Jaguar. We've already seen this with Range Rover becoming a pseudo brand for a family of models that include the Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Velar, and Range Rover Evoque, in addition to an actual Range Rover model.
Similarly, a future Defender brand might include the current Defender, the baby Defender , and perhaps aThe EMA platform reportedly set for the baby Defender is being developed for electric powertrains exclusively, as opposed to an earlier plan to also have it support gas engines. The platform will spawn its first vehicle in 2025. The vehicle will be from the Range Rover family and is thought to be the next-generation Range Rover Velar.
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