The Range Rover GT: Everything We Know About The Brand’s New Grand Tourer

Range Rover’s new model is its most radically different design to date. Along with a much lower profile, the Range Rover GT also features the brand’s most reductive interior yet, and is the first Range Rover built on its new all-electric EMA platform. We spent the day at the brand’s HQ to hear from Range Rover’s global managing director, Martin Limpert about the new model, and why creative expression is now core to the brand.

Introducing The Range Rover GT

Range Rover has confirmed a fifth member of its family: the Range Rover GT, a grand tourer built on the brand’s new EMA platform. The GT joins Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Velar and Range Rover Evoque as the fifth model in the family. It’s the first Range Rover built on the brand’s new EMA platform, and will launch as a battery electric vehicle (BEV), with a hybrid electric option planned for later in its lifecycle. It’s manufactured in Halewood, UK, alongside the brand’s existing ICE, hybrid and electric models.

Prototypes are currently completing final global road testing, wrapped in a camouflage design inspired by the landscape surrounding Gaydon, home to Range Rover’s creative and engineering teams. The flowing gold pattern is drawn from the area’s topographic contours, evoking what the brand calls the car‘s ‘sense of journey’.

The Interior

The cabin is a real point of difference for the brand. It’s built on what Range Rover calls reductive principles, the same purity and precision that shape the car’s exterior, translated into a ‘sanctuary of calm’. A single screen replaces the traditional instrument cluster, paired with a driver display. A concealed air vent runs the full width of the cabin, a clean horizontal line that’s become a Range Rover signature. The dashboard is wrapped in a single woven textile, tactile and architectural, that hides the speakers within its form. The result, Range Rover says, is reduced visual and acoustic noise, and easier access to the car’s functions.

Martin Limpert described the GT as: ‘the most car-like, yet unmistakably capable, Range Rover ever created,’ adding: ‘We have spent the last few years working obsessively on the fundamentals of the GT formula, reinterpreted in a sophisticated, uniquely Range Rover way. Its blend of effortless EV performance, first-class long-haul refinement and all-terrain capability is pure Range Rover, while its calming interior previews our vision of a modern grand tourer.’

Cars As Self-Expression

We also heard Limpert speak on a panel as part of the brand’s partnership with Wimbledon, chaired by Sujata Burman alongside Mary Ann Dunkley, Design Director at Liberty, and Scott Simpson, Brand and Retail Director at The King’s Foundation, on what modern British luxury means today. For Limpert, self-expression sits right at the centre of it, which is why they are expanding their portfolio of vehicles. ‘People want to express themselves,’ he said. ‘The way I dress, the car I drive, the music I hear, these are all ways to show my personality, and we want to contribute to this with Range Rover.’ 

Martin points to personalisation as the mechanism: ‘When you have a chance to curate a one-on-one personalisation of your vehicle, with the colours, the tones, the materiality, the messaging, are you a sporty person or a serene person, you can bring all this in and curate your own kind of expression of you in a vehicle.’

Asked about the future of British luxury, Limpert named three pillars: ‘British design, British engineering and British craftsmanship… personalisation opportunities to help people express themselves, and meaningful innovation, to be the innovation engine.’ He was equally clear on what won’t change: ‘The one thing we will never sacrifice on is creating timeless objects of desire with British originality.’

What Don’t We Know?

Range Rover hasn’t confirmed pricing, range or a launch date for the GT. More details are promised later this year, so we’ll update you as soon as they land.