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S’Charged Thunder

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FOR It’s a lovely object to look at and be in

AGAINST All that weight and heavy nose taint the dynamics

Let’s start with the name: Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic, or SVAD for short. This tells us a lot about the car’s positioning which I’ll now attempt to unpack in Land Rover’s increasingly fragmented vernacular. At its core this flagship Velar emerges from the Special Vehicle Operations skunkworks but drops the ‘Racing’ to strike a

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