First Look! Range Rover’s Hip New Evoque Minivan!

Rumors have been swirling–and in some cases, roiling–lately about a new Range Rover Evoque minivan.  Now, a Parksplug spy photo appears to confirm those rumors. It also appears to show a guy urinating off a stairway in the background.

We don’t know much–about anything, really–although one source tells us Range Rover originally planned to dub the six-passenger van the Evoqueswagon, but concerns arose that the name might be confused with VW’s upcoming electric E-Volkswagen, which, by the way, insiders say achieved 140 mpg-e during laboratory testing, but only 12 mpg-e during actual highway driving.

As with the standard Evoque, Ford’s twin-scroll 2.0 liter, 240-horse turbo four–which, as the name implies, has a couple of scrolls instead of just one–will be the sole powertrain, at least initially.  

However, we hear U.S. buyers will eventually be able to order the excellent (but currently Europe-only) Duratorq I-4 turbodiesel, although they’d probably also have to buy the minivan to get it.