WOLVERHAMPTON, England—One can argue about whether or not Range Rover invented the luxury SUV category, but there’s no question that since the first Range Rover went on sale in 1970, the brand has made itself the standard that other luxury SUVs have to measure against. But what if Range Rover built something that wasn’t an SUV?

That’s exactly what it’s doing with the new Range Rover GT. Spy shots have been circulating for at least a year of what was believed to be an all-electric replacement for the Range Rover Velar. It turns out that was a misapprehension; the heavily camouflaged prototypes were examples of the Range Rover GT being tested at the Nürburgring and the Arctic Circle.

Will this be Range Rover’s answer to the Lucid Air and Porsche Taycan?
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Range Rover still isn’t ready to reveal an uncamouflaged GT, but the car you see is much less disguised than the boxy-looking prototypes seen in earlier spy shots.

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