S’Charged Thunder

Let’s start with the name: Velar SV Autobiography 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 level balance with luxury. In other words, to enhance the Velar’s current characteristics.

Mostly, it must be said, by inheriting the five-liter