For reasons of general usefulness, fairness and accuracy, however, what youвЂ™re about to read will actually be a slightly truncated three-car comparison with an addendum on an interesting if unconventional new Lexus вЂ“ the UX 250h вЂ“ which, as it turns out, isnвЂ™t really a compact SUV at all.

Lexus to reveal new electric concept next weekД«ut, well, yes, youвЂ™re right: as it happens, there are four cars in the photograph youвЂ™ve been glancing at for the past minute or so.

Lexus LF-Z concept previews brand's electric future.

Lexus and RCA reveal design concepts for вЂfuture of luxury mobilityвЂ™.

Yet while picturing it abandoned on double yellows, astride the kerb and hazards ablaze outside a primary school might have been more appropriate, such a photograph wouldnвЂ™t have looked half as pretty or been as much fun in the making. As such cars go, the Evoque is capable, rugged and versatile, but itвЂ™s very much an everyday road car. Because while the second-generation Range Rover Evoque may be all-new and all-important for its creator, itвЂ™s every inch a compact SUV and not an вЂoff-roaderвЂ™. This particular clichГ© should certainly be acknowledged for what it is, though: a bit of artistic licence.

In this line of work, some visual clichГ©s are simply too well-worn to resist. It therefore includes obligatory photographs taken off-road, in a Welsh limestone quarry known well to staffers of this magazine, for which the Autocar road test desk and photography department send their apologies. Warning: the comparison test youвЂ™re about to read involves a Land Rover.

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