Category: Large Executive 
Price Range: £53,695 to £68,800
Not expensive by class standards, well made, wide range, a good drive.
Big-engined versions are still depreciating fast. Apart from rear room, offers little over the smaller BMW 5-Series.
Competent but somewhat undistinguished.
Though it seems very well put-together structurally, there have been some problems with this Seven; early V8 engines were troublesome, and there have been issues with catalytic converters, ECUs and suchlike. It scored poorly in a number of reliability and customer satisfaction surveys.
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wrote on 20 03 2007