Category: Large Executive 
Price Range: £46,045 to £75,695
Style, presence, tenacious off-road ability, fine on-road manners, cabin quality, robustness - and sense of well-being it engenders.
Fuel consumption, especially of V8, reliability questionmarks, fiddly air-conditioning.
The Range Rover is back on top as the most desirable - and pricey - off-roader.
No question - in a big, heavy car, you stand a better chance in a crash. Couple this with the RR's excellent body strength and the provision of no fewer than eight airbags, and you have very good crash protection, as reflected in the Range Rover's four-star EuroNCAP crash programme results. However, it shouldn't come as a surprise that pedestrian impact performance is described as 'dire.'. Helping you avoid a crash (and, hopefully, pedestrians) are permanent four-wheel drive, anti-lock brakes, emergency brake assist, skid-correcting dynamic stability control - which has been engineered to deal with the varied surfaces a Range Rover might cross - electronic brake-force distribution and, off-road, the hill-descent control. For a big off-roader, the RR provides exceptional roadholding and stability, too. Thief-proofing includes deadlocks and an immobiliser.
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