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.
Petrol or diesel, this car is thirsty, due mainly to its sheer weight and size. In spite of the official figures claiming more, in real-life driving we don't think you'll get much more than about 15mpg from the V8, you're lucky to see 10mpg from the supercharged model, and even the diesel struggles to achieve much more than 20mpg. Servicing costs are, however, lower than those for luxury saloon competitors from BMW and Mercedes. And significantly, Range Rovers still hold their value better than most other large 4x4s, which will further reduce whole-life costs. It's not a cheap car, this, but in the context of what it can do, and the advanced technology it packs, it's not bad value. Equipment highlights include eight airbags, automatic dual-zone air-conditioning, leather, electric front seats, cruise control, anti-lock brakes and a tyre-pressure monitoring system on the standard SE. The HSE adds front seat heaters, memory adjustment of seat, steering wheel and door mirrors, parking sensors and bi-xenon lights, while the Vogue gets a leather upgrade, the sat-nav system, a heated steering wheel (!), heated rear seats and an electric sunroof. And there's much scope for personalisation with paints, leathers and woods.
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