![]() The Range Rover has always been about comfort and calm rather than spearing down B-roads, and this new car, with its superb seats and eerily effective active noise-cancelling tech, is playing to its strengths. Or you could say that next to the new Range Rover, the Porsche Cayenne or Aston DBX would feel too tightly wound. Next to a Porsche Cayenne or Aston DBX, the new Range Rover would feel rather boaty. You can hustle it, and it’s certainly got the power to let you drive like you’re very late for something very important, but its size and general bearing don’t encourage such behaviour, even with the subtle tightening of reactions brought on by selecting Dynamic mode. This is still a tall, two-and-a-half tonne 4x4. Frankly, most needs would be met by the agreeable 3-litre sixes but there’s a certain daft delight in pointing this V8 leviathan at a long straight and getting it to summon distant objects towards you with a muted buffalo bellow.ĭon’t go thinking that Land Rover has accidentally built a leathery drift machine, however. It’s not as charismatic as the old engine but it pulls harder and is claimed to be 17 per cent more efficient. ![]() In 2024 there’ll be a full electric version and, assuming the 2030 ICE ban holds, that’ll be how this car will see out its days in Britain and many other countries.įor now, however, you can still have your Range Rover with a trad V8, though it’s not completely traditional because the old 5-litre supercharged bruiser from the last car has gone, usurped by BMW’s twin-turbo N63 from the M850i et al, bought in and modified to Land Rover’s needs. In a few months the same engine will be available in a plug-in hybrid with the battery capacity to cover a claimed 70 miles on electricity alone. You can have a 3-litre diesel straight-six in 296 or 345bhp outputs, or a delightfully smooth petrol of the same capacity and configuration that makes 395bhp with help from a turbo and an electric supercharger. Mercifully, the engine choices are a little more straightforward.
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