Date Published: 17th December 2010
The first very obvious thing to say about living with the latest Rangey is that it will cost a lot; our Autobiography test vehicle would cost £81,395. But you do get breathtaking luxury for your money. It’s been said that no car creates the same feeling of wellness as the Rangey, and you can see why: the seats are gorgeous, the dash materials are huggably soft… even the headlining is made of leather.
Luxury, then, is a given. But what about practicality? After all, there’s a lot of space in there just begging to be used.
Here, when they weren’t playing with the air-conditioned seats or, we kid you not, watching TV, our testers were less impressed. Oddment stowage is generally poor, and for all their electric adjustment the rear seats don’t actually have that much knee room. You think of this as being a chauffeur car, but that’s not how our testers felt as they sat with their shins pressed into the hard frame of the seat in front.
To carry cargo, those rear seats fold and tumble to leave a load floor that’s adequate but, given the size of vehicle, not very impressive at all. If there’s one area in which the Range Rover’s age next to the Discovery is thrown into focus, it’s here.
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