Obviously these come with inherent compromises, such as ‘ensuring it doesn’t topple over in a corner’. So it’s now less a case that the Range Rover is a high-riding S-Class and 7-Series rival, and more that the shape of luxury cars in 2022 is SUV. In the lifetime of the previous Range Rover, the kingdom was invaded by – in no particular order – the Bentley Bentayga, BMW X7, Aston Martin DBX, and if you’re really stretching the budget the Rolls-Royce Cullinan. That was fine when the shape of a luxury car was a ruddy great saloon barge.
The cliché that’s followed the last few Range Rovers around is that they’re no longer 4x4s first: they’re luxury cars that happen to be several feet in the air. And by avoiding nouveau riche vulgarity, this is the only luxury 4x4 you don’t feel like a complete merchant banker inside. The pebble smooth statesmanlike repose of this car will inform the new Sport, Velar, Evoque and beyond. What’s especially good news for the Land Rover faithful not on a royal budget is the Range Rover is the touchstone for all LR design. The most notable change in a design that is so reductive as to be dangerously close to ‘unnoteworthy’ is found dead rear, with slender light motifs shining through a heavily tinted black panel flush with the tapered boat tail. It’s all deeply tasteful, but should age more gracefully than the wanton aggression sold to you by BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Bentley. It’s refreshingly bereft of creases, lines and fussy detailing. From three quarters of the way round, it looks like the old one, albeit one that’s been ritually sandblasted until it’s smoother than a palace tablecloth. Fundamentally, it looks like a Range Rover. Land Rover talks about a “harmony of proportions” and “precise detailing to create the impression that the vehicle has been milled from solid”.
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