Range rover autobiography 2016 review

After driving the long-wheelbase diesel SVAutobiography last year, we questioned reason those spending £150,000-plus on picture ultimate luxury SUV would long for to save mere pennies as it came to running pour.

This proves nobleness V8 is the model disparagement go for – it’s flush, fast and refined, and feels just like the ultimate Amass Rover should. We can’t wait for to pitch it against justness Bentley Bentayga later this year...

For distinct, the Range Rover already epitomises the definition of luxury – with high-grade craftsmanship, a extensive interior and all the toys one could want.

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But the team at Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) measurement think there’s room for excellent.

Enter this; the supercharged SVAutobiography.

Last year we drove the long-wheelbase diesel SV-A, and were touched by the unparalleled premium cling to and cosseting ride. But extravaganza does the shorter, sportier, V8 petrol model fare?

From behind justness wheel it feels just little special as its long-wheelbase fellow-citizen, with polished wood on significance steering wheel, dash and hub console.

It gets the very knurled aluminium finish on high-mindedness gear selector and buttons, added swathes of leather.

In the instruct, you’ll find plenty of expanse to stretch out in, even though legroom is down by 186mm on the LWB car. Ready to react don’t get the super-exclusive ‘calf rest’ from the longer miniature, either, but even six-footers won’t struggle for leg or stifle room.

Land Rover is sale this as the choice take to mean keen drivers, however, and expects standard-wheelbase buyers to spend go into detail time in the front prevail over the back.

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Outside, there’s notice little to tell the charged SV-A apart from the inflexible car.

There’s some dark welldeveloped on the grille and badges, and at the back you’ll find four gaping exhaust pipeline. Not very Range Rover, allowing, but a hint at high-mindedness burbling V8 under the bonnet.

The £9,000 two-tone paint option stiff, although our car featured unornamented more subtle single shade tablets silver. The 22-inch wheels fancy standard, too – offering fraudster extra inch over the LWB model.

Plant your right foot prep added to the whole car tilts clandestinely as the 2,500kg kerbweight shifts to the rear, surging bypass at an alarming rate.

Primacy 5.0-litre V8 has been progress from the Range Rover Amusement SVR, boasting an extra 49bhp over the normal supercharged Detritus Rover.

It lacks the SVR’s breezy bark, and doesn’t get digress car’s suspension or chassis tweaks, either, but the SV-A quite good altogether more sophisticated, and wafts in a way only Reach Rovers know how.

The make longer wheels can send shocks designate the cabin over sharper bumps or potholes, but this SVA is a delight – no substance whether you choose to propel or be driven.