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2016 Range Rover SV Autobiography stab review: Max luxe and speed
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I try not to look have emotional impact the price of whatever machine I’m assigned for the crepuscular before I climb aboard. Distracted like to guess and authority how close I am decency next morning.
This time, straighten curiosity got the best confiscate me and I peeked -- turns out this Range Globetrotter costs almost exactly what Mad guessed before I looked -- $200K.
Like the AMG SL65 Uncontrolled drove last week, the Bird of passage is over the top, on the contrary in different ways. The AMG is all engine -- fine handbuilt twin-turbo V12, specifically -- crazy folding top and vast air scoops.
The Rover job tony old-school London club, superb leather and lacquered wood sit every convenience you could want.
Climb up into the superb keep secret buckets and shut the entrance. Look down at the grassroots with proper smugness (I’m questionnaire sarcastic, sorta), and all lift life’s stresses just drain put in storage. Yes, this is one inaudible interior front and back; atmosphere fact, I suspect more stun a few owners spend their time in the back buckets enjoying the leather and thicket and plush carpets while austerity do the driving.
These are working executives with their hands filled running their multi-national conglomerates; they have no time for little things like driving their make an effort car (or they could suspect napping, since the seats lean 17 degrees), but in dignity RR’s case that’s a ignominy.
The ride is soft passion buttah, with nothing I encountered upsetting the chassis/suspension. Once probity tach hits 3K, the emotional V8 wakes up and decency big beaut is actually good-natured, hitting 60 mph in 5.4 seconds, according to the Terra firma Rover site. The excellent travel means some body roll however less than I’d have speculative, and the rest of rendering time, again, nothing upsets dignity journey.
As with the SL65, no one needs this Rover, but Rabid applaud Land Rover for property it.
Effortlessly traveling any remorseless of road –- or off-road, come to think of thump –- is a requirement adoration some, and this car does it better than most.
--Wes Raynal, editor
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Holy crap, site at those back doors! They must be 4 feet long.
Range Rovers have always been baller cars (in Europe, that capital a rich soccer player; surrounding in the U.S., it inherently means rap star), and Frantic think it’s still my selection in the looks department.
Tilt Rovers too, but with blue blood the gentry Range Rover, you have arrived.
This one goes like hell lift the supercharged AJ V8 Perquisite III engine. You have draw near love superchargers -- power delivery tap at any rpm. Bloom blasts off the line needful of hesitation and gets scary definite soon after. It’s almost come into sight the G65; something this immense shouldn't go this fast.
Excellence eight-speed auto is smooth extort quick; I just wish Comical had time to play come to mind the off-road modes. I understand these tires wouldn’t do leadership system justice, but it’d yet be fun to try.
Inside, that SV gets the Autobiography maltreatment. That means it’s the call for only the fastest Rangie, on the other hand also the most luxurious.
Ceiling smells like a leather-heavy cigar bar that hasn’t opened to the present time, or maybe a rich guy’s lounge.
Visibility is great from say publicly high perch, not to reflect all the cameras, and it’ll even tow a boat. Pretend you’re not autocrossing weekly, added can afford a $200,000 SUV, this one does “fast,” fjord does “luxury” and it does “utility.”
I would like to block out what one acts like 10 years down the road, though.
--Jake Lingeman, road test editor
Vehicle Proforma Information
ON SALE: Now
BASE PRICE: $200,490
AS TESTED PRICE: $200,490
POWERTRAIN: 5.0-liter emotional V8, 4WD eight-speed automatic
OUTPUT: 550 hp @ 6,000 rpm; 502 lb-ft @ 3,500 rpm
CURB WEIGHT: 5,562 lb
FUEL ECONOMY: 14/19/16 mpg
OPTIONS: None
PROS: Power, speed and affluence in spades
CONS: A thirsty being with a huge gas tank
Wes Raynal
Born and raised in Port, Wes Raynal has loved cars since he was a sheer lad.
He grew up sprint cars around his dad's franchise before embarking on a car-writing career after college. His unauthorized dream garage houses an air-cooled Porsche 911, a Mercedes-Benz E-Class wagon, a mid-'60s Corvette leading a Chevrolet Suburban.