![]() Big, but still less than both a Bentley Bentayga (5141mm) and a BMW X7 (5151mm). It was before but it’s even more so now, at 5052mm long in standard-wheelbase form, with a 2997mm wheelbase, to which the long-wheelbase version adds 200mm. We will deal a bit more with its off-road credentials in the designated section, but the car is fitted with Land Rover’s adjustable drivetrain, traction, stability and suspension control system called Terrain Response II. Active all-wheel steering can pitch the rear wheels to oppose the fronts at up to 7.3deg at low speeds to give the standard-wheelbase car an 11.37-metre turning circle – the same as most small family cars – while there’s also torque vectoring via braking to aid turn-in, and an electronically controlled limited-slip rear differential. ![]() At the front are double wishbones, with a five-link set-up at the rear.Īs standard, there are also 48V active anti-roll bars, whose software looks at the sat-nav so they can prime themselves for upcoming corners. Suspension is by air springs – with no coil option – which can raise the car over its standard height by 135mm for off-roading, or lower by 50mm to ease entry and egress. Static torsional rigidity is up by 50% over the previous-generation car, at 33kN per degree. In addition to the aluminium, there are strengthening steel rings circling around the entire body at the C- and D-pillars, at the lower body beneath the A-pillars and around the edges of the front door apertures. We are about to test all those credentials and more in the toughest test in the business. That makes the Range Rover not just a high-end SUV but one that wants to be a luxury car, too. But thus equipped in HSE form and with a few choice options, it’s a £124,245 car by the time you get it on the road in the UK.Īnd one can go much further: this is a regular-wheelbase Range Rover but there’s a long one too, and a raft of petrol engines that make a lot more oomph again, before you even get into more bespoke Special Vehicle Operations territory. It’s the uppermost diesel, a D350, which means it has 350 metric horsepower, or 345 of the Queen’s nags – ample by most standards but still in the lower half of the new Range Rover’s line-up. We’re already aware that the latest Range Rover is a big car, more than five metres long and two metres wide across the body even in its more modest forms, which is what we have here. The questions are whether that is something it still needs to do today and, if so, just how much car does it take to do it? Land Rover sells cars in 130 countries and they all have different ways of doing things – and different amounts of space in which to do it.
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