Range Rover Review 2026: Prices, specs & verdict

What is the Range Rover?

Even somebody with no interest in cars has probably heard of the Range Rover. It’s become a byword for the luxury 4x4, but to add confusion the Range Rover name has become a sub-brand in its own right.

In recent years we’ve seen the smaller, cheaper Range Rover Evoque, Velar and Sport models sell in big volumes. This has allowed Land Rover to move the full-size (sometimes known as ‘full-fat’) Range Rover even further upmarket.

While this means wealthy farmers and landowners are now more likely to opt for something like the Land Rover Defender, or a posh pick-up truck, the Range Rover has moved into another market entirely. It’s a true ultra-luxury model, found in the gated driveways of celebrities, sportspeople and captains of industry.

To that end, the latest model is more technically advanced and feature-packed than ever before, yet is still capable of leaving a typical SUV for dead off-road. Does that make it the default posh 4x4? Our in-depth review puts the latest Range Rover through its paces.

Verdict: is the Range Rover a good car?

In terms of image and kerb appeal, very few cars can match the all-round appeal of a Range Rover. But there’s plenty of substance behind that classy design.

It’s very comfortable and refined, gives you a fantastically commanding view out and is loaded with the latest luxury touches and tech features. It’s spacious, too, while the new option of seven seats adds real flexibility. The fact that it manages to compete with the best luxury cars while also being one of the best off-roaders on sale remains quite a feat – but you’ll pay for the premium.

Pricing, specs & rivals

Land Rover has pushed the full-fat Range Rover further upmarket over time, and today it’s impossible to get one new for less than six-figures. This is no farm workhorse anymore.

Range Rover prices kick off that £112,760 at the time of writing, which gets you in an SE D300 in standard wheelbase form. HSE trim adds around £6,000 to that price, with Autobiography models starting at just over £125,000.

Although the D350 diesel is a relatively affordable £3,000 upgrade, you’ll need another £10k on top of the D300 to get access to the P460e petrol plug-in hybrid. Autobiography trim also unlocks a more powerful P550e plug-in hybrid and the P530 petrol, from £138,665 and £145,145 respectively.

Long wheelbase (LWB) variants start at £120,000 for an HSE (SE is standard wheelbase only) D350 in seven-seat form. You’ll pay more for the LWB five-seat version, though, because that’s only available in Autobiography and above from £131,000.

The top-ranking Range Rover SV really pushes the boat out, kicking off at £161,865 for the P550e and £174,345 for the most powerful P615 petrol. Naturally, there’s also an SV Black Edition from £188,000.

None of these prices are that representative, though, because more often than not Range Rover customers will tick at least a few options. And there are many to choose from. In fact, it’s easy to spec one to well over £200,000.

Rivals

Lower-spec Range Rovers could be considered rivals to ‘mass-market’ luxury SUVs such as the BMW X7, Volvo XC90 and Mercedes-Benz GLS. You’ll certainly want to consider if the Range Rover badge is worth the extra over those cars.

Once you venture above Autobiography spec, though, you’re in a different pricing league altogether. The Bentley Bentayga is the closest rival, and the Range Rover only looks ‘affordable’ next to cars like the Rolls-Royce Cullinan.

Interior comfort, quality & technology

You’d think it was the luxury that first strikes you when you climb aboard the Range Rover, but it’s actually the driving position and view out.

No other big SUV gives you such a commanding raised driving position and a superb view forward, with big mirrors and rear windows also giving you a confidence-inspiring view out. It’s not even that awkward to climb in and out, because the ‘Access Height’ suspension setting quickly lowers the car to make it easier – if still a bit of a stretch,

The feeling of being at the helm of something so grand is helped with the lavishly soft and comfortable seats. 20-way electric adjustment is standard, with 24-way adjustment and massaging on the options list. The steering wheel adjusts electrically in all versions, too. Our only gripe is that lumbar and headrest adjustment can only be done in a touchscreen menu.

Interior finish is largely fantastic, with lavish soft-touch leather over the dash and doors, thick pile carpets, real metal finishes and elegant wood veneers. You have to really delve deeper to find any sense of cheaper materials. Only the odd detail, like the flimsy steering wheel buttons, mean a Bentley Bentayga feels even more luxurious inside.

Infotainment, sat-nav, stereo and connectivity

Every Range Rover features a 13.1in, landscape-oriented touchscreen infotainment system sitting proud of the dash. As you’d expect, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto feature, as does Amazon Alexa voice control.

It’s a slick system in the main, with classy graphics, quick response times and mostly big, easy to prod menu icons. There’s plenty of features, too – and our only criticism is it can take a while to boot up initially.

While earlier versions of this generation of Range Rover also have easy-to-use physical climate controls below the screen (as pictured) these have been removed for more recent models, with climate functions integrated into the screen and a blank trim panel in their place. That’s a bit of a blow for usability, and a strange decision mid-way through the car’s life.

All versions get a clear and configurable 13.7in driver’s display, while the Technology Pack (standard on Autobiography) adds a head-up display, a digital rear-view mirror with camera view and domestic three-pin sockets for rear seat passengers. A further option is rear-seat entertainment screens.

You’ll find up to eight USB-C sockets dotted about the cabin (six if you opt for a four or five-seat model) and a wireless phone charging pad up front. Of course, there’s also a smartphone app, which can optionally feature a remote pre-heating and cooling function for the car.

With 11 speakers and 400 watts, the standard Meridian sound system is decent enough. We’d recommend upgrading to the 16-speaker, 750-watt 3D surround sound system for a more luxurious soundscape, however.

Autobiography models further upgrade this to the Signature sound system, with an impressive 34 speakers and 1600 watts.

How practical is the Range Rover?

The standard wheelbase Range Rover has dimensions of 2,047mm in width with the mirrors folded, 1,867mm in height and 5,052mm in length. By any measure it’s a large car, but a BMW X7 is even longer.

The long wheelbase Range Rover trumps the X7, though, with its 200mm length increase making it 5,252mm long. Even so, it’s a little shorter than long-wheelbase luxury saloons like the BMW 7 Series.

Regardless, there’s masses of space inside. Those up front will find plenty of legroom, acres of headroom even with the seat in its highest position, and an exceptionally wide cabin. There will be no fighting over armrests, either, because each seat has individual ones that can be stowed away.

Even in the standard wheelbase car, a pair of tall adults in the rear will find plenty of spare legroom and enough headroom to avoid rubbing their heads on the roof. The seats are extremely comfortable and supportive, too, with electrically adjustable backrests. And while the big side windows give you an airy feel, optional electrically deployable blinds give you instant privacy.

Opting for the long-wheelbase model gives you the choice of a very lavish four-seat layout with a big divider where the middle seat would be. Or, for the first time on a Range Rover, you can choose a seven-seat layout.

Land Rover has designed this new third row of seats primarily with children in mind. They’re mounted higher than the front seats for a better view, so headroom is a bit restricted for anyone over six-foot. There’s enough legroom for adults if the middle seats are shuffled forwards a bit, but a BMW X7 is roomier still in that third row.

Storage and boot space

There’s plenty of places to store odds and ends in the Range Rover’s cabin. You get not one but two gloveboxes, a massive under-armrest cubby space, a place to store your wallet and charge your phone, lidded cupholders and even a large hidden space underneath the cupholders.

The centre armrest cubby can optionally become a chilled drinks compartment, too – a proper luxury touch. Our only complaint is that the door bins are on the shallow side.

The door bins aren’t that much smaller in the second row of seats, though, while you get the usual pockets on the front seatbacks and an armrest with two cupholders and a shallow storage space.

Opting for the four-seater long-wheelbase model gives you a big divider with loads of storage areas, a fancy electrically deployable table and a big champagne fridge with an electric door. In the seven-seat model, those rearmost seats get their own air vents and cupholders.

The big draw of the Range Rover’s boot is that electrically operated, split-folding tailgate. It gives you easy access to the boot in tight space, and the tailgate makes a useful seat that’s capable of taking the weight of two adults. Speaking of which, you can option ‘Tailgate Event seating’ with padded cushions and cupholders to really get comfortable back there.

The boot floor also has a useful double hinged portion that serves as that seat’s backrest but also gives you under-floor storage and a divider for luggage. The capacity is vast: 725 litres up to the parcel shelf regardless of which wheelbase size you choose. In the seven-seater, there’s still a useful 212 litres of space behind that third row.

It’s easy to fold those rearmost seats electrically via buttons in the boot, while 40/20/40 split folding on the middle row is handy. You can also drop the rear suspension to make lifting heavy items in and out easier. The only problem is that with the bottom part of the tailgate folded down, you’ll struggle to reach right towards the back of the boot.

Performance & drive: What is the Range Rover like on the road?

Every version of the Range Rover gives effortless performance, and even the entry-level D300 is perfectly brisk for a big luxury SUV.

With 300hp and a punchy 650Nm of torque from a 3.0-litre straight-six diesel, the D300 manages 0-62mph in 6.6 seconds. You’ll knock that down to six seconds dead with the D350 thanks to its extra 50hp and 50Nm. The long-wheelbase version is only fractionally slower.

The plug-in hybrid models are even faster. Both use a 3.0-litre straight-six petrol engine boosted by a 160hp electric motor. As the names suggest, the P460 puts out 460hp and the P550 a stout 550hp. Respective 0-62mph times of 5.5 seconds and 4.8 seconds are about as fast as we’d ever want a full-fat Range Rover to be.

Nevertheless, these cars are about excess for some. And that’s where the V8 petrols come in. With a 4.4-litre twin-turbo unit sourced from BMW, the P530 offers up 530hp and the P615 in the SV pushes that to 615hp. 0-62mph is done a sports car-baiting 4.4 and 4.3 seconds respectively. They sound great while doing so, too.

All Range Rover engines put power through all four wheels via an eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox. It gives super smooth changes and always seems to choose the right gear, although the exception to that is the odd time you need a rapid kickdown at low speeds.

All also have strong, powerful brakes with a natural pedal feel, while the throttle response is tuned to allow chauffer-like gentle acceleration when you’re just mooching about town.

Power, 0-62mph times

• Range Rover D300: 300hp, 6.6 secs
• Range Rover D350: 350hp, 6.0 secs
• Range Rover P460e: 460hp 5.5 secs
• Range Rover P550e: 550hp, 4.8 secs
• Range Rover P530: 530hp, 4.4 secs
• Range Rover P615: 615hp, 4.3 secs

Ride and handling

All Range Rovers are long, wide and tall cars with plenty of mass, so town driving is not their natural habitat. Width restrictors, for example, are best avoided unless you’re incredibly good at judging distance.

Despite this obvious handicap, even the long-wheelbase Range Rovers are surprisingly wieldy thanks to standard-fit rear-wheel steering. This turns the back wheels the opposite way to the fronts at low speeds, giving a sub-11m turning circle that’s about the same as a VW Golf.

Cruising is the Range Rover’s natural habitat, but it’s not as cumbersome on twisty country roads as you might expect either. Active anti-roll bars mean that it changes direction reasonably well, despite plenty of body lean in the process. The steering is accurate, too, if light and less confidence-inspiring than a BMW X7’s.

Every version offers ride comfort that’s almost always luxurious and plush, with the standard adaptive air suspension smothering lumps and bumps at low speed while avoiding being too floaty at high speed. Having said that, the larger wheel options (up to 23in) can let sharp bumps through into the cabin a little bit more than the best-riding luxury cars.

Where the Range Rover really muscles ahead of cars like the X7 is off-road. A standard low-ratio gearbox, Terrain Response modes and high approach and departure angles with the suspension raised means it won’t be fazed by even the toughest terrain, while a 900mm wading depth is more than enough for the average rural ford.

The optional Advanced Off-Road pack brings active differentials, off-road cruise control and even more advanced suspension hardware for serious mud-plugging, but most people won’t need this.

Noise and refinement

You’d expect a Range Rover to be a very quiet cruiser, but with such a high-sided body there’s no guarantee. Even so, it’s impressively refined at all speeds, with barely any road noise noticeable and engines that, by and large, are only audible when you want them to be.

That being said, there is a tiny amount of wind noise if we’re being fussy, and the diesels let a touch more noise and vibration into the cabin than the petrols. Upgrading to the Signature sound system adds microphones in the wheels to monitor external noise and play opposing frequencies though the headrest-mounted speakers – a nice touch.

Euro NCAP: is the Range Rover a safe car?

The latest Range Rover achieved the maximum five-star safety rating when crash tested by Euro NCAP. You’d expect nothing less at this price, although there are no ratings from similar rivals to compare it to.

Category scores of 84% for adult occupant protection and 87% for child protection are strong, but protection of vulnerable road users suffers a bit due to its large frontal area.

Every version gets extensive safety features including autonomous emergency braking for both forward and reverse, lane keep assistance, intelligent speed assist and traffic sign recognition, rear cross-traffic alert and blind spot monitoring.

To help you avoid prangs in the first place, every Range Rover also has a 3D surround view camera with a transparent bonnet, along with multiple sensors.

Running costs and fuel economy

Running costs are probably not top of the list of priorities for a Range Rover buyer, but it’s still worth thinking about which version suits your needs.

The diesel variants are more efficient than ever on paper thanks to mild hybrid tech, with both the D300 and D350 promising up to 38.2mpg on the official WLTP combined test. In our experience that’s a broadly achievable figure if you’re gentle, too.

The plug-in hybrids have plenty of appeal too. In standard wheelbase form with the smallest wheels on offer, the P460e promises up to 386mpg on the same economy test thanks to its impressive range on a charge of up to 74 miles. Some PHEVs go even further, but none that weigh this much.

Despite the performance focus, the more powerful P550e promises a similarly strong 376mpg and an electric range of 72 miles. CO2 emissions of just 17g/km hold clear appeal for business users too – just bear in mind that you’ll be looking at closer to 30mpg once the huge 31.8kWh usable battery is depleted.

Those plug-in hybrids are also able to use public rapid chargers, with a peak speed of 50kW allowing a 40-minute top-up from empty to 80%. You’ll need five hours for a full charge from a typical home wall box.

The mild hybrid V8 petrols are undoubtedly and indulgent choice. The P530 promises up to 25.1mpg, with the P615 reducing that to 24.1mpg.

Bear in mind that higher spec and long wheelbase variants reduce all these economy figures by a bit, too. But if you’re looking to spend six figures on a car, you probably aren’t phased by this.

How much does the Range Rover cost to insure?

It won’t come as a surprise that Range Rovers generally aren’t cheap to insure. In fact, all versions of the latest Range Rover sit in the maximum insurance group of 50.

That applies to most rivals, from the BMW X7 to the Bentley Bentayga. However, there are well publicised reports of high Range Rover insurance quotes depending on where you live and where the car is parked due to a high risk of theft. It’s worth doing your car insurance research before buying or leasing.