Land Rover Range Rover review

More than ever, the financial numbers on the Range Rover are academic. People who buy football teams, media companies or private jets buy Range Rovers. It’s priced accordingly, and makes for eye-opening reading. Let’s run through it.

The entry-level car – if you can call it that – is the SE trim combined with the D300 powertrain, which starts at £105,675. Things march quickly up from there. A D350 is just over £3,000 more, and the first chance you get to spec the plug-in hybrid is the SE in P460e form. That costs £115,915.

The step up from SE to HSE trim is about £6,000 and adds fancier leather, a better sound system and 22in wheels. That, as a P460e hybrid (probably the happiest blend of logic/cost) is already £121,635. Your only other engine options here are still the two diesels. 

Want a V8 or the more powerful PHEV? You'll need to leap to Autobiography trim. The P530 petrol V8 is on offer here at £145,145 in standard wheelbase form. You'll need to go for Autobiography if you want a long wheelbase car with four or five seats, with prices starting at £131,055 for the D350. 

The top spec SV starts at £161,865 in standard wheelbase form, or £178,290 for the long wheelbase, but there are so many options and chances to personalise your spec that you can quite easily tip that above the £200k mark, particularly if you upgrade from the P550e PHEV to the P615 V8. The latter is over £10k more than the hybrid. 

If you're after seven seats it's long wheelbase only, but this passenger layout means you can have it in a lower HSE trim. That still means a minimum of £120k, though. Ouch. 

This is a car with very attractive margins for its maker. Back in 2003, the cheapest Range Rover TD6 SE cost £44k, which is £79k in inflation-adjusted 2025 money according to the Bank of England. In 2013, the 3.0 TDV6 Vogue cost £71,295, which equates to £98k in 2025. In other words, Range Rover is backing its massive tech and engineering investment and upmarket push with some punchy pricing.

It’s a solid ownership proposition, though; Range Rovers, like almost all Land Rover products, have class-leading residuals. Not least because it’s a handsome beast alongside the more challenging (and considerably more expensive) Rolls-Royce Cullinan and Bentley Bentayga.

A luxury SUV isn’t exactly reading the room, but the latest car is much more efficient. The D350 emits 211g/km of CO2, and has a claimed average of 35.1mpg. The P530’s CO2 emissions are 269g/km, and it’ll do about 23.8mpg. The P460e plug-in PHEV, emits 16g/km and has a claimed average of, wait for it, 324.7mpg. Although of course, that all depends on how often you actually plug it in.