Range Rover Holland & Holland Edition by Overfinch review: the most expensive Rangie in the world

What is it?

The most expensive Range Rover you can buy. Caveated with the all-in options, which include a pair of Holland & Holland ‘Royal’ shotguns which can reach anywhere between £340-£370k basic. But essentially this is a Range Rover SV long-wheelbase enhanced by Overfinch in a collaboration with ordinance-artificers Holland & Holland, with inspiration drawn from both camps.

Seeing as you’re looking at a combined 240+ years of UK expertise in the two areas of Land Rover fettling and gunsmithery, it’s a dream team. But more on that in a minute.

Interesting. But start with the car…

Right. Essentially you can commission this conversion with any extended Range Rover SV, either your own or new, but you’re probably going to want the SV P615 V8 like this one. Worth noting here that with the recommended accessory packs, a box-fresh SV will weigh in at £225k. So you get a 4.4-litre, twin-turbo, mild-hybrid V8, 615bhp and 553lb ft of torque. That equates to standard performance figures of 0-62mph from rest in 4.4 seconds and 162mph flat out – which are impressive given the architectural size of the thing.

You could conceivably have Overfinch wind that up if necessary, but it’s not what this car is about, and it’s got more than enough grunt to cope. Driving the car on a wintry British backroad found it to be absolutely sprightly enough – if not much different to the standard car.

One of the reasons is that this car is notably less about lap times and more about the luxury experience. So there’s British Racing Green paintwork and matte gold accents to trim pieces, surprisingly appropriate 23in bespoke wheels (with proper tyres) with self-levelling centre caps, scrollwork engraving on the aluminium side vents aft of the front wheels, more H&H badging on the rear three-quarter and a full-width lightbar at the back that features the Overfinch ‘blade’ logo in the middle.

There’s more Holland & Holland badging and some light grille modifications on the front, but essentially this just looks like a nicely classy Range Rover; it’s not lightly spackled with too much bodykit. Though it is surprising how small a set of 23s look in the arches. Again, this is not a small car.

So what makes it so expensive?

The inside. And here’s where figuring out an exact price for one of these gets a bit nebulous. Because although the ‘basic’ conversion for this RR is around £165k, when you get into the options and possibilities, not to mention local taxes and duties – it skyrockets.

So let’s try and run through it. First up, the interior gets a complete re-fit, inspired by H&H’s ‘Royal’ shotgun. So the quilting on the leather is inspired by the foregrip chequering on the gun – re-sized – the open-pore walnut throughout the interior the same as the firearm. And that includes the steering wheel, door pulls, trim bits and gear selector, which also gets its own little inlaid HH crest.

The leather on the interior can be had in basically any colourway by request, though the car is offered with full green with tan piping, tan with green piping or a front-to-back split as standard, and the metal trim pieces feature the same engraved scrollwork as the gun.

Although it’s not quite that simple; Overfinch and H&H didn’t just ape the engraving, it’s been scaled and re-worked to fit the shapes required. Because perfection isn’t cut-n-paste. And while H&H’s head of engraving artistry doesn’t actually make the larger pieces, she does oversee the hand-engraving of the little lozenges inlaid into the top of the door cards. So you do actually get a little bit of Royal shotgun embedded into the vehicle.

It’s a car that feels like it embraces texture and colour, and feels innately expensive. There’s a definite wow-factor when you open the door, even if that ‘wow’ feels like it should be enunciated properly with a public-school accent.

The rest is pretty much how you expect; carpets deep enough to lose toes. Embroidered gamebirds in the backs of the seats (partridge and grouse), electric tables that rise up from the centre console in the rear (as do the cupholders, somewhat pointlessly), a champagne fridge that appears like a magic trick from behind your elbows in the reclining back seats. And yes, this is the kind of car that probably warrants a chauffeur, seeing as what’s in the boot.

So what’s in the boot?

A lack of casual luggage space, to be frank. But what you get instead is a piggybacked set of ‘companion chests’. More walnut and leather… but with purpose. And these alone can be somewhere between £50k and £60k. Cough.

Top left is storage for two bottles of champagne, top right, eight flutes, a staghorn corkscrew and a pair of silver gamebird bottle stops. Tucked away in the end of that drawer is a little case with a triplet of cigars and a cutter. Just in case. Under that drawer is more H&H merch; so cutlery and plates, monogrammed napkins – that sort of thing, again, enough for eight guests.

Under that is a full-width drawer with eight crystal tumblers, two recesses for bottles of spirits (you see why a chauffeur might be a good idea here), and a couple of oversized silver shotgun cartridges that resemble the cannon shot you usually use for high-flying geese. They’re not. They are, in fact, hip flasks.

The end of the drawer appears to be a prep table (walnut, obviously), under which is storage for a pair of shotguns. Now technically you could put any old trench guns in there, but it seems odd to only go halfway when you’ve already spent so much, so you really want a pair of Royals.

Are the guns really that special?

Not so much ordnance as artwork. The detail is exquisite, the engraving next-level. These aren’t the bare brutality of a day-to-day firearm; they’re slim, small and perfectly formed. And they look, feel and even smell expensive – to the point where you’re very, very careful about how you handle them. At north of £370k the pair – and these are by no means as expensive as Holland & Holland shotguns and rifles get – they feel like museum-worthy items from new.

And, if you’re tooling around in this car fully stocked with the good stuff, it’s easily upwards of £800k of rolling stock. That’s a lot for a Range Rover.

What’s the background here? What are we paying for?

Interestingly, the two companies involved here are definitely the old-school. Overfinch has been modifying Land Rover products since the mid-seventies – 1975 to be exact – except it calls it ‘enhancing’. And you can get little but expensive mods for Range Rovers and Defenders old and new, engine upgrades, exhausts, interior re-trims and some very tasty wheel options. Even a billet Range Rover classic key for £600.

But if you go for the full programme, you get a car that’s apparently been redefined. For modern cars, that means a carbonfibre bodykit, engine tweaks and more diamond quilting for the leather on the inside than you can shake a bespoke, artisan, heritage stick at; you can tell the full conversion cars are expensive because they don’t tell you the prices.

But the 24in vortex wheels for the full-fat Range Rover are just under £20 grand on their own… and the exhaust is nearly nine grand. So you can imagine the rest.

Of perhaps more interest is something like the Heritage Classic Field Edition; a remastered ’93 LSE RR Classic with a 6.3-litre LS3 V8 stuffed in the front and more attitude than anything modern can manage. But in a world of cheaply-done modified Range Rovers, Overfinch has stood the test of time by being good at what it does. 

Holland & Holland is even older. It started out as a British armourer that made shotguns and rifles... in 1835. Which is before Darwin arrived in Australia. And their guns are more heirlooms than ordnance – insanely pretty chunks of hand crafted lethality. Waiting lists are the order of the day, POA the subtitle on stock, and you pay for the level of skill it takes to make one.

The Royal can be had in either side-by-side or over-and-under (denoting the configuration of the barrels), and there are more modern rifles (called ‘Takedown’) on offer with walnut stocks that conceal Formula One-grade carbonfibre chassis’ and titanium triggers, but look like they’ve been made in the 1800s. They make genuinely jaw-dropping bits of kit - even if you have an aversion to guns, you can appreciate them as works of art.

There’s history in the idea of collaboration too though…

Yep. Land Rover offered an H&H edition back in 1999 (P38) and Overfinch took over the idea in 2009 (L322). But there was a new five-year agreement announced in 2024 between Overfinch and Holland & Holland that should see more of the two working together. But not more of this particular car; there are only ever going to be 25 produced.

So... I guess the question is, can it be worth the money?

Something is always worth exactly what someone is prepared to pay. Take the guns and companion chests out of the equation and this is a lovely but expensive £400k special-edition Range Rover. But why would you do that? If you’re rich enough, this is one big showcase of artistry, and it goes together very nicely indeed. Go big or go home, embrace the concept and put the really expensive booze in the drawers.