The problem with American luxury SUVs isn’t the lack of luxury; it’s that they don’t always go far enough. The opulence is there, but it’s particularly middlebrow, or what a middlebrow customer thinks a sophisticated type might want in their leather-lined wagon. None of them feel impeccably finished.
That’s something you can’t say about Land Rover’s Range Rover, a car that, confusingly, is both a model and a sub-brand. Land Rover offers the Range Rover in SE, Autobiography, First Edition and SV models with either a short or long wheelbase. All models seat four or five; three-row versions are offered as well if you must seat seven.
Go ahead, investigate every nook and cranny and you’ll find that Land Rover’s chief creative officer, Gerry McGovern, and his design staff have thoroughly and faultlessly designed every square meter of this vehicle. You won’t find any cut-rate materials; there aren’t any. And what you see is breathtakingly modern, reduced to its absolute essence, as brevity is the soul of luxury. It’s why a menu at a fine dining establishment may only have a choice of five entrees, while an inexpensive diner might have 35.
