Of course, all owners of a Range Rover own a country stud, pursue an elitist sport in their free time and would never let anything come to Her Majesty, the Queen. Or so. In reality, the majority of the range buyers should be the British royal family wumpe his and the Range Rover is more of a comfortable travel and prestige vehicle than an off-road high seat. The Range Rover is one of the representatives of the genre: "We can do it right off-road too."
Short drive: Range Rover 5.0 SVAutobiography
No sports, please
You sit really high up. Pickup truck drivers look up. But this range is once again something special among its Range Rover brothers: long wheelbase, five-liter V8 with supercharging and an interior that makes some condominiums in Upper Manhattan appear poor. Welcome to the “LWF Autobiography”. The Range Rover with that “little more”. Of all.
It starts with the length. At 5.20 meters and the height of a single-family house, the Range Rover is an incredibly present appearance on the street, especially in the LWB version. The Range Rover doesn't look big. He is tall. And those who indulge in the “fullest” of the “full huts” will receive a V8 compressor, which in the SVAutobiography version was also “inflated” again. With 550 hp, this is probably the fastest country estate a nobleman can buy.
And this range is also intended for the nobility. Because the test vehicle based on the Autobiography was once again put to the test by the specialists of the Group's own Special Vehicles troop. What is the Maybach for the Mercedes, the Range Rover is now the “SVAutobiography”. The comparability of the large range is almost no longer possible. Only the new Bentayga from Bentley can possibly still find a common basis. In contrast to the Bentayga, however, the Range Rover can look back on generations of convinced aristocrats and who know what they have in the large Range.
Welcome to the lounge
Theoretically, you can order the SVAutobiography equipment for every Range Rover. But only in the “LWB” and the fat supercharged V8 is it really fun. If so, then right. You don't plan a chimney room in a student dorm either.
In addition to the massage lounge chairs and the overwhelmingly used leather, the SVAutobiography range also gets a PS injection. 40 PS and 55 Newtonmeter plus. On paper. Once in motion, the details don't matter anymore. He sprints out of the starting block as if an attachment notice had been deposited at the castle gate. So you should be sensitive to the accelerator pedal. Otherwise you lose the maintenance too quickly in row two. And you hardly hear complaints in row one anyway. The distance between the rows of seats is too large.
It is also thanks to the automatic transmission that the desert can act so sensitively with Newton meters around the throwing V8. The eight-speed box from ZF simply always has the correct gear ratio ready and - sensibly - likes to fall into a mode in which you can be driven by the torque of the compressor V8.
Country house up to speed 250
Despite the 22 Zöller, a Range Rover is always one that you can chase through the terrain with serious intentions. But you don't do it. Not with this variant. It would be a shame about high-floor carpets and fine woods. And you don't want to miss any dirt splashes on the paint either. Pat, pat and just sit in it. Experience the comfort. And that should even be possible up to the speed of 250. We have not tried it. We also resisted the temptation to go off-road talent. No. Enjoyment with all senses was the order of the day.
The Range Rover, especially as LWB SVAutobiography, is the ideal addition to the sophisticated country estate - or, if the attachment notice at the castle gate was not a nightmare, the only serious replacement for the country estate.