The £177k Range Rover SVAutobiography Is Your New Favourite Luxury Land Yacht

Land Rover has revealed the poshest Rangie yet, with airline-inspired seats and a reassuringly expensive price tag
The £177k Range Rover SVAutobiography Is Your New Favourite Luxury Land Yacht

If you had an inordinate amount of money and wanted a car to be driven in rather than pilot yourself, what would you buy? The cars of Rolls-Royce or Bentley might be tempting, and there’s always the Mercedes-Maybach. If it was us though, we’d strongly consider shirking the lot and getting the poshest Range Rover possible.

Lots of suspension travel to soak up the worst bumps of our crummy UK road network, a high seating position to let you lord it over all other motorists, and off-road ability that’s well-suited for a posho countryside excursion. It’s a compelling mix of abilities, and now there’s an even plusher Rangie to do all of it.

It’s called the SVAutobiography, available exclusively in long wheelbase form. As such, it has masses of room in the back, where you’ll find airline style ‘Executive Class’ seats. These offer 120cm of legroom, a 40-degree recline, a ‘hot stone massage function’ and - our favourite bit - heated calf and foot rests. Because we just can’t stand un-heated calf and foot rests.

The £177k Range Rover SVAutobiography Is Your New Favourite Luxury Land Yacht

The rear tables in the back are deployed electrically, and feature integrated 10-inch touchscreens. There’s also 4G WiFi connectivity, a fridge, buttons to close the doors (because you wouldn’t want to do anything strenuous like closing them yourself) and a lovely clock by Zenith.

Your driver will benefit from Jaguar Land Rover’s new Touch Pro Duo infotainment system - first seen in the Velar - which uses two 10-inch touchscreens. We haven’t seen the front part of the cabin yet, though - Land Rover has only released these two images of the vehicle.

The price for this JLR Special Vehicle Operations-finished slice of luxury is predictably high. The range starts with the 334bhp, £167,850 TDV8, with the 398bhp ‘P400e’ plug-in hybrid weighing in at £168,015. Or if you can stomach the fuel bills, the 557bhp supercharged 5.0-litre V8 is yours for £177,030.

It’ll make its public debut at the LA Auto Show.

Comments

The Prius Tumor

New boss, same as the old boss.

11/28/2017 - 11:46 |
5 | 1
Anonymous

Not sure any muddy boots will find their way in here 😂

11/28/2017 - 11:50 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

They’ve gone from carting calf’s around to having heated calf rests.

11/28/2017 - 15:31 |
11 | 0
Ewan23 (The Scottish guy)

You could have so many cool cars for 177K lol.

11/28/2017 - 11:52 |
14 | 2

True, but someone who buys a £177k Range Rover will probably have more than one car ;)

11/28/2017 - 13:23 |
20 | 0

Agreed. Personally I’d rather have an S-class and have enough money left over for a nice sports car as well. Even if it has to be an SUV, I don’t see that much reason to have one of these over something like an XC90, Q7 or Cayenne once playing with the gimmicks gets boring.

11/28/2017 - 16:57 |
2 | 0
Ali Mahfooz

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11/28/2017 - 11:53 |
1 | 0

Is it not Super Veloce since the Murcielago?

11/28/2017 - 11:59 |
1 | 0

Special Vehicle

11/28/2017 - 12:03 |
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Anonymous

I think a volvo xc90 fully upgraded would be much nicer

11/28/2017 - 11:56 |
1 | 1
Williard

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

The RR is in a different league of refinement and comfort, the xc90 is great car but it’s more ‘normal’

11/28/2017 - 14:46 |
0 | 0
TheMindGarage

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Not the same as far as gimmicks go, but I think I’d prefer it. It’s more understated.

11/28/2017 - 16:58 |
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dmackster1124

I could use the leg room

11/28/2017 - 12:04 |
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TheRealBouss

Must. Not. Make. Yacht. Joke

Argh, I can’t resist…

11/28/2017 - 13:01 |
1 | 1

Funny thing is that Land Rover actually sponsor Ben Ainslie Racing (I visited their HQ recently - it’s a real carbon-fibre-fest) so they do have connections with yachts. Just not those kinds of yachts…

11/28/2017 - 16:59 |
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Tomislav Celić

IMO a land yacht is a 4 seater convertible. Not a SUV. Never. A land tancker, yes, but not a yacht

11/28/2017 - 15:36 |
2 | 2

Agreed, this is a land yacht!

11/28/2017 - 16:27 |
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DJ N

I think I’ll stick to something from Maybach. Or maybe a Brabus S65. Fine, a Merc product! It just seems to me that Range Rovers are awfully common as luxury chauffeured-cars. Just my two cents.

11/29/2017 - 06:42 |
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P1eased0nteatme

In reply to by DJ N

And Maybachs aren’t? lol

11/29/2017 - 07:49 |
1 | 0
Ethan 18

In reply to by DJ N

and a maybach isn’t?

12/13/2017 - 01:59 |
1 | 0
Soni Redx (MD Squad Leader) (Subie Squad Leader)

Yeah not xD

11/30/2017 - 22:01 |
0 | 0

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