{"id":26509,"date":"2022-05-11T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/?p=26509"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:36:13","slug":"open-road-the-new-range-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/2022\/05\/11\/open-road-the-new-range-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Road: The New Range Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There\u2019s a reason why Land Rover shifted 95,385 cars in Q1 2021alone: the product line-up is good. The entry-level Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport are versatile compactSUVs, while a fully-fledged Discovery or thenostalgia-driven Defender are more than capableof tackling anything that comes their way. A Range Rover Sport and the swoopy Velar are for a younger audience seeking statement-making dynamism and looks, respectively, and then there\u2019s Land Rover Range Rover\u2019s halo model:the Range Rover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Range Rover Series 1 launched in 1970 it was tagged with the slogan \u201cA Car For All Reasons.\u201d Over the last five decades, statements such as \u201cAbove and Beyond,\u201d \u201cThe Power to Take You Anywhere\u201d and \u201cThe Go-Anywhere Vehicle\u201d have all been attributed to Land Rover Range Rover\u2019s fastidiousoff-road testing regime on Eastnor Castle\u2019s groundsin the British countryside, resulting in each Range Rover being just as good off the road as they are on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But BEAST wasn\u2019t in the Range Rover\u2019s proverbial hometown of middle England when it got its hands on not one, but two variants of the all-new 2022 Range Rover. Instead, we joined the press-exclusive first drive experience in Napa Valley, California\u2019s wine region dominated by vineyards and littered with stretches of road as wide as they are long \u2013 even those that wound around the northern hillside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driving the Range Rover \u201cFirst Edition\u201d and the Range Rover SV Long-Wheel-Base (complete with the $20,000 USD First Class Suite seating in the rear) around Napa Valley felt nothing but right. It fits in with the affluent wine connoisseurs and ex-Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, mostly thanks to its dominating size, subtle growl from the 4.4-liter Bi-Turbo V8 sourced from BMW, and the bronze details that bejeweled the car\u2019s exterior. It\u2019s about the excess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, much to our surprise, it was when you took the Range Rover away from its posing grounds and into more challenging territory that it came to life. Seldom does one see a 2.5-tonne car weave through mountainous roads with such ease, let alone as it carries two people (or up to five people if you choose the seven-seater) in the rear who are in fully-reclined lounge seats exercising their built-in masseuse. The Range Rover is built and designed to be the last word in opulence as it whisks clients between towns via motorway stretches, and it\u2019ll do that with its eyes closed. Overall, driving the fifth generation Range Rover in the North Californian hills showcased the lengths JLR\u2019s team has gone to this time around to perfect its institutional SUV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to perfect something already perfect, but as many of the lifestyle journalists agreed, the Range Rover is one of those cars that, once released, immediately makes the predecessor feel outdated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The engineering and design team focused on one word when making the new Range Rover: \u201crefinement.\u201d It\u2019s a plush environment no matter where you sit in the car. Drivers are treated to the biggest screen ever fitted to a Range Rover product (a snip over 13 inches), controlling much of the car\u2019s necessary elements, while a handsome steering wheel with digital dials peeking out behind it offers plenty of room to see ahead \u2013 necessary in a car this big. With the massage function on it\u2019s not far from a first-class flight as you waft along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is only heightened when you step into the rear of the car, especially when it\u2019s fitted with the $20,000 USD suite. Here, seats recline almost entirely as you choose from over a dozen massage features and seating arrangements, lounging in style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s impressive about all of this is that the Range Rover manages to serve its occupants this level of luxury in three modes: relaxed driving, all-systems-go motion, or off-roading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s exactly what the Range Rover should do \u2013 everything. From BEAST\u2019s test drive it was clear to see how the marque continues to reset the benchmark for an all-encompassing, do-anything luxury car (although it\u2019s unlikely any owners will ever take their $200,000 USD 4\u00d74 off-roading).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was specifically interesting to us was Range Rover\u2019s promise of a more engaging driving experience. Naturally, we stuck the car immediately in its sportiest mode to test out its V8 engine to the fullest potential. Now with the engine, suspension, handling and braking ramped up to their harshest settings, it was surprising to experience how \u2013 even in this form \u2013 the Range Rover maintained grace. A pleasant engine growl heightened the experience while rear-wheel steering allowed for tighter high-speed turn-ins, making the SUV feel much more nimble than its predecessor and that bit more driver-orientated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s quite difficult to sum up the new Range Rover without being vague. Quite simply, it\u2019s perfect. Its looks are familiar yet modernized and the ride comfort and driving capabilities are second to none. The only caveat here is that this new 2022 model is the most expensive Range Rover from the factory ever, starting at $104,500 USD and escalating to $218,300 USD before options (which sits at $265,000 USD fully-specced). But when something is as flawless, as well-rounded as this, price becomes a secondary factor. Life-long fans of the Range Rover brand will undoubtedly exchange their fourth-generation model for the new fifth iteration (as the marque has a customer return rate of around 70%), and the marque has nothing to worry about in terms of competitors. More sophisticated than a Bentley Bentayga, less ostentatious than a Rolls-Royce Cullinan, and cheaper than both while the Range Rover dominates in all areas makes for a no-brainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a reason why Land Rover shifted 95,385 cars in Q1 2021alone: the product line-up is good. The entry-level Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport are versatile compactSUVs, while a fully-fledged Discovery or thenostalgia-driven Defender are more than capableof tackling anything that comes their way. A Range Rover Sport and the swoopy Velar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[35,43],"class_list":["post-26509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car","tag-land-rover","tag-range-rover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26530,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509\/revisions\/26530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}