![]() Remembering to press the button at the back of the lever before selecting a gear can be awkward if you’re trying to do things in a hurry, while the back-and-forth movement is so sensitive, it’s difficult to find neutral – essential when selecting low-range if you’re going off-road. The gear selector is lovely to touch, but not the best solution. Thankfully Land Rover has also resisted the temptation to locate every control on the screen there are separate heating and ventilation controls, as there are for the driver control features. ![]() Oh yes, those slim, vertical rear lights – simple LED designs that house everything needed at the back. It’s not, a measure of restraint that sums up the design – less is most definitely more. Then there’s the back, with the usual bustle below the rear window and split tailgate – the lower portion is smaller than before, no doubt in response to existing owners saying they’d like to see it easier to reach far flung corners of an enormous boot.īut the light treatment – ‘hidden until lit’ – looks like a thin black line that surrounds the boot and incorporates the Range Rover name at the top, proudly sitting in what looks like an increasingly common light bar. There are fewer creases on the doors, the side vents are more subtle and feature a body-coloured panel within them, there are flush door handles, the headlights are slimmer and a tech story in themselves, and the front is cleaner with just horizontal lines below the bumper. Oh, how Land Rover’s engineers must have rolled their eyes at the design team when all that was suggested, but oh how those very same engineers have come up with incredible solutions to make those far-fetched sketches become reality. There are fewer welds around the roof, for example, leading to a cleaner look above the totally flush-fitting side glazing. The beauty of the new car is in the detail – and the detail is all about simplicity. But stand the new car against the old model and the one just going off sale – itself still highly rated – suddenly looks old and a bit fussy. Look at the new Range Rover, from the front at least, and you’d be forgiven for thinking this is a design evolution. And this is our first opportunity to get behind the wheel of the new car to give our first verdict. This new model is tasked with reinventing the genre yet again, with luxury, technology and design to the fore. The original Range Rover was conceived as the ultimate lifestyle SUV luxury came later. To put that into context, in roughly the same period of time, there have been 11 versions of the Honda Civic, while plenty of other legendary models – including many other 4x4s – have been and gone. ![]() In over 50 years of the Range Rover, this new model is just the fifth iteration of the iconic 4x4. 3.0-litre six-cylinder diesel mild hybrid
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