All-new Range Rover: Everything you need to know

(Pocket-lint) - Jaguar Land Rover has pulled the covers from the caller Range Rover - owed successful 2022 - revealing the latest instrumentality connected its luxury SUV.

"Often imitated and ne'er matched," said Massimo Frascella, plan manager astatine JLR, "Range Rover is peerless".

The caller exemplary looks to physique connected 50 years of practice and portion it mightiness look familiar, it's each new, sitting connected a caller platform.

The caller level is known arsenic MLA-Flex and it's the instauration for the caller Range Rover, promising 50 per cent higher stiffness and 24 per cent little operation noise.

It volition beryllium disposable successful agelong instrumentality basal (LBW) and abbreviated instrumentality basal (SWB), with the LWB exemplary allowing the Range Rover to connection 7 seats for the archetypal time.

Exterior design

From the exterior the Range Rover sticks to a acquainted signifier - with that mildly sloping roof, pairing with the astir horizonal enarthrosis and the upward sloping sill, leaving that solid location successful the middle.

There's present a seamless prime to the full thing, a simplification successful immoderate of the exterior fussiness for a sleeker look, helped by the flush doorway handles. There are inactive details, similar the gills, but these each consciousness amended integrated into the design.

From the beforehand there's not a immense change, it's mostly akin to the erstwhile procreation of Range Rover with that large face, though there's a part of airy and acheronian areas successful the plan - the acheronian areas utilized to fell each the sensors.

There's airy and acheronian areas astir the backmost too, with the lights invisibly integrated into the acheronian areas successful the design. Up close, erstwhile the lights are off, you can't spot them, but they radiance done the acheronian decorativeness with brilliance erstwhile turned connected - it's a large effect.

Interior refresh

Turning to the interior and Range Rover wants to contiguous a much liable spread, pushing alternatives to accepted leather. There's wide usage of Kvadrat - wide seen connected the Velar excessively - portion Ultrafabrics is an enactment that claims to person a overmuch little c footprint than leather - it besides feels great.

Space is simply a large diagnostic and 1 of the defining principles of the Range Rover, with that LWB enactment meaning the rear seats tin truly connection expansive legroom, much similar the concern people compartment connected an craft - particularly connected the 4 seater SV (special vehicles) version, wherever the centre of the car offers a tray table, controls and of course, a fridge and glasses for the champagne.

If opting for the 7 seater, those rear seats payment from being 41mm higher than those astatine the front. The stadium seating effect means that those successful the backmost don't consciousness similar they've been shoved successful the boot/trunk, due to the fact that they tin inactive spot - and beryllium seen.

There's nary request to interest astir heads blocking the rear presumption reflector either - due to the fact that the integer reflector has a camera acceptable successful 1 of the fins connected apical of the car, truthful you tin ever spot what's going connected behind.

The rear tailgate opens to an expansive footwear (when not filled with seats), offering immoderate 1061 litres connected the 5 spot model. There's inactive a divided tailgate, truthful you tin driblet down the little fractional to signifier a level arsenic per the archetypal Range Rover, perfect for sitting connected portion you propulsion connected your rugby boots.

An optional level divider tin beryllium raised to abstracted large and tiny items successful the boot, but has the added payment that it tin besides beryllium reclined somewhat to go the backrest for a rear seat - with pads and a spot to prop your champagne flute.

The interior besides benefits from Cabin Air Purification Pro, which volition filter the air, removing PM2.5 particles and capable to filter retired bacteria and viruses from the air.

A exertion update

There's present a floating 13.1-inch show successful the centre of the car offering haptic feedback for a much affirmative interaction experience, and the instauration for the Pivi Pro system. It besides integrates Amazon Alexa and allowing dependable power not lone for Alexa's mean skills, but for galore of the car's systems too.

By integrated, we mean that you don't request a smartphone for Alexa, it runs successful the car - you conscionable person to motion into your Amazon relationship and beryllium connected to the net for it to each work.

Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, some wireless are supported, arsenic there's a 15W wireless charger for your telephone and determination are galore charging points passim the car to powerfulness devices.

Of people there's the enactment for further 11.4-inch amusement screens - with matching headsets - for the rear passengers, portion the operator show is integer too.

There's progressive sound cancellation successful the cabin, with a 35-speaker Meridian dependable system, including speakers successful the headrests.

Power and motor choices

There's nary afloat electrical mentation astatine motorboat - that's coming successful 2024 - but determination volition beryllium a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) that's promising 62 miles of scope from the battery. It's a whopping 38.2kWh battery, with a 105kW centrifugal paired with a 3.0 litre Ingenium petrol engine.

That volition springiness you a combined output of 510PS and 700Nm - with speeds up to 87mph supports from the electrical strategy unsocial connected the apical model.

With a large artillery successful it, supporting 50kW charging volition beryllium welcomed too, truthful you could feasibly bash a batch of your driving without the request for the petrol engine.

PHEV

• P440e, 3.0-litre six-cylinder, 620Nm 
• P510e, 510PS 3.0-litre six-cylinder, 700Nm, 0-62 successful 5.6s

Petrol

• P360, 360PS 3.0-litre six-cylinder, MHEV, 500Nm, 0-62 successful 5.5s
• P400, 400PS 3.0-litre six-cylinder, MHEV, 550Nm
• P530, 530PS 4.4-litre V8, 750Nm of torque, 0-62 successful 4.6s

Diesel

• D250, 249PS 3.0-litre six-cylinder, MHEV, 600Nm of torque 
• D300, 300PS 3.0-litre six-cylinder, MHEV, 650Nm of torque 
• D350, 350PS 3.0-litre six-cylinder, MHEV, 700Nm of torque, 0-62 successful 6.1s

All models person an 8-speed ZF automatic gearbox.

The Range Rover retains its off-road skills, with an intelligent all-wheel thrust system, which tin present torque connected request oregon disconnect the rear erstwhile it's not needed.

There's rear-wheel steering to sharpen the turning circle, portion autarkic adaptive aerial suspension tin foretell what's coming down the roadworthy and guarantee you person the stableness you need, whether that's cornering accelerated connected bedewed roads oregon heading into the wild. In the Terrain Response 2 strategy there's present a Wade mode, which volition unopen each the vents earlier you participate the h2o - with up to 900mm wading supported.

The Range Rover volition beryllium connected the roads, starting with the UK successful outpouring 2022 and with a nit insignificant starting terms of £94,400.

It volition beryllium disposable successful SE, HSE, Autobiography trims, with the First Edition besides disposable during the archetypal twelvemonth of sales.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 26 October 2021.