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Range Rover - Limousine: The King Of The SUVs

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Here's the bad news, right?

Well, not really bad news, actually, just less than extraordinary news. See the dirty little secret of the new Range Rover is that it weighs over 6,000 pounds, and although this exempts buyers from the typical luxury tax, it saddles the BMW 4.4-liter V-8 with a lot to move around (the new 7-Series, by the way, weighs 1,500 pounds less than Range Rover and gets a 325-horsepower V-8, while Land Rover gets only 282 horses from its version of that power plant).

So you can gun the Range Rover to 60 mph in a respectable nine seconds, which isn't stellar, but isn't wretched, either. More to the point, there's plenty of passing grunt (torque is a healthy 324 pound-feet and at a good low 3,600 rpm), so from about 40 mph and faster, you're confident that a quick stab of the right foot will get you there quickly.

As for the ride, we'd call it stately. It's quite firm, in fact, rather than SUV lazy--which was a big problem with earlier Range Rover iterations--with excellent steering that's never quick but still precise. You can't whip through turns of course, but understeer is predictable and laying off the gas or just steering on through will usually suffice to get you past any turn you might have entered on the quick side.

Although Land Rover expects to steal some buyers of upscale cars like the BMW 7 Series and the S Class Mercedes-Benz (we think they're right, by the way), it's not fair to think they'd do it on pavement performance alone. You can't run a vehicle this large in the same line that a BMW 7-Series can cut through a corner (at least not at the same pace), but neither is the Range Rover a plush American ute that will plow madly toward the nearest curb.

So it's a truck after all, but an exceedingly polished, capable and--we say--sexy one. It doesn't drive like a sedan because it's not, but so what? It's the latest Range Rover, a car that a lucky few can afford and one that, if you're lucky enough to have, will make you grin madly every time you climb aboard. 


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