Range Rover Autobiography

Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Edition

Wondering who makes the ultimate luxury sport-utility vehicle? Wonder no longer, because it's here. Called the Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Edition, it's essentially a Rolls-Royce in SUV form.

The biggest upgrade comes inside the first-class cabin, where the individual rear seats are separated by a console with integrated drinks cooler and aluminum tray tables, with iPads mounted to the front seatbacks. The cargo bay has been trimmed with a teak deck like a megayacht's, and of course the leather and wood trim is all top-choice.

Outside is a dark grille, door handles color-keyed to the body (which is available with a couple of new paint options), along with the requisite special badging and unique 20-inch alloys, and buyers can choose from either the 4.4-liter V8 turbodiesel or the 5.0-liter supercharged V8. Pricing has yet to be announced, but the Autobiography Ultimate Edition is set to be unveiled at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.

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Millionth Range Rover Donated to Charity

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Auctions, Charity

After forty years of production, Land Rover has produced their landmark millionth Range Rover, and is donating it for a charity auction in London. The milestone luxury SUV in question – a top-of-the-line Range Rover Vogue Autobiography edition in black – has a retail value in excess of £85,000.

Celebrity automotive journalist Jeremy Clarkson will take possession on the charity's behalf during the Top Gear Live show at Earls Court, after which the vehicle will be put up for auction to benefit wounded soldiers through the Help for Heroes foundation which Clarkson represents and for whom the vehicle is expected to raise in excess of £100,000.

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Luxist Drives the 2010 Range Rover, Feeling of Royalty Still Hasn't Worn Off

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Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

When the winds of model-year change blew on Land Rover's 2010 lineup, they hit the LR3 at hurricane speeds forceful enough to turn it into the LR4. A shade of velocity lost, they still rocked enough impact to reshape the Range Rover Sport into the faster and highly finessed luxo-beast we'd been pining for since we drove it in 2007.

By the time those gales rushed over the clamshell bonnet of the Range Rover they had slowed considerably, leaving a mild-by-comparison alteration of the top-tier landscape. That doesn't mean it wasn't a potent alteration, though: heightened sensations from innovations like the TFT dashboard and vastly increased motivation from the new Jaguar-derived 5.0-liter V8 helped make the total package a little bit better everywhere. And when you're already standing on the peak, every little bit counts for a lot.

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