A smug Mike Duff was glad he nominated the new Range Rover for a very icy Favourite Car of the Year ❄️
I had nominated the Range Rover as my personal highlight of 2022 long before learning that the plan was to get all of our COTY candidates together in Wales during early December’s deep freeze. But that didn’t stop me from feeling entirely smug when I reached the rendezvous on the Black Mountain road – with the Rangie’s dash reporting temperatures of minus five – to see that everybody else had brought some variant of two-seat sports car. So yes, I’m a wuss – but I was also a warm wuss.
The Range Rover is JLR’s crown jewel, but also its corporate life jacket. It isn’t the company’s best-selling car, but it is almost certainly the most profitable given that even the cheapest example is now nudging six figures, and with tens of thousands of orders waiting for delivery.
There’s a twist, too – I chose the diesel on the basis that this is definitely the best powerplant - or at least the one that suits the car best. Pay more, get more, might be the guiding principle of the car industry, but the brawnier BMW twin-turbo V8 that tops the range suffers from sometimes snatchy throttle calibration and an over-eager gearbox map.
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