Range Rover: exclusive new pictures

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Photos of the new Range Rover on and off-road during its Autocar road test. This weeks Autocar magazine stars the full ten-page road test of the new Range Rover.
Throughout the course of the gruelling test, our team drove the car more than a thousand miles, both on and off road in the UK, giving our photographer, Jed Leicester, the opportunity to take more photos than we had space to print. Here, then, are some of the best of the extras.
The test also gave Autocar the opportunity to produce a full set of independent test figures for the car, which threw up a few surprises, not least of which was how a 2. 6 tonne (some 265kg more than Land Rovers claims), diesel powered SUV can crack the 0-60mph sprint in 7. 0 seconds, a figure that would have been improbable in a hot hatch a decade ago.
Just as improbable is the fact that this fully capable 4x4 is now a rival for true luxury cars such as the Bentley Continental GT and the new Maserati Quattroporte. Its sumptuous, lavishly appointed interior is worlds away from the Range Rovers mud-plugging origins and goes a long way to justifying the cars huge price hike – the entry level model (poverty-spec, if you like) costs an eye-widening 71,295.