RENDEZVOUS WITH RANGE ROVER

The opulent do-it-all vehicle from Land Rover has reached its fifth generation with the recent launch of flagship SUV Range Rover Autobiography, in India. MARWAR reviews the high-end vehicle, a great one to start for someone looking to hop onto a kingsize comfort bandwagon.

- BHUVAN CHOWDHARY

it's been a little over 50 years since Range Rover, the flagship offering from Land Rover, was introduced to the world. Each iteration since then has aimed to keep the 'Range Rover' core principles preserved while garnishing the new flagships with the latest tech and innovation.

This fifth generation SUV does exactly that Imagine someone in their prime of life during the 1970s; leaving behind an era of prosperity and growth and entering into the new decade full of hope. In this new zest for living in extravagance, the first Range Rover was introduced to the world. And while the economic growth of the ’60s didn’t quite transition smoothly into the oil crisis and global slump of the ’70s, the Range Rover thrived and was hugely appreciated for its glorious industrial design. The machine that started out as an opulent do-it-all go-anywhere vehicle, now in its fifth generation, is very different from the original yet carries all of its core values.

LUXURIOUS DESIGN

The car you see (in the pic) is the Range Rover Autobiography, which in plain English translates to the most luxurious variant of Land Rover’s flagship SUV in India that’s brimmed to the neck in tech and luxury features while adding an extra 200mm wheelbase that translates to a vast 193mm legroom. This by all means is an extra-large car that is successfully able to hide its footprint behind the new design. While the overall silhouette still retains hints of the previous generation car(s), the new car’s sleeker laser LED headlights with sharper slatted grille and rounded off rear end carries a continuous design connecting the tail lights on either side. A case of minimalism serving to keep things within proportion.