Range Rover: Take a Ride in the Fifth Generation
We’ve just landed at the airport in Sonoma County, in the heart of Northern California’s wine country, playing out a scene that has happened here — and at private terminals across the globe — thousands of times before. Straight off a private jet, we stride across the tarmac into a waiting Range Rover. The destination is the Montage Healdsburg, an exclusive wine-country retreat nestled in 250 acres of old oak forests.
The flagship Range Rover is the unofficial chariot of stealth wealth. It’s opulent, no doubt, but won’t turn heads. A Range Rover is at home in any scenario: in wine country, on a farm, in the city, valet parked, chauffer driven, owner driven, at the cottage, on a road trip, on a sand dune, crossing the Rocky Mountains. It goes from day to night and back again. It pairs with everything: a suit, a swimsuit, Arc’teryx, an $800 hoodie, anything.
What we’re climbing into at the Sonoma County airport is the all-new fifth-gen Range Rover. It looks similar to its predecessor, which looked similar to its predecessor, and so on, right back to the original that debuted in the 1970s.
When the company went to customers to see what they wanted from the fifth-gen model, the unanimous response was, “make it the same, but better.” And so that’s what the British brand did: the new model is now available in four, five, or seven seat configurations, with either a straight-six, or a new BMW-sourced V8, or — soon — pure battery power.
As for its performance, we can confirm the new model is now more composed in corners and floats down the road better. The new screens and in-car tech are vastly superior, while the cabin is more spacious and the dashboard design is cleaner looking.
Frankly, however, those details don’t really matter. The fact this is the new Range Rover means it will find space in the garages of SHARP owners the world over. It’s a Range Rover. Of course you buy the new Range Rover.
Learn more about the fifth generation Range Rover here.
