68231 km on the clock only.
What you will love:
- Remarkable rear seat comfort
- Supple ride
- Four-zone climate control
- Heated/ventilated front and rear seats
- 1700W Meridian Signature Surround Sound System (19 speakers), dual-view touchscreen, and rear-seat entertainment screens
- Cabin refinement and quality
- Surprising agility
- Thunderous V8 engine with decent economy
- Road presence and design
- and much more...
A vehicle that turns a trip to the shops into an experience and an occasion, is an unusual proposition. It’s one of those rare vehicles where you’ll fight your friends and colleagues for the back seat, and he who calls shotgun misses out on the party.
The Autobiography gracing our garage is the supercharged V8 version, which sits at the very top of the Range Rover tree.
Under the clamshell bonnet sits a longitudinally-mounted 5.0-litre V8 supercharged petrol V8 with 375kW of power from 6000-6500rpm and 625Nm of torque from 2500-5500rpm.
Despite weighing a heady 2413 kilograms despite its large-scale aluminium construction, the house-shaped Rangie can lap from 0-100km/h in 5.8 seconds. Quite simply, this thing absolutely hammers. The engine's response is disarmingly immediate - do so much as breathe on the throttle and you will hurtle towards the horizon.
Range Rover claims combined-cycle fuel consumption of 13.8 litres per 100 kilometres. We conducted a round trip of largely highway and backroad driving at 110km/h, mixed with about 40km of inner-city stop-start driving, averaging 12.5L/100km al up. On highways this figure regularly dropped below 10s — commendable for a car of this size with a petrol engine.
Like the rest of the family, entertainment up front is covered by an 8.0-inch touch-screen with on- and off-road navigation, a two-way screen that projects different images to driver and passenger (so the front passenger can make the most of the digital TV reception, while the driver is show a touchscreen menu), a TFT/LCD instrument cluster and 10 different interior lighting options concentrated on the door handles and stowage compartments, in the footwells, and following the lines of the centre console’s veneer surfaces.
The front captain’s chairs are soft and the headrests could not belong to anything but a Range Rover, and touches such as the heated steering wheel; leather headlining, door linings, grab handles and pillars; flip-down leather-faced folding cubby holders in the doors and felt inserts in various storage compartments help the ambience.
Rear entertainment is handled with a remote control, wireless headphones, specific USB and auxiliary inputs and a pair of 10.2-inch screens. These screens can play Blu-Ray, digital TV or USB content, or display the sat-nav feed.
SAFETY FEATURES:
- Rear vision / reversing camera
- Front parking sensors
- Front vision camera
- Rear parking sensors
- Side vision camera
- Parking assist graphical display
- Side airbags
- Driver airbag
- Rollover stability control
- Brake assist
- Passenger airbag
- Trailer sway control
- and much more...
EXCITING FEATURES
This Unique Land Rover Range Rover V8SC Autobiography Black has adaptive cruise control. This car has sports pedals, front & rear power windows, inbuilt harddisk drive, USB audio input, panoramic glass roof and cooled centre console. It has 3500kg braked and 750kg unbraked towing capacity. In addition to all the foregoing this car has voice recognition, hill descent control (HDC), rain sensor wipers, satellite navigation (GPS), remote central locking, 22" alloy wheels and electric power assisted steering.