2017 Range Rover vs 2018

What's the difference?

Inside the glove box of every Land Rover is a driver's manual, just like in any other car. Chances are you'll only ever read it in a blind panic trying to work out how to open the fuel cap. But flip it over and on the back cover you’ll see an icon with these words under it: By Appointment To HM The Queen Manufacturer of Motor Vehicles. That is what is special about this manual and this brand compared to others. Land Rover is the choice of transport by royalty… and celebrities and the Range Rover is the flagship.

So Range Rover is pretty special then, too and the Autobiography grade which sits high in the line-up is also special. But when Land Rover takes the Autobiography and gives it to its Special Vehicle Operations high performance division the result is officially special – the SV Autobiography Dynamic. 

The SVAutobiography Dynamic is the most powerful Range Rover ever made and we took it through 500km of testing and threw the family at it as well.

So just how special is it? And how much more will you pay for the privilege? And what's the one thing that's so slow SVAutobiography Dynamic?

Oh and we know… the Queen's royal warrant is also on Heinz soup cans, Cadbury chocolate, Samsung and Bacardi rum.

Range Rover. Straight away, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Despite a growing model line-up that now includes the Evoque, Velar and the Range Rover Sport, just about everyone on Earth pictures the brand's big bruiser whenever they hear the name.

A true motoring icon, it might have started life as a posh farmer's tool, but it is now a fixture on suburban driveways everywhere. Big and bold, it's now far more stylish than the utilitarian original, yet still manages to be super-impressive off-road. I know this because I once drove one up a river. Not across, but up. Against the current, in water almost a metre deep.

For 2018, the Range Rover's interior has scored an upgrade and, as ever, a minor tweak in the specifications. But it's still a car that has few genuine rivals.