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Five of the best luxury SUVs you can buy right now
For when you need something big, bold and really quite posh
Range Rover
This is a hugely confident car and a mighty achievement. Cleverly conceived, intelligently engineered and breathtakingly well designed, more than ever the Range Rover can legitimately claim to be not just the definitive luxury SUV, but the definitive luxury car. Move over S-Class and i7, as an imperious way of getting yourself about, the Rangey can’t be matched. In fact, more than just a car, this is one of the definitive luxury experiences of any kind.
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Advertisement - Page continues belowFerrari Purosangue
The good bit is that the Purosangue leans heavily towards Ferrari’s core proposition with an added dose of daily usability, rather than a re-cloaked SUV. It’s impressive, and certainly the most convincing ‘SUV’. Ironically, it’s probably the only one that really deserves the name.
Rolls-Royce Cullinan
Rolls-Royce’s cars are always vastly greater than the sum of their parts, and the Cullinan is part of a fascinating engineering continuum. The looks are divisive and distracting. Try to look beyond them, because underneath this car manages to behave like no other SUV, be it Bentley Bentayga or Range Rover. It’s smoother, quieter and more dignified than any other. It understands the essence of luxury is not endless screen menus and mood lighting, it’s about tactility, quality and imperviousness to what’s happening outside.
Advertisement - Page continues belowBMW iX
BMW isn't selling this as a driver's champion. If you want a traditional BMW sports saloon that happens to be electric, the i4 is your car (although don’t expect that to handle as engagingly as a 330e. And don’t expect that to drive as engagingly as an M3). The iX is a big comfy home-on-wheels, and a vast amount of technology has been poured into making sure the driver is soothed while the passengers kick back. It's efficient for a full-size e-SUV. The range is impressive, and it can recharge pretty rapidly too.
Aston Martin DBX
The DBX707 is a polarising thing: yet another brawny, bawdy V8 petrol SUV in a world increasingly turned on by efficiency. But saying that, it’s a very decent translation of Aston Martin into the cash-generating sector that is the SUV market. It was a little late to the party, but if this is Aston’s Porsche Cayenne moment that allows the company to settle and produce ever more decent GT/sports cars (and the DB12 and new Vantage suggest it does), then that’s a good thing.
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