Land Rover Range Rover (2012-2022) review

The PHEV model will appeal to business users for its low claimed CO2 and mpg figures (and tax benefits), but anyone buying a P400e and genuinely expecting over 100mpg from it will be sorely disappointed. If you’re lucky and especially light of foot, you might get into the 30s in mixed driving. Likewise the EV range. LR claim 25, but you’ll see 15 or so. If you are indeed buying one as a company car it makes great financial sense, but for the rest of us there’s more satisfaction to be had from driving the brawny diesel – which in the real world is as economical and cheaper to buy. If not by much.

You can get a £95,890 Vogue SE (basically all the kit you want and less of the superfluous stuff) on a three year lease for £1,200 a month with £15,000 down. Switch that to a D350 diesel and although it’s broadly the same money to buy (£96,345), the monthly repayments are £150 more through Range Rover’s finance. That’s due to residuals at the end of the loan period. Diesels won’t be worth as much as hybrids on the used market. The writing is on the wall.