Range Rover SVAutobiography revealed – costs from £148,900

The Range Rover SVAutobiography has been revealed, built by JLR’s SVO division as the most luxurious and powerful Range Rover to date. Costs from £148,900.

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This is the new Range Rover SVAutobiography, officially revealed ahead of a debut at the 2015 New York Motor Show, and it gets all the toys Land Rover could conjure.

It also gets the option of more power than any other production Range Rover thanks to a specially tuned version of the 5.0 litre S/C engine from the Range Rover Sport SVR, offering 543bhp in the SV. And it costs from £148,900, which isn’t as much as we’d expected when we first revealed the SVAutobiography last week.

But that’s because the SVAutobiography (which is a really silly name – why not Autobiography SVO?) replaces the Autobiography Black rather than being a rung above.

New exterior cosmetic tweaks for the new RR include a two-tone paint job – with the Santorini Black top half paired with a choice of nine lower body colours – quad tail pipes (for the S/C), a new grill, new lettering on the bonnet and some ‘SVO’ badges.

But as Land Rover gear up to take on Bentley’s upcoming Bentayga, it’s the interior of the SVAutobiography that comes in for most attention.

Land Rover has thrown their best leathers and materials at the SVO car, with ample room to lounge in the back, with toys like powered deployable tables, chiller compartment, aluminium coat hooks and mohair carpets to cosset, and all the toys, and more, you could want either included or on the options list.

Even the SVO car’s boot comes in for a makeover, with ‘Event Seating’ as an option for those too pretentious to sit on the RR’s tailgate – an option that will appeal only to those who’d never use them.

The Range Rover SVAutobiography will arrive in Land Rover’s UK showrooms in the summer – after its New York debut – with a choice of SWB or LWB, the aforementioned 5.0 litre S/C V8 petrol, SDV6 Hybrid or SDV8 diesel.