Written by Keith Adams Updated: 14 August 2024

• Plenty of room for passengers
• Average storage up front
• Impressive boot space

How much space is there?

Loads. Even in standard wheelbase guise, the Range Rover is vast. Rear legroom is good if not extravagant and there’s a simply ridiculous amount of headroom. This means four passengers can travel in sumptuous comfort – and there’s ample space on the rear bench for a fifth, even if they aren’t going to be as comfortable as the outer pair.

Shoulder room in the rear is generous, with enough width for an average-sized adult in the middle seat to get comfortable. The view from the back seats is good, too, thanks to deep and wide windows. All in all, this is a great car to spend time in.

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If, for some reason, you feel claustrophobic in the standard Range Rover, you can upgrade to an even larger model. The long wheelbase version gives those in the second row an appreciable amount of extra legroom, or you can sacrifice some of the space, upgrade to a seven-seat model and fit an extra pair of adults in the rear. Comfortably.

Boot space and storage 

The Range Rover’s boot has more space than most people will know what to do with. You get 818 litres in the mild-hybrid petrol and diesel models the rear seats in space. Impressively, the plug-in hybrid models have the same amount of space, too. Most of the Range Rover’s rivals lose between 100 and 200 litres of space to their batteries.

The Range Rover’s famous split-folding tailgate is present and correct for this latest model. Unlike the original car, though, it’s electrically assisted as standard. The lower section of the tailgate doubles as a seating area when parked and there are some strategically placed cupholders in the panel to hammer that point home.

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Our only criticism of the Range Rover’s boot is that shorter people will need to climb into the space to remove luggage from its deepest recesses. However, this problem is solved by a small panel on the right-hand side of the boot that can remotely raise and lower the car’s air suspension to improve access.

It’s very theatrical and surprisingly helpful – even if you’re lanky. Our tallest tester found it useful when loading heavy items into the boot, as he could bring the Range Rover up to the level of his hands, meaning he didn’t need to bend down as far to set the items down.

Is it easy to park?

Almost unbelievably so. Yes, the Range Rover is a massive car at more than five metres long and 2.2 metres wide. But it has a commanding driving position and huge windows, which means visibility is great out of the front.

Rear visibility is more of an issue. The back screen is rather small, and the rear pillars are thicker than Nelson’s Column. But the Range Rover has an arsenal of parking sensors and more cameras than Pinewood Studios, so you only have yourself to blame if you reverse it into a bollard.

You can even have a digital rear-view mirror that relays a feed from a camera mounted on the roof, allowing you to see what’s behind you even when you have passengers in the rear. But you don’t even need to park the Range Rover yourself if you don’t want to. Land Rover offers a self-parking system that will automatically scan for a space and dock the car in it with minimal input from the driver. We’ve tried it – and it works great.

The Range Rover is also surprisingly nimble thanks to its rear-wheel steering system. At low speeds, the rear wheels turn in the opposite direction to the fronts (like the rear axle on a forklift), which shortens the car’s turning circle and allows it squeeze into gaps you’d ordinarily not consider.

Safety

• Five-star Euro NCAP rating
• Stacks of safety equipment
• Assisted driving tech works well

Euro NCAP last tested the Range Rover in 2022 – and it awarded the car a full five-star rating. A big part of why the car performed so well was its high level of standard safety technology, which includes Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), blind-spot monitoring, active lane-keeping assist and traffic sign recognition.

Understandably (considering it’s a two-and-a-half-tonne tank), the Range Rover performed well in all its crash tests, too. The experts at Euro NCAP were particularly impressed with its ability to protect its child occupants. Both the six-year-old and 10-year-old dummies emerged from their wreckages completely unscathed.

The Range Rover’s safety equipment seems particularly well-calibrated. The lane-keeping aids, when enabled, rarely irritate and the adaptive cruise control isn’t so skittish that you have to change lanes long before you want to overtake somebody on the motorway. It makes the driving experience even more relaxing.

Matrix LED headlights come fitted as standard and respond well to oncoming traffic, dimming sections in a slick manner to avoid dazzling other motorists. Adaptive cruise control and speed limiter also come as standard.

Watch the Range Rover Euro NCAP crash test video