MotorMouths

The Range Rover HSE represents a brilliant combination of utilitarian pragmatism and opulent luxury. The combination of modern technology with tireless capability represents Land Rover doing what it does best.

The 2013 Range Rover is equally at home inching along the Continental Divide as it is inching along Santa Monica Boulevard. It is so quiet, so refined, so comfortable, and so luxurious, it could take the place of both an SUV and a luxury sedan in one’s garage.

The 2012 Range Rover is luxurious, powerful, smooth, classy and extremely safe, with offroad capability that’s off the chart and handling that’s downright nimble for a 5700-pound truck.

Maybe you don’t buy into the whole luxury-off-roader thing. But you have to acknowledge the feat of engineering that gives a car such a colossal span of ability. For that alone, this new Range Rover contends for that endlessly debated “world’s best” title.

Like most Range Rovers before it, this one is as much about prestige as capability and comfort. Land Rover was smart to keep the look and the luxury. The fact that it’s more efficient, too, will most likely come as a nice surprise.

You can put the Land Rover Range Rover up against BMW’s X5, Porsche’s Cayenne, Cadillac’s Escalade, Mercedes’ GL and Lincoln’s Navigator, and come away convinced the Rover is best in class when it comes to appearance, finish and fit.

The 2011 Land Rover Range Rover has its act together. It feels sturdy on the road and it’s easy to drive and responsive. The exterior is iconic and the interior dazzles.

The 2012 Land Rover Range Rover packs top-shelf refinement and utmost capability — and justifies its stratospheric price.

It’s the best Range Rover ever: a refined, reasonably economical and very luxurious 4×4, which can pull a trailer across the prairie in the morning, climb up to a snowy Colorado retreat in the afternoon and drive you to the theatre in the evening.

This latest incarnation of the Range Rover Supercharged has evolved nicely without losing sight of where it comes from. It has loads of cargo room, is by no means tardy, and comes packing an English manor full of enviable off-road lineage and character as standard-fit.

Unlike its rugged, wilderness-taming predecessors, the 2013 Land Rover Range Rover Sport is more focused on urban sophistication and all-out luxury. For the weekend outdoorsman who still pines for British opulence, it is the rare beast that can tackle it all.

The 2011 Land Rover Range Rover continues a tradition of interior opulence and off-road capability. Despite its considerable heritage, the big SUV’s questionable reliability should give buyers cause to reconsider.