2021 Range Rover

The Most Expensive Range Rover Ever Made Will Be Exclusive to the U.S.

Range Rover is making just 17 examples of the exclusive Carmel Edition SUV at $345,000 a pop.

It looks like Range Rover has finally figured out how to be an uber-exclusive brand. The British off-road brand used Monterey Car Week to drop its most exclusive and expensive model ever: the 2022 Range Rover SV Carmel Edition.

If you have to ask you, can’t afford it. Range Rover is making just 17 of this bespoke special edition cars, and they’re exclusively for the U.S. Each one will cost $345,000. So what makes it so special?

The whole package is inspired by the beautiful nature and scenery of the California coastline in Carmel. I honestly get it. If you’ve never been to Carmel, it’s gorgeous. The exterior of the Range Rover is painted in special bronze paint called Satin Bronze. Huge 23-inch dark gray wheels with matching Satin Bronze inserts round out the exterior. Power comes from a twin-turbo 523 horsepower V8.

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It looks like Range Rover has finally figured out how to be an uber-exclusive brand. The British off-road brand used Monterey Car Week to drop its most exclusive and expensive model ever: the 2022 Range Rover SV Carmel Edition.
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Yes, this Range Rover SV Carmel Edition really does cost $345,000

Absurdly expensive limited edition is only for absurdly rich Americans

New Range Rovers have never been cheap, but this Carmel Edition might be wading into some seriously deep water in that regard.

As you might expect from a) Land Rover’s SV Bespoke division and b) a luxury car limited to just 17 examples, exclusively for the American market, it’s properly pricey. What you – and we – might not expect is that ‘properly pricey’ extends as far as $345,000. Convert from freedom francs to British bob and you’re looking at £291,795.

Still reeling, we went to the new Range Rover configurator and threw just about every option we could at a top-spec, V8-powered SV. Even so, the driveaway price still pulled up at £221,927, even after we included as many accessories as we could stomach (we will not even pretend to want Union Jack tyre valve covers) and unseemly red-painted calipers. So that leaves £70,000 for the Carmel Edition to fill in. But how?

It’s not the drivetrain, which is the same 523bhp, turbocharged V8 as the ‘regular’ V8 SV. Not the forged 23-inch wheels, either – they’re a £3,600 optional extra that we ticked on our run-through. We also plumped for the long-wheelbase version, with the ultra-luxe four-seat configuration that comes as standard in the Carmel Edition.

Those white ceramic controls are... certainly something, but they’re also available as part of a £3,000 interior pack, which we ticked. Erm... what gives?

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Yes, this Range Rover SV Carmel Edition really does cost $345,000

Absurdly expensive limited edition is only for absurdly rich Americans
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The V8 needs to be the flagship, then, the indulgent choice, and that’s why, in the UK, it’s offered in only high-spec Autobiography trim or above, making it a huge £35,000 costlier than the D350.

Range Rover customers inevitably look at these prices differently from people deciding between a 1.0-litre and a 1.5-litre Skoda Karoq, so if only the best will do, BMW’s V8 does suit the Range Rover perfectly. However, the price difference is huge – enough to buy a nicely specced example of said Skoda, and diesel buyers shouldn’t feel short-changed.

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Anyway it’s a heavier solution than pure internal combustion, which will limit its off-road capabilities, but if your use case is right, this could be the answer. For SUVs which actually tow things and are sometimes expected to run big distances in remote locations, PHEVs are a sound technology. And well-executed here.

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So what’s the verdict?

The fact three-quarters of Range Rover owners’ journeys can apparently be catered for by a sliver of electric range suggests they could easily make do with a smaller, lighter mode of transport better in keeping with the current climate rhetoric. But if they absolutely must drive something so big and plush, aren’t we all better off that it whispers past our homes and schools with zero local emissions? The fact those on board get to experience an ever calmer, smoother mode of transport seems a mere side note. The heaviest Range Rover yet also manages to justify its existence most easily. Funny old world.

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