Would you go all the way to Scotland to drive the new Range Rover? We did!
. But a quick spin in wine country pales in comparison to a six-hour tour of The Trossachs. With the exception of motorways, the Scottish test route had it all: sweeping As, roller-coaster Bs, patience-wearing single lanes - all of it tied together with an obligatory gallop back down the Glencoe stretch of the A82, a section of lonely road very high on the shortlist for Britain’s most scenic.
On the first count, you can dismiss any misgivings about that slightly awkward rear end in the real world. Granted, we drove one in a dark colour which helps no end, but even presented with lighter shades it takes no time at all for your brain to simply regard it as a Range Rover, and draw no additional conclusions whatsoever. The quintessential proportions are just too familiar, and too well struck for the model to be compromised by spindly lights.
The act of actually driving the new Range Rover does nothing to undo the spell. By rights, the D350, with its carried-over 3.0-litre straight six diesel motor, ought to seem impossibly old hat in 2022 - like riding a laggardly steam engine in the jet age. But of course it doesn’t. Instead it seems like a totally apt way to ghost a two-and-a-half tonne luxury SUV forward.
The result is absurdly sumptuous. But better than that, it is very pleasant to drive, too, in a way that it never has been before. It is likely you will notice one before the other. Truth be told, a Nissan Qashqai could make a fair fist of Scotland’s sublime A roads, so wide and smooth and sighted are they. The D350’s half-fast amble is predictably gratifying. The electric steering resistance is oily to the point of effortless, yet is wonderfully dialled into the car’s front end .
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