DRIVING

The Clarkson review: my new Range Rover P530 Autobiography is so hard to steal, I couldn’t get into it

‘In 2022 more than 5000 people in the UK woke up to find their Range Rover was in Albania’

The Sunday Times

For some time the dashboard of Lisa’s Range Rover has been lit up like a broken fruit machine. So I started to think about replacing it with something else. Eventually I settled on a new Land Rover Defender with a smallish diesel engine, but then Chris Packham said something annoying on television, so I decided to annoy him back by cancelling the Defender and going instead for a new Range Rover with a petrol-fed, 523 brake horsepower V8.

The leviathan arrived this morning and it’s comforting to know that by talking about the environment Packham has actually made it a little worse. Plus, I ended up with a Range Rover. Which, if I’m honest, is what I’d wanted all along.

I know the Defender is