This Is The Most Expensive Range Rover Ever Built! | 4K
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0:00 Is a Range Rover a little bit too common for you?
0:02 Do you want something that says I'm extremely rich?
0:06 Quite posh, but don't take the mickey too much because
0:08 I've got a couple of trench guns in the boot.
0:11 Well, I think I have the answer.
0:13 It's a Range Rover, but this is the Holland and Holland edition by Overfinch.
0:20 Coming up, posh guns, and these are absolutely beautiful.
0:26 Embossed game birds, both grouse and pheasant.
0:30 Some sigils from the tomb of an elder god, and boozefilled shotgun cartridges.
0:39 Okay, so that sounds a little bit like
0:42 a collaboration wrapped up in a branding exercise,
0:44 but this could quite possibly be
0:46 the most expensive Range Rover currently in production.
0:49 And that's because it starts at double a Range Rover
0:54 SV long wheelbase autobiography's recommended price of a roughly 225,000.
1:00 It's not about the driving either cuz this car
1:03 is largely standard as far as the mechanicals go,
1:05 which is very suave, but not that much different to normal.
1:09 Thing is, in the right spec, this is very easily a 550 grand Range Rover.
1:15 Can it possibly be worth the money?
1:17 I suggest we take a closer look to find out.
1:22 And £550,000 is just the start.
1:25 In a moment, we'll show you how you can add a few digits to that price,
1:28 including with an option that's so expensive,
1:31 it traveled separately to the studio.
1:34 So, first up, this starts life as a long
1:36 wheelbase SV autobiography with the P615 V8.
1:40 So, that's 615 brake horsepower and a mild hybrid system.
1:45 Overfinch then does Overfinch things
1:47 to the outside except more discreetly than usual.
1:50 Now Overfinch has been modifying Land Rover products
1:53 since the mid70s except it calls it enhancing.
1:57 And you can get it little but expensive mods
1:59 for Range Rovers and Defenders old and new engine upgrades,
2:02 exhaust, interior rettrims, and some very tasty wheel options.
2:06 But if you go for the full program,
2:08 you get a car that's apparently been redefined,
2:10 which means a carbon fiber body kit,
2:12 engine tweaks, and more diamond quilting for the leather
2:15 than you can shake a bespoke artisan stick at.
2:18 You can tell the full conversion cars are
2:20 expensive because they don't tell you the prices.
2:22 But these 24-in Vortex wheels for the full fat
2:25 Range Rover are just under 20 grand on their own,
2:28 and the exhaust is nearly nine.
2:30 So, you can imagine the rest.
2:31 But the Holland and Holland edition is slightly more subtle.
2:35 Overfinch bonnet badge in gold.
2:37 A different grill.
2:39 Holland and Holland crest and checkering.
2:42 Very deep British racing green paint.
2:45 Bespoke 23in wheels with gimbal center caps.
2:50 More gold, more checkering, more scroll work,
2:53 more Holland and Holland, just in case you forgot.
2:57 And then at the rear,
2:58 we have a full width light bar with the overfinch blade and some more gold.
3:04 But I actually think it's quite subtle.
3:07 So actually it's a very nice stylish edit of a Range Rover.
3:11 But that's not actually the best bit because this is the best bit.
3:17 Holland and Holland are gun makers that make shotguns and rifles,
3:21 but there's nothing basic about them.
3:23 And they've been at it since 1835, which is before Darwin arrived in Australia.
3:29 And their guns are more heirlooms than ordinance.
3:31 insanely pretty chunks of handcrafted lethality.
3:35 This car is inspired by Holland and Holland's Royal sidebyside shotgun,
3:39 so it's got the similar engraved scroll work and insane woodworking.
3:42 It's fairly over the top and yet utterly brilliant.
3:46 It's the ultimate posh rangy.
3:49 But it's in the boot where things get really interesting because in the rear
3:54 is a set of piggybacked companion chests made by Holland and Holland.
3:59 So, what do you actually get?
4:00 Well, apart from a lack of usable luggage space,
4:03 you get these two chests that sit on top of one another,
4:07 complete with full quilting, leather, and open pore walnut,
4:11 which store various bits and bobs.
4:13 So, if I open this, you'll notice
4:15 that there are two rather lovely bottles of champagne,
4:18 which is good for a picnic.
4:20 And then on this side, eight champagne flutes monogrammed and engraved
4:25 with the Holland and Holland crest, which is rather lovely.
4:27 Then you also get a Stagghorn corkcrew, something I really quite like.
4:32 And it's quite themic because there are champagne
4:34 corks with little silver grouse on the top.
4:37 Two of those.
4:38 And then something that's a bit old school and smoking is bad kids.
4:42 But in here is a cigar case with a cigar cutter.
4:46 Not sure what that's for, but you know, it's all very nice.
4:49 And then if I push this back and then open this lower drawer,
4:53 we have cutlery plates and monogrammed Holland
4:56 Holland napkins obviously for eight people again.
4:59 So you can have a posh picnic.
5:00 And then the piesta resistance.
5:03 If I open this bit, you get again a walnut
5:06 table on which you can put whatever you want.
5:09 You get eight cut glass little tumblers
5:12 with the Holland and Holland crest in some gin and slow gin and these shotgun
5:16 cartridges which look like goose gun cartridges.
5:19 But if you open the tops, they are actually little hip flasks.
5:25 So you can get loaded in all sorts of different
5:28 ways as long as Jeeves is in attendance, obviously.
5:31 More napkins, more luxury.
5:33 A little walnut table to do whatever you need.
5:37 But if I open this and pop that up there,
5:41 you see exactly what this car is all about.
5:44 Now, this is a matched pair of Holland and Holland the Royal shotguns.
5:49 You can see the little engraving here.
5:51 And these are absolutely beautiful.
5:54 This is all walnut.
5:56 You can see all the cross-hatching on the stock here and all the engraving.
5:59 It's really tiny and handmade and beautiful.
6:03 And they will set you back as a pair of twins between £360 and £370,000.
6:10 And yeah, you did hear that, right?
6:13 But let's just recap how much the lack of boot space will set you back.
6:16 Those guns were £360 to £370,000.
6:20 And yes, a man bought them specially to the studio
6:22 and watched me intently while I was anywhere near them.
6:25 But the companion cases are also extra at around 50 to 60,000.
6:29 So that's 400 grand to make your boot not very practical.
6:32 But the boot isn't the whole story.
6:34 There's more to see in the cabin proper.
6:36 And just to be clear,
6:38 Overfinch and Holland and Holland have history when it comes to putting
6:41 posh cases full of booze and guns into the boot of Range Rovers.
6:45 I remember driving the previous version of this collaboration back in 2009ish.
6:50 Same idea, just older.
6:54 I'm going to start in the back because if you've bought one of these things,
6:56 this is probably where you want to end up.
6:58 And the first thing you notice is there is a lot of leather.
7:02 And you can have it in three different colorways as standard.
7:04 So you can have it full London tan, you can have full Harris green,
7:08 or you can have it like this, which is a split.
7:10 So it's more green in the front and slightly more tan in the rear.
7:14 And it does have all the usual stuff that a really top-end car,
7:18 especially a limousine, might have.
7:20 So you've got um a lovely little touchcreen here, which if I just open it like
7:25 that, you can pop up the electrically operated table,
7:30 which is for whatever you do in the back of a limousine.
7:33 Then you can pop up the cup holders electrically,
7:37 which is possibly one of the most pointless things I've ever seen in a car.
7:41 Um, then there is a fridge here just
7:43 behind this checkered Holland and Holland inscribed little marketetry.
7:49 So if you press that, you can reveal oh storage for some wine,
7:55 champagne, and a couple of flutes.
7:57 Close that up.
7:58 Then there's obviously little comfort cushions,
8:03 but the rest of the car really is inspired by the gun smithery.
8:08 So this is the fore end of the Royal shotgun.
8:12 And if you check out, it's got this checker wood sort of carving grip here.
8:16 And then on the back, it's got these little lozen shaped engraved parts.
8:21 And if you look on the doors,
8:22 these actually have them embedded in the door cards.
8:27 Now, the head of engraving and the master engravers
8:29 at Holland and Holland actually engraved these themselves and then
8:33 they've scaled and reshaped these door card engrave pieces specifically
8:38 to fit in this vehicle so it all matches up.
8:40 It's not just kind of cut and paste.
8:42 The attention to detail is absolutely bonkers.
8:45 So, even on the door handles, you've got the checkering and the engraving
8:50 on the wood to make it feel super tactile.
8:52 Everything you touch, everything you feel is just just so.
8:57 It's perfect.
8:58 It smells good.
8:59 It feels good, and it's all perfectly lined up.
9:02 It feels like a very high quality product.
9:06 But if you do find yourself in the driver's seat,
9:08 you won't feel short changed because it's more of the same.
9:12 Up here, we have swaves and swaves of quilted green leather complete
9:16 with the same game birds embroidered into the back of the chairs.
9:19 You've got lots of open paw walnut again with some gold accents.
9:24 Even the gear stick and the steering wheel have little Holland
9:28 and Holland logos embossed into the sides and the same marketry,
9:31 the kind of checker pattern on the open pore walnut gear knob.
9:36 Even the adjusters for the armrests are milled from solid
9:40 brass and they feature engravings lifted from the shotguns.
9:44 Then there's the door cards with the same engraving and even
9:46 the door pulls have got all the same stuff on.
9:49 It does feel very very posh.
9:53 So I guess the big question is is the Holland
9:56 and Holland edition by Overfinch Range Rover really worth the cash?
10:00 Well, I happen to think that things are
10:02 only really worth what people are prepared to pay.
10:04 But given the wow factor when you open those doors
10:07 and the fact that only 25 of these things will ever be built,
10:11 I have to say, yeah, it probably is worth the money.
10:15 But if you didn't have very expensive guns,
10:18 what would you use the companion chest for?
10:20 Let me know in the comments.