The new Range Rover wins design award

The new Range Rover has picked as best design by a panel of experts. Photo: Range Rover

The new Range Rover has triumphed in the Car Design News annual Car Design Review book, claiming the coveted Production Car of the Year award.

Chosen by a panel of expert jurors – including design leaders from Polestar, Lamborghini, Volvo and Lucid – the Range Rover was praised for its reductive design and the way it combines a modern luxury aesthetic with an iconic form that links the new vehicle to its unrivalled 50-year lineage.

The fifth-generation Range Rover was the clear winner among the shortlisted vehicles, all of which were launched between April 2021 and September 2022.

 Prof Gerry McGovern OBE, Chief Creative Officer, Jaguar Land Rover, said: “Range Rover is the original luxury SUV and a vehicle of peerless distinction. New Range Rover’s exceptional form embodies modern luxury, and its elegant proportions and optimised volumes are hallmarks of our Reductive Design philosophy. This approach was introduced with the Velar in 2017 and is now familiar across our Range Rover family.”

The Range Rover is clean and elegant, with seamless laser-welded roof joints, flush glazing and innovative hidden waist finishers where the door panels meet the window glass. The floating roof graphic is a key part of Range Rover DNA while its familiar split tailgate features hidden shut lines which communicate a new level of precision.

Built on the new mixed-metal flexible Modular Longitudinal Architecture (MLA) with a range of electrified powertrains and a drag coefficient of only 0.30 – the lowest of any luxury SUV – the Range Rover was hailed as “simple, bold and the most elegant luxury SUV” by judge SangYup Lee, Senior Vice President and Head of the Hyundai Global Design Centre.

New Range Rover was also praised by fellow judge Maximilian Missoni, Head of Design at Polestar, who said: “For someone who knows what a challenge maintaining purity throughout the process can be, this car and its creators have my full respect.”