Avg. Price Paid:$30,777 - $38,762
Original MSRP: $77,175 - $92,825
MPG: 12 City / 18 Hwy
Search Used Listings:

Land Rover Range Rover Recalls & Reliability

These scores and this review are from when the car was new.

Scorecard

Overall: 2008 Land Rover Range Rover U.S. News Best Cars 8.1
Critics' Rating: 8.7
Performance: 8.9
Interior: 8.9
Safety: N/A
Reliability:
How we calculate scores
Research analyzed for this review

Pros & Cons

  • Class-leading off-road performance
  • Luxurious, smooth, and surprisingly nimble (for its size) on-road manners
  • Gorgeous interior and exterior styling
  • Pampers with long list of features, technology, and luxury touches
  • Very high price, even for its class
  • Poor fuel economy versus peers
  • Based on past history, reliability questions remain

Research Other Years

Review Last Updated: 3/12/09

Recalls

There have been no safety recalls issued from NHTSA.

Reliability

Our reliability score is based on the J.D. Power and Associates Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) rating or, if unavailable, the J.D. Power Predicted Reliability rating.

Predicted Reliability Score
  • Key:
  • Among The Best
  • Better Than Most
  • About Average
  • The Rest

J.D. Power and Associates Power Circle Ratings do not include all information used to determine J.D. Power and Associates awards. See JDPower.com for more information on Power Circle Ratings. Your experience may vary.

All information provided by J.D. Power and Associates is proprietary information owned by J.D. Power and Associates and is protected by U.S. and international copyright law and conventions. Reproduction of this information, in whole or in part, by any means is prohibited without the express written consent of J.D. Power and Associates, other than printing copies of the J.D. Power and Associates content by site visitors for their personal use. J.D. Power and Associates® is a registered trademark of J.D. Power and Associates.

Warranty

The Rover Range Rover comes with a four-year/50,000-mile basic warranty.

In assessing reliability, Edmunds says that despite problems with reliability in the past, "[T]oday this Land Rover SUV offers just as much quality as it does prestige."  That general view was echoed by most reviewers, who agreed that the build quality of the SUV seemed high.

Next Steps: Land Rover Range Rover