Photos: 2010 Range Rover
![Land Rover's 2010 Range Rover feels less like a truck and more like a four-stack ocean liner -- all gliding, frictionless serenity and near-silence, betraying no trace of the furious coal-shoveling going on below decks.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ac638b8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/500x340+0+0/resize/500x340!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3b%2F64%2Fb817e3577a9b3cc7c232263aa38e%2Frange-rover-side-view-500.jpg)
Land Rover’s 2010 Range Rover feels less like a truck and more like a four-stack ocean liner -- all gliding, frictionless serenity and near-silence, betraying no trace of the furious coal-shoveling going on below decks. (Dan Neil / Los Angeles Times)
![2010 Land Rover Range Rover](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6d3ab22/2147483647/strip/true/crop/500x340+0+0/resize/500x340!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F69%2F4b%2F2fa98b24b4e89ac6c56d7b3bdfe0%2Frange-rover-int-500.jpg)
It has an upgraded switchgear (with “noble”-finish aluminum), leather headliner, a very nifty thin-film transistor (TFT) instrument display, adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring and a host of other switches, systems and continued-on-the-next-page devices. (Dan Neil / Los Angeles Times)
![2010 Land Rover Range Rover](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4db6ee3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/500x340+0+0/resize/500x340!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F99%2Fe4%2F9acd6e02c985e47258e92db12f2c%2Frange-rover-headlamp-500.jpg)
Though we don’t typically tar Land Rover with the same brush, its vehicles get roughly the same gas mileage as the Hummer, the bad boy of fuel efficiency. (Dan Neil / Los Angeles Times)