The Ultimate Range Rover?


Fancy an off-roader that’ll gives you all the home comforts of a rich English lord?
Well, Range Rover rebuilders Overfinch has come up with what has been described as the most luxurious and exclusive off-roader yet, complete with champagne coolers and drawers for your favourite guns.
Only 100 will be produced each year for the global market.
The Holland & Holland Range Rover was conceived with a single intention: to create the ultimate all purpose, all season, luxury supercar for the discerning few.
Based on either the 5 litre 375 kW supercharged petrol or TDV8 versions of the new 2010 MY vehicle, the Holland & Holland Overfinch features a raft of enhancements.
Bodywork is painted in one of four unique exterior paint colours, including Holland & Holland Tintern Green. Two-tone paintwork, similar to that of a Rolls-Royce Phantom, is also available, as is black.
Overfinch’s craftsmen take 130 man hours to paint and hand-polish the car, which gives a depth of colour and quality of finish that marks it out from its mass-produced brethren from 100 metres. Orange peel, the cellulite-like effect that is visible on many cars considerably more expensive than this one, is banished by the craftsmen’s skill and hard work.
The effect is completed by Overfinch’s iconic 20 inch Tiger wheels (fitted with all season mud and snow tyres) and special cast exhaust outlets. A choice of 22 inch wheels is an option for those not intending to venture off-road, or for those who also possess a winter set.
But it is on the inside that the designers have really excelled themselves.
Eight of Europe’s finest hides, of a grade so fine it is only normally used in private jets, dyed in seven exclusive tones, are used to create a cabin of rare luxury.
Professionals from both Overfinch and Holland & Holland have worked closely with a colour and trim specialist to ensure that interiors and exteriors complement one another perfectly.
A unique trim style covers the seats, doors, upper and lower dash board, centre and rear consoles and even the cubby box lid.
Not for this car simple contrasting piping - even the contrasting colour signature stripes are cut from individual hides and trimmed to sit nearly flush with the leather surrounding them. As a result, it takes over 150 man hours just to trim the car.
If the optional aviation-style quilted leather or Alcantara headlining is selected, it takes even longer.
The 31 piece wood veneer kit blends seamlessly into the design of the rest of the car, including that of the gun cabinet and rear console. There is the choice of olive ash gloss, European burr walnut with special diamond pattern inlay, matt gunstock walnut and piano black lacquer with silver inlays.

Each vehicle one will be fitted with a special shotgun grade steel plaque, which features Holland & Holland’s trademark diamond inserts and “Royal” scroll engraving, hand-made by Holland & Holland’s craftsmen at their Harrow Road factory.
The steering wheel has been designed especially for the vehicle too, with a special ergonomic grip and steel inserts, decorated with a design to match the Holland & Holland engraving, or even that of a customer’s own shotgun.
All Holland & Holland Overfinch vehicles will be strict four-seaters as the cars feature a unique centre console, which fits between the individual rear seats.
Hand-veneered to match the rest of the car, it has an integrated refrigerator at floor level, large enough for a couple of full size bottles. It also has a storage compartment, which could contain controls for the rear entertainment, a power inverter for a laptop and a Holland & Holland game book as well as Holland & Holland crystal tumblers and champagne flutes.
In the boot is a bespoke gun cabinet, hand-crafted in veneers to match the woodwork across the rest of the interior.
Although it is itself removable for when more luggage carrying capacity is required, it is locked to the boot floor for security and safety.
It has three drawers, fitted to carry eight further matching Holland & Holland crystal tumblers and flutes, customers’ own shotguns, a cleaning kit for them as well as cartridges and the bag in which to carry them.
Additional drawers are available with alternative interiors so that, between the end of one shooting season and the beginning of the next, it can serve whatever purpose the vehicle’s owner requires, from a picnic at the polo grounds to an evening at the opera.
Contained within both the gun cabinet and the refrigerator in the centre console is room for six bottles and it is for these that the car will feature the world’s first self-replenishing cocktail cabinet.
All cars sold in Europe will arrive from the factory filled with Pol Roger champagne, The Balvenie single malt whisky, Hendrick’s single batch gin, Ivan the Terrible luxury vodka and Willow Spring Water from the UK’s Lake District.
During the first year regular refills will be dispatched to the owners of the car to make sure its passengers don’t go thirsty…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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