There’s no skirting around the subject; the Range Rover is an enormously expensive car to buy. That said, the arrival of several big-ticket rivals like the Mercedes-Benz GLS, Audi Q8 and BMW X7 in recent years, all of which will set you back just as much if not more, has made the Range Rover’s price seem less exorbitant than it used to be.

What’s more, versus any of these rivals, the Range Rover looks like it will retain a much bigger chunk of its value come resale time. That’ll more than mitigate its rather high fuel costs, as will reasonable servicing and repair bills. In fact, so strong are the Range Rover’s residual values, that unless you do a high annual mileage, it looks like it’s actually one of the least costly of these big, luxurious SUVs to own, when all is said and done.