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How much is my Range Rover worth in 2026?

There is no honest single answer, but there is an honest method. Here is what actually moves the number on a Range Rover, in the order it moves it.

· 7 min read

We are not going to print a price table, and it is worth explaining why before you decide whether to keep reading.

Any figure we published today would be wrong by the time you read it, and the spread on Range Rovers is wide enough that a single number would mislead more than it helped. Two cars of the same year and mileage can sit thousands apart on specification and history alone. A table that ignores that is not information, it is decoration.

What we can give you is the method. Below is what actually moves the number on a Range Rover, roughly in order of how much it moves it, based on how these cars are priced when someone is buying them for real money rather than generating a web page.

1. Which car you actually have

This sounds obvious and it is where most online valuations already go wrong.

The full-size Range Rover ran as the L405 from 2012 to 2021, and as the L460 from 2022 onwards. The Range Rover Sport is a different car on a different cycle: the L494 from 2013, replaced by the L461 in 2022. These are not trim variations. They are different vehicles with different demand, and the generation boundary is the single largest step in value you will cross.

Then the engine. A diesel, a petrol, a plug-in hybrid and a supercharged V8 are four different propositions to four different buyers, and they do not track each other. If you have been given a valuation that did not ask which engine you have, it was not a valuation.

2. Age, and the five-year line

Age matters for the ordinary reason that everything does. But on certain cars it also matters for a reason most sellers never hear about, because it happens after the sale.

Young, high-specification, right-hand-drive premium SUVs are wanted by the exporters we work with, supplying a market where cars like yours are the local standard rather than an oddity. That demand is real and it is steady, and it means a car heading that way is priced against that market rather than the UK one.

The practical effect is a line at roughly five years old. Under it, your car has a route that a general UK buyer cannot price against. Over it, the economics of moving it stop working and you are back to the domestic trade. We have written up the full reasoning behind that, including why we only claim it for one market.

This is worth knowing even if you never speak to us, because it tells you something useful: if your Range Rover is four and a half years old and you have been thinking about selling it next spring, the calendar is doing something to your car that has nothing to do with mileage.

3. Specification

On most cars, specification is a modest adjustment. On a Range Rover it is one of the largest single variables you control, because these were ordered from a long and expensive options list and the market still remembers which boxes cost real money.

The things that move it are the ones that were genuinely expensive when new. Not the colour of the stitching. Think along the lines of the audio system, the seat configuration and function, the roof, towing equipment, and the driver assistance packages.

Most sellers underdescribe their own car. They give a model and a year, and leave out four thousand pounds of options because they have stopped noticing them. If you do nothing else before getting a valuation, go and look at the original order or the window sticker.

4. Condition and history

History is worth more on these than on almost anything else, and the reason is specific rather than sentimental: on a Range Rover, gaps in the record are where expensive questions hide.

A complete service record, main dealer or a known specialist, does two jobs. It evidences that the work was done, and it evidences the kind of ownership the car had. A car with a thick file and a cautious owner is a materially safer car to take on than one with two stamps and an explanation.

Air suspension deserves a mention of its own, because it is the thing owners most often stay quiet about. Do not. It is routine on these cars, any competent buyer expects to see it, and it is far better priced into an offer at the start than raised on your driveway at the end. A buyer who reduces an offer at collection over air suspension was always going to reduce it over something.

5. Mileage, which matters less than you expect

Mileage is where most owners begin, and it belongs further down the list than instinct suggests.

A well-kept, well-documented, high-mileage Range Rover with a sensible specification is a straightforward car to sell. A low-mileage one with no history and a nervous owner is not. Mileage is a rough proxy for wear, and when you have better information than a proxy — a full record, evidence of how it was used, a car that presents properly — the proxy stops doing much work.

This cuts in your favour more often than not. Owners routinely assume a six-figure odometer has ended the conversation. It has not.

6. The security question, if your car is from 2018 to 2022

If your Range Rover or Range Rover Sport is from those years, there is a question that a general buyer may not think to ask you, and it is worth understanding because it affects what your car is worth and to whom.

Keyless relay theft made these cars a target in the UK, and insurers priced that risk hard. Some owners were quoted as much as £20,000, and others could not get cover at any price. DVLA figures put more than 5,500 Range Rovers stolen across the UK in 2023. Jaguar Land Rover responded with a security programme of around £15m, retrofitting more than 65,000 vehicles, and reported that thefts of 2018 to 2022 Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models fell by more than 40% as a result. It also launched its own insurance product for owners who had been priced out.

Two things follow from that. First, whether your specific car has had the security update applied is a genuine value question, and you should know the answer before anyone makes you an offer. Second, the discount the UK market applied to these cars is a UK phenomenon. It reflects British insurance premiums and British theft statistics, and it does not travel with the car when the car leaves.

We have set out the full sequence of what happened to these values, with the figures, including what changed afterwards — because the story is usually retold without the second half.

What moves it less than owners expect

Some things sellers worry about are worth less than the worrying:

  • A dent or a kerbed wheel. Priced in, rarely decisive.
  • A private plate. It comes off. It is not part of the car's value.
  • A full tank of fuel or a fresh valet. Neither changes what a trade buyer pays. Save the money.
  • A recently fitted set of tyres. Welcome, and worth mentioning, but it does not move a car into a different bracket.
  • A single missing service stamp in an otherwise complete record. Explain it and move on.

The pattern is that presentation matters far less to a professional buyer than provenance does. The things that genuinely change the number are the ones you cannot alter this afternoon.

So how do you actually find out

Three routes, honestly described.

Look at what similar cars are advertised for, and remember that asking prices are not selling prices, and that a retail forecourt price includes preparation, warranty and overheads you are not providing. It is a useful ceiling, not an estimate.

Get more than one offer. Any buyer worth dealing with expects this and will not be offended.

And when you do, ask each one the same question: is that number the number you will actually pay when you see the car? The answer separates buyers faster than the figure itself does. Our own offers stand for seven days and do not change on collection, which is a commitment rather than a valuation method, but it is the part that determines what actually lands in your account.


If you want a real number for your specific car rather than a range for a category, we will give you one within two hours, from a person who trades these. It is free, there is no obligation, and if you decide to keep the car we will not chase you.

Tell us your registration, or read what we look for on a full-size Range Rover before you do.

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When you are ready, we will give you a number.

One registration, 2 hours, one firm number. No obligation to accept it.