Land Rover Range Rover (P38A)

The Land Rover Range Rover (P38A) is one of 21 Land Rover models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1994. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Land Rover Range Rover (P38A) properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Subaru Subaru Outback, the Audi AG Audi A6, the Audi AG Audi A4 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Land Rover Range Rover (P38A) reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol / 4.0 L Rover V8 engine#3.9/4.0 / Rover V8 engine / V8 / 4.6 L Rover V8 engine#4.6 / Rover V8 / Diesel engine / Diesel / 2.5 L BMW M51 Turbo-d; drive goes through 4-speed ZF automatic / 5-speed ZF manual; the layout is Longitudinal front-engine, four-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Land Rover story

Within Land Rover's own catalogue the Land Rover Range Rover (P38A) sits alongside the Land Rover Defender L663, the Land Rover Discovery Sport, the Land Rover Discovery series, the Land Rover 1/2 ton Lightweight. The record names the Range Rover "Classic" as its predecessor and the Range Rover (L322) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to George Thomson (1990). Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Solihull (Solihull plant).

On the record

For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 24 mpg combined, which works out near $5,450 a year in fuel at current prices.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Land Rover Range Rover (P38A) costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.