Range Rover Rental in Kuala Lumpur

The Velar at RM1,200 a day, RM5,600 a week or RM12,000 a month is the value entry and the one we rent most. It is a mid-size SUV with a 2.0-litre turbo four, five seats, a clean minimalist cabin and dimensions that behave in ordinary car parks. For a month-long stay in KL where you want presence without a supercar budget, it is hard to beat.

The Sport SVR at RM2,200 is the loud one: a 5.0-litre supercharged V8 with 575 bhp and an exhaust that announces itself in a basement car park. It is booked for weddings, for entourage work where the car needs to be noticed, and by people who simply want to hear that engine for a weekend. Fuel consumption is 16 to 18 litres per 100 km and we do not pretend otherwise.

The Vogue at RM4,499 is the chauffeur car. Air suspension, executive rear seats, a whisper-quiet cabin and the twin-turbo V8. This is the one that gets booked to collect somebody from KLIA and take them to a hotel and then to meetings for three days, and it is the car most often paired with a driver, not self-driven.

Size, plainly: the Vogue is five metres long and wide with it. Older city-centre car parks — the Jalan Sultan area, some Bukit Bintang basements, several older office towers — are difficult and occasionally impossible. Newer malls, hotel valet, KLCC, Bangsar South and Mont Kiara are all fine. The Velar has none of these problems.

All three ride on air or adaptive suspension and cope well with KL's rougher surfaces and unmarked humps. Ground clearance is a non-issue on all three, which is the practical reason a Range Rover often beats a low German saloon for anyone regularly visiting older housing areas or construction sites.

Fuel across the range: Velar around 10 to 12 litres per 100 km, Sport SVR 16 to 18, Vogue 15 to 17, all on RON 97. Only the Sport SVR and Velar carry published weekly and monthly rates; ask us for a long-term figure on the Vogue and we will quote it.