2011 Range Rover Vogue SE

Finished in Sumatra Black with an ivory leather and contrasting piano black interior, this wonderfully opulent Vogue SE includes climate-controlled front seats with heating and cooling and a Telestart key fob, which turns the auxiliary heater on and off from up to 100m away.

This means you can warm the cabin and clear the windows on cold and frosty mornings without leaving the warmth of your home. Combined with a full set of winter tyres, this Range Rover might just be the most luxurious way to keep mobile in wintry conditions we’ve ever come across.

It’s also had a lot of money spent on upgrading it with genuine Land Rover accessories such as deployable sidesteps, a new towbar and 14-pin electrics, and a spare wheel lifter. This is all in addition to a massive list of OE options that includes Adaptive Cruise Control. The full list can be seen in photo #378.

In the care of the seller for the past three years and still showing fewer than 120,000 miles on the odometer, it comes with a brilliant service history. Being offered with no reserve, if you’re in the market for an L322 Range Rover then you can stop looking because it’s right here with us in Abingdon.

As regular readers will know, black is the most unforgiving colour of them all, so when you see one that looks as good as this, you know there’s nothing nasty lurking underneath a fresh coat of polish.

It does shine beautifully, of course, but that shine also demonstrates in the clearest possible way that this is a Range Rover for whom dents, dinks and scuffs are alien concepts.

It’s got great shutlines and panel gaps too, as is the window glass, light lenses, and badges. This is a Range Rover that gives every indication that it has been treated very well indeed.

Take the wheels, for example. Genuine Range Rover alloys, the 20-inch wheels are not only free of dinks and scuffs, they are fitted with matching Bridgestone Blizzak winter tyres, all of which look to have good tread left on them having only been fitted in October 2020 and or about 2000 miles ago according to our vendor.

We will never get tired of telling you that experience shows that matching high-quality tyres are an infallible sign of a caring and mechanically sympathetic owner who is prepared to spend the appropriate amount in maintaining their car properly. Their presence does not, of course, preclude the need for a thorough inspection - something the vendor would welcome, by the way – but it does perhaps give you a shortcut into their attitude towards maintenance.

Brilliantly, genuine Land Rover deployable sidesteps were professionally installed in June 2020 at a total cost of £2000. These are much more practical than the chrome bars that were fitted at the factory and are fully automatic, operating whenever a door is unlocked or opened (except when in 'Rock Crawl' mode). They can be overidden to 'off' or constantly deployed using the ceiling mounted button in the cabin, something that helps enormously if you need to reach the roof to wash it or get into a roof box.

More good news comes with the news that the removeable tow bracket was replaced with a new one approximately three years ago, purely for cosmetic reasons. The towing electrical socket was also upgraded to a 14-pinstyle to suit later trailers and bike carriers, and there is a spare number plate in the luggage compartment.

And, while we’re on the subject of fastidious care and carefully selected upgrades, the spare wheel lifter and tailgate prop from the early L322 has been retro-fitted. This was not factory fitted from new but does make lifting the spare wheel from the boot-well very easy.

The ZF eight-speed gearbox means you get the rising rotary controller for the gearchange, just like you do in modern Range Rovers. That’s a lovely touch but then this ivory leather interior is an absolutely glorious place to be.

Mind you, a minimalist design like this means that any flaws and faults are exposed, so the fact this one looks as good as it does tells you all you need to know about its curation, curation that included spending well over a thousand pounds just under three years ago to have the front seats rebuilt and some wear to the leather facings in the cabin restored. Further restorative work was carried out in July and August 2022; the seller is clearly every bit as fastidious as you’d hope.

As you’d expect, the front seats are barely creased, while the rears could be a year old rather than a dozen. The front seats are heated and cooled, and the rears are heated. The seller tells us that they have spent a fortune in getting everything in there working, including a new motor for the heater on the driver’s seat (#374).

That wonderful colour might lift the cabin and give it a light and contemporary feel but it also shows off every single mark – so the fact we can’t see anything in there that would bother us is credit to the seller.

Dark grey carpets are a practical touch and they, like everything else, look much newer than they actually are.

It’s fully loaded, so please take a look at photo #378 for the full specification. Highlights are the Harman Kardon sound system (and working TV!) and the digital dashboard. We are told that they, like everything in the cabin, work as they should.

The boot is as clean as the rest of the interior but then you’d guessed that by now, hadn’t you? It’s also home to the full-size spare alloy wheel and tool kit, a set-up that includes the easy-lift mechanism and tailgate prop we mentioned earlier.

Oh, and take a look at slide #47 and tell us that’s not the sign of the sort of fastidious owner we should all be lucky enough to be able to buy a used car from.

Then twin-turbo V8 diesel engine combines massive civility with other-worldly torque, all allied to a frugal thirst. It is a wonderfully apt engine for a vehicle like this and it starts and runs, as you can see, very well.

There aren’t any warning lights illuminated on the dashboard. Please note that while in the video a message is displayed on the dash saying 'service required', the vendor believes that this is merely a result of the software not being reset at the time of the last service in December 2022. Proof of this service (dated 22/12/2022 at 119,525 miles) can be verified by viewing photos #359 and #331. We are also informed by our vendor that Cavendish Motor Company, would be willing to reset the service indicator (assuming it’s not too far for the new owner to travel).

The underside is as good as the rest of the vehicle but don’t take our word for it; please contact us to make an appointment to come and see it for yourself. We promise you won’t be disappointed.

The service and maintenance record is recorded as follows:

• 16.10.2012 and 9,766 miles – service by Guy Salmon Land Rover of Stockport
• 18.10.2013 and 19,579 miles – service by Holgate Vehicle Services, Land Rover specialists
• 08.09.2014 and 28,075 miles – service by Williams of Hulme
• 08.10.2015 and 43,421 miles – service by Williams of Hulme
• 28.10.2016 and 59,290 miles – service by Williams of Hulme
• 02.11.2017 and 72,901 miles – service by Motec Auto Services
• 03.10.2018 and 88,673 miles – service by Motec Auto Services 01.10.2019 and 103,882 miles – service by Motec Auto Services
• 21.03.2020 and 110,359 miles – service by Guy Salmon Land Rover of Sheffield
• 03.04.2021 and 112,112 miles – service by Guy Salmon Land Rover of Sheffield
• 08.01.2022 and 114,613 miles – service by Guy Salmon Land Rover of Sheffield
• 21.12.2022 and 119,525 miles – service by Cavendish Motors Ltd, independent Land Rover specialists

The front brake discs and pads were replaced with genuine Land Rover parts, along with two of the dampers, in 2020. Two ball joints, along with a steering arm, were changed in January 2022 and April of the same year saw the front discs and pads being changed again.

The rear brake pipes were replaced in December 2022 and the nearside rear brake caliper had been changed six months earlier. These are just the highlights of its maintenance and repair history, so please set aside some time to read it all at the end of the listing.

It comes with its book pack, a wad of old MoT certificates and the invoices we mention above.

The Range Rover’s MoT certificate is valid until December 2023 and it was issued with no advisories, which isn’t a surprise given the above, is it?

The recent Vehicle History Check is clean and it comes with two key fobs.

The L322 Range Rover is now cheap enough that almost anyone can afford to buy one, even if some don’t then spend the appropriate amount on maintaining them…

This means there are some real horror stories out there, cars that could bankrupt you faster than a drunken weekend in Las Vegas.

And then there are examples like this, vehicles that have had all the right money spent in all the right places with all the right people.

One of the last ever made, which means JLR had got its eye in by then, this one demonstrates what a brilliant piece of engineering they are – and its age means it benefits from the later engine and gearbox that were carried over onto the new generation.

As for value, we think this one will sell for somewhere between £10,000 and £15,000 but it’s being offered with no reserve, so it’s going to sell no matter what.

It’s a no-brainer, isn’t it?

Viewing is always encouraged, and this particular car is located with us at The Market HQ, Abingdon. To arrange an appointment please use the Contact Seller button at the top of the listing. Feel free to ask any questions or make observations in the comments section below, or try our ‘Frequently Asked Questions’.