The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch

Bumblebee86 · 27th September 2009, 10:54

PRESS RELEASE:

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch is Launched

• The most luxurious and exclusive off-roader ever – only one hundred will be produced each year for the global market

• Based on 2010 MY 503 bhp Supercharged or TDV8 Range Rover

• Completely bespoke interior and exterior, featuring:

• 31 piece gunstock walnut or special wood veneers for dashboard, consoles and door inserts

• Individually numbered build plaque hand-made by Holland & Holland's own gun engravers

• Holland & Holland style engraving to steering wheel spokes with option of bespoke engraving to match client's gun

• Complete interior in unique colour, extra fine hides, with recessed Holland & Holland signature line in contrast colour

• Unique four-seater layout featuring hand-veneered rear console with integrated refrigerator and Holland & Holland crystal ware

• Self-replenishing drinks cabinet featuring Pol Roger champagne, The Balvenie single malt whisky, Hendrick's small-batch gin, Ivan the Terrible luxury vodka and Willow Spring Water from the Lake District.

• Hand crafted gun cabinet to luggage compartment with fitted drawers for guns, cartridges etc.

• Four unique exterior colours – with optional Duo Tone paintwork

• Priced from £120,894 for export, from £139,650 OTR in the UK

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_10.jpg

Holland & Holland, makers of the world's finest sporting guns and Overfinch, designers and manufacturers of exclusive Range Rover enhancements, have joined forces to create the ultimate luxury off-roader. The Holland & Holland Range Rover was conceived with a single intention: to create the ultimate all purpose, all season, luxury supercar for the discerning few. Designers and engineers at both Holland & Holland and Overfinch have worked together to create a car that embodies Holland & Holland's unique sporting heritage and Overfinch's bespoke craftsmanship. The result is a quintessentially English take on motoring luxury.

Based on either the 5.0 litre 503 bhp Supercharged or TDV8 versions of the new 2010 MY car, the Holland & Holland Overfinch features a raft of enhancements that make it unmistakably something very special. On the outside, it has discreet but effective styling changes manufactured from OEM grade thermoplastic polymers, which give unsurpassed quality and durability. Bodywork is painted in one of four unique exterior paint colours, including Holland & Holland Tintern Green. Two-tone paintwork, similar to that of a Rolls-Royce Phantom, is also available, as is black. Overfinch's craftsmen take 130 man hours to paint and hand-polish the car, which gives a depth of colour and quality of finish that marks it out from its mass-produced brethren from a hundred yards. Orange peel, the cellulite-like effect that is visible on many cars considerably more expensive than this one, is banished by Overfinch craftsmen's skill and hard work. The effect is completed by Overfinch's iconic 20" Tiger wheels (fitted with all season Mud & Snow tyres) and special cast exhaust outlets. A choice of 22" wheels is an optionfor those not intending to venture off road, or for those who also possess a winter set.

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_16.jpg

But it is on the inside that the designers have really excelled themselves. Eight of Europe's finest hides, of a grade so fine it is only normally used in private jets, dyed in seven exclusive tones, are used to create a cabin of rare luxury. Professionals from both Overfinch and Holland & Holland have worked closely with a colour and trim specialist to ensure that interiors and exteriors complement one another perfectly. A unique trim style covers the seats, doors, upper and lower dash board, centre and rear consoles and even the cubby box lid, which is both cleanly elegant in style and fiendishly expensive in
terms of both labour and materials. Not for this car simple contrasting piping-the Holland & Holland Overfinch, even the contrasting colour signature stripes are cut from individual hides and trimmed to sit nearly flush with the leather surrounding them. As a result, it takes over 150 man hours just to trim the car. If the optional aviation-style quilted leather or Alcantara headlining is selected, it takes even longer.

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_17.jpg

The thirty one piece wood veneer kit blends seamlessly into the design of the rest of the car, including that of the gun cabinet and rear console. There is the choice of Olive Ash Gloss, European Burr Walnut with special diamond pattern inlay, Matt Gunstock Walnut and Piano Black Lacquer with silver inlays.

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_19.jpg

Only one hundred Holland & Holland Overfinches will be produced each year, and every one will be fitted with a special shotgun grade steel plaque, which features Holland & Holland's trademark diamond inserts and "Royal" scroll engraving,hand-made by Holland & Holland's craftsmen at their Harrow Road factory. The steering wheel has been designed especially for the vehicle too, with a special ergonomic grip and steel inserts, decorated with a design to match the Holland & Holland engraving, or even that of a customer's own shotgun.

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_26.jpg

All Holland & Holland Overfinch vehicles will be strict four-seaters as the cars feature a unique centre console, which fits between the individual rear seats. Hand-veneered to match the rest of the car, it has an integrated refrigerator at floor level, large enough for a couple of full size bottles, which can be cold enough to hold an ice bucket. It also has a storage compartment, which could contain controls for the rear entertainment, a power inverter for a laptop and a Holland & Holland game book as well as Holland & Holland crystal tumblers and champagne flutes.

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_28.jpg

In the boot is a bespoke gun cabinet, hand-crafted in veneers to match the woodwork across the rest of the interior. Although it is itself removable for when more luggage carrying capacity is required, it is locked to the boot floor for security and safety. It has three drawers, fitted to carry eight further matching Holland & Holland crystal tumblers and flutes, customers' own shotguns, a cleaning kit for them as well as cartridges and the bag in which to carry them. Additional drawers are available with alternative interiors so that, between the end of one shooting season and the beginning of the next, it can serve whatever purpose the vehicle's owner requires, from a picnic at Ascot to an evening at Glyndebourne.

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_06.jpg

Contained within both the gun cabinet and the refrigerator in the centre console is room for six bottles and it is for these that the car will feature the world's first self-replenishing cocktail cabinet. All cars sold in Europe will arrive from the factory ull of Pol Roger Champagne, The Balvenie single malt whisky, Hendrick's single batch gin, Ivan the Terrible luxury vodka and Willow Spring Water from the Lake District. During the first year regular refills will be dispatched to the owners of the car to make sure that its passengers don't go thirsty.

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_22.jpg

Daryl Greatrex, Managing Director of Holland & Holland, said, "Holland & Holland is globally synonymous with both luxury and supreme functionality. To look at, to handle and to shoot with a Holland & Holland is to appreciate 174 years of using the best craftsmanship and technology to make things work supremely well and look even better. It's ten years since we had a Holland & Holland Range Rover and we decided that working with Overfinch was the only way to do it this time. Over the years it has become clear that what AMG is to Mercedes and Alpina is to BMW, so Overfinch is to Range Rover."

The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch-rr_hh_of_hi_38.jpg

Neil Underwood, Chief Operating Officer of Overfinch added, "There has always been a great deal of talk in the media speculating that Range Rovers could start approaching Bentley levels of luxury. For one hundred fortunate customers, that will now become a reality. Our designers and engineers have worked closely with the quite astonishing craftsmen of Holland & Holland to create the most exclusive, most luxurious off-roader ever built."

sajands · 27th September 2009, 13:51

Wow, this is one good looking range rover. Who will feel like taking this beauty off roading!!!!

shankar.balan · 27th September 2009, 15:07

I say old chap - out for a day's grouse-shooting on the moors, what?

Jokes apart - this is bespoke Brit Aristocratic Luxury like nothing else is.

Only thing given the harsh reality of the "re-distribution of wealth" the only chaps likely to be able to afford such things would be the new-gen dudes, Politicians/ Dictators from the African Continent, Drug Barons from South -Central America, the new gen terror and drug Sultans from Asia Minor, Russian Oligarchs, Arab Oil Squillionaires, Hollywood celebs, Rap Stars, Footballers and the like.

Closer home in India the customer list would probably include successful cricketers, rogue politicos (who will claim of course that it is a "gift from the adoring masses"), the new gen merchant princes and Bollywood personalities - in short the great Indian "Nouveau Riche", lucre being the great leveller here which usually enables people who possess it to acquire at least the external trappings of "class" to go with it.

I dont think the hereditary aristocrats of old wealth have enough left in their collective coffers to afford such luxuries any more!

Whoever the potential owners may be, at least we common people can appreciate the superb levels of finesse, craftsmanship and quality in this ultimate off roader!

Sudan_NFS · 27th September 2009, 19:58

For this car off roading might be bad indian roads and no body will take a risk in putting this car in real off roading.

grandkruizer · 27th September 2009, 20:36

Bandook and botel in the boot!!!

I like, I like!

desertfox · 28th September 2009, 10:34

Its not new, it was launched way back in 2003, but there are not much takers. Land Rover had brought one to display in Dubai as well. Their Middle East Marketing manager brought it along to exhibit it in one of my Desert Events. I did drive it for 15 - 20 minutes on some medium sized dunes.

It performed like any other Range Rover, fair in the desert, neither very good nor bad, the power is awesome no doubt and the interior trims quite pleasing, designer stuff in fact.

Also in Molland, Yorkshire, at a property owned by H & H then, we went on a Pheasant shoot in 2004, where this vehicle was brought along by the Landrover team who were also on the shoot. On one of the drives it got bogged down in some mud and slush and who pulled it out ? A good old Landrover Country Defender 110.

jkdas · 28th September 2009, 15:00

Beauty! Pretty pricey but awesome. Something a millionaire should have. You drive, you shoot, you barbeque and then toast.

motor spirit · 28th September 2009, 18:31

IMO this Limited edition will sell like hot cakes..good work by H&H ..
more happy as it will help LR's bootom line ..

14000rpm · 1st October 2009, 06:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by motor spirit

IMO this Limited edition will sell like hot cakes..good work by H&H ..
more happy as it will help LR's bootom line ..

super cool car. definitely not for the 'off road' kinds. its a bar on the move. looks classy.

prince_pervez · 1st October 2009, 08:14

Looks beautiful. I did not like the interiors that much though(dash section only). The blue is not going too well with the wooden finish IMHO.

27th September 2009, 10:54	#1
Bumblebee86 BANNED Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Gudaibiya; BAHRAIN/ Vandiperiyar; KERALA/ Wuhan; CHINA Posts: 359 Thanked: 6 Times	The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch PRESS RELEASE: The Holland & Holland Range Rover by Overfinch is Launched • The most luxurious and exclusive off-roader ever – only one hundred will be produced each year for the global market • Based on 2010 MY 503 bhp Supercharged or TDV8 Range Rover • Completely bespoke interior and exterior, featuring: • 31 piece gunstock walnut or special wood veneers for dashboard, consoles and door inserts • Individually numbered build plaque hand-made by Holland & Holland's own gun engravers • Holland & Holland style engraving to steering wheel spokes with option of bespoke engraving to match client's gun • Complete interior in unique colour, extra fine hides, with recessed Holland & Holland signature line in contrast colour • Unique four-seater layout featuring hand-veneered rear console with integrated refrigerator and Holland & Holland crystal ware • Self-replenishing drinks cabinet featuring Pol Roger champagne, The Balvenie single malt whisky, Hendrick's small-batch gin, Ivan the Terrible luxury vodka and Willow Spring Water from the Lake District. • Hand crafted gun cabinet to luggage compartment with fitted drawers for guns, cartridges etc. • Four unique exterior colours – with optional Duo Tone paintwork • Priced from £120,894 for export, from £139,650 OTR in the UK Holland & Holland, makers of the world's finest sporting guns and Overfinch, designers and manufacturers of exclusive Range Rover enhancements, have joined forces to create the ultimate luxury off-roader. The Holland & Holland Range Rover was conceived with a single intention: to create the ultimate all purpose, all season, luxury supercar for the discerning few. Designers and engineers at both Holland & Holland and Overfinch have worked together to create a car that embodies Holland & Holland's unique sporting heritage and Overfinch's bespoke craftsmanship. The result is a quintessentially English take on motoring luxury. Based on either the 5.0 litre 503 bhp Supercharged or TDV8 versions of the new 2010 MY car, the Holland & Holland Overfinch features a raft of enhancements that make it unmistakably something very special. On the outside, it has discreet but effective styling changes manufactured from OEM grade thermoplastic polymers, which give unsurpassed quality and durability. Bodywork is painted in one of four unique exterior paint colours, including Holland & Holland Tintern Green. Two-tone paintwork, similar to that of a Rolls-Royce Phantom, is also available, as is black. Overfinch's craftsmen take 130 man hours to paint and hand-polish the car, which gives a depth of colour and quality of finish that marks it out from its mass-produced brethren from a hundred yards. Orange peel, the cellulite-like effect that is visible on many cars considerably more expensive than this one, is banished by Overfinch craftsmen's skill and hard work. The effect is completed by Overfinch's iconic 20" Tiger wheels (fitted with all season Mud & Snow tyres) and special cast exhaust outlets. A choice of 22" wheels is an optionfor those not intending to venture off road, or for those who also possess a winter set. But it is on the inside that the designers have really excelled themselves. Eight of Europe's finest hides, of a grade so fine it is only normally used in private jets, dyed in seven exclusive tones, are used to create a cabin of rare luxury. Professionals from both Overfinch and Holland & Holland have worked closely with a colour and trim specialist to ensure that interiors and exteriors complement one another perfectly. A unique trim style covers the seats, doors, upper and lower dash board, centre and rear consoles and even the cubby box lid, which is both cleanly elegant in style and fiendishly expensive in terms of both labour and materials. Not for this car simple contrasting piping-the Holland & Holland Overfinch, even the contrasting colour signature stripes are cut from individual hides and trimmed to sit nearly flush with the leather surrounding them. As a result, it takes over 150 man hours just to trim the car. If the optional aviation-style quilted leather or Alcantara headlining is selected, it takes even longer. The thirty one piece wood veneer kit blends seamlessly into the design of the rest of the car, including that of the gun cabinet and rear console. There is the choice of Olive Ash Gloss, European Burr Walnut with special diamond pattern inlay, Matt Gunstock Walnut and Piano Black Lacquer with silver inlays. Only one hundred Holland & Holland Overfinches will be produced each year, and every one will be fitted with a special shotgun grade steel plaque, which features Holland & Holland's trademark diamond inserts and "Royal" scroll engraving,hand-made by Holland & Holland's craftsmen at their Harrow Road factory. The steering wheel has been designed especially for the vehicle too, with a special ergonomic grip and steel inserts, decorated with a design to match the Holland & Holland engraving, or even that of a customer's own shotgun. All Holland & Holland Overfinch vehicles will be strict four-seaters as the cars feature a unique centre console, which fits between the individual rear seats. Hand-veneered to match the rest of the car, it has an integrated refrigerator at floor level, large enough for a couple of full size bottles, which can be cold enough to hold an ice bucket. It also has a storage compartment, which could contain controls for the rear entertainment, a power inverter for a laptop and a Holland & Holland game book as well as Holland & Holland crystal tumblers and champagne flutes. In the boot is a bespoke gun cabinet, hand-crafted in veneers to match the woodwork across the rest of the interior. Although it is itself removable for when more luggage carrying capacity is required, it is locked to the boot floor for security and safety. It has three drawers, fitted to carry eight further matching Holland & Holland crystal tumblers and flutes, customers' own shotguns, a cleaning kit for them as well as cartridges and the bag in which to carry them. Additional drawers are available with alternative interiors so that, between the end of one shooting season and the beginning of the next, it can serve whatever purpose the vehicle's owner requires, from a picnic at Ascot to an evening at Glyndebourne. Contained within both the gun cabinet and the refrigerator in the centre console is room for six bottles and it is for these that the car will feature the world's first self-replenishing cocktail cabinet. All cars sold in Europe will arrive from the factory ull of Pol Roger Champagne, The Balvenie single malt whisky, Hendrick's single batch gin, Ivan the Terrible luxury vodka and Willow Spring Water from the Lake District. During the first year regular refills will be dispatched to the owners of the car to make sure that its passengers don't go thirsty. Daryl Greatrex, Managing Director of Holland & Holland, said, "Holland & Holland is globally synonymous with both luxury and supreme functionality. To look at, to handle and to shoot with a Holland & Holland is to appreciate 174 years of using the best craftsmanship and technology to make things work supremely well and look even better. It's ten years since we had a Holland & Holland Range Rover and we decided that working with Overfinch was the only way to do it this time. Over the years it has become clear that what AMG is to Mercedes and Alpina is to BMW, so Overfinch is to Range Rover." Neil Underwood, Chief Operating Officer of Overfinch added, "There has always been a great deal of talk in the media speculating that Range Rovers could start approaching Bentley levels of luxury. For one hundred fortunate customers, that will now become a reality. Our designers and engineers have worked closely with the quite astonishing craftsmen of Holland & Holland to create the most exclusive, most luxurious off-roader ever built."
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27th September 2009, 13:51	#2
sajands BHPian Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bangalore Posts: 967 Thanked: 454 Times View My Garage	Wow, this is one good looking range rover. Who will feel like taking this beauty off roading!!!!
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27th September 2009, 15:07	#3
shankar.balan BANNED Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Bangalore Posts: 11,797 Thanked: 27,220 Times View My Garage Infractions: 0/3 (13)	I say old chap - out for a day's grouse-shooting on the moors, what? Jokes apart - this is bespoke Brit Aristocratic Luxury like nothing else is. Only thing given the harsh reality of the "re-distribution of wealth" the only chaps likely to be able to afford such things would be the new-gen dudes, Politicians/ Dictators from the African Continent, Drug Barons from South -Central America, the new gen terror and drug Sultans from Asia Minor, Russian Oligarchs, Arab Oil Squillionaires, Hollywood celebs, Rap Stars, Footballers and the like. Closer home in India the customer list would probably include successful cricketers, rogue politicos (who will claim of course that it is a "gift from the adoring masses"), the new gen merchant princes and Bollywood personalities - in short the great Indian "Nouveau Riche", lucre being the great leveller here which usually enables people who possess it to acquire at least the external trappings of "class" to go with it. I dont think the hereditary aristocrats of old wealth have enough left in their collective coffers to afford such luxuries any more! Whoever the potential owners may be, at least we common people can appreciate the superb levels of finesse, craftsmanship and quality in this ultimate off roader! Last edited by shankar.balan : 27th September 2009 at 15:10.
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27th September 2009, 19:58	#4
Sudan_NFS BHPian Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: chennai Posts: 759 Thanked: 16 Times	For this car off roading might be bad indian roads and no body will take a risk in putting this car in real off roading.
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27th September 2009, 20:36	#5
grandkruizer BHPian Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: DOHA/GURUVAYUR Posts: 77 Thanked: 12 Times View My Garage	Hmm.. Bandook and botel in the boot!!! I like, I like!
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28th September 2009, 10:34	#6
desertfox Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Gurgaon, Delhi NCR Posts: 1,270 Thanked: 651 Times	Its not new, it was launched way back in 2003, but there are not much takers. Land Rover had brought one to display in Dubai as well. Their Middle East Marketing manager brought it along to exhibit it in one of my Desert Events. I did drive it for 15 - 20 minutes on some medium sized dunes. It performed like any other Range Rover, fair in the desert, neither very good nor bad, the power is awesome no doubt and the interior trims quite pleasing, designer stuff in fact. Also in Molland, Yorkshire, at a property owned by H & H then, we went on a Pheasant shoot in 2004, where this vehicle was brought along by the Landrover team who were also on the shoot. On one of the drives it got bogged down in some mud and slush and who pulled it out ? A good old Landrover Country Defender 110.
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28th September 2009, 15:00	#7
jkdas Senior - BHPian Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Thiruvananthapu Posts: 9,687 Thanked: 1,496 Times View My Garage	Beauty! Pretty pricey but awesome. Something a millionaire should have. You drive, you shoot, you barbeque and then toast.
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28th September 2009, 18:31	#8
motor spirit BHPian Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: bangalore Posts: 236 Thanked: 112 Times	IMO this Limited edition will sell like hot cakes..good work by H&H .. more happy as it will help LR's bootom line ..
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1st October 2009, 08:14	#10
prince_pervez Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Redwood shores, CA, USA Posts: 4,211 Thanked: 53 Times View My Garage	Looks beautiful. I did not like the interiors that much though(dash section only). The blue is not going too well with the wooden finish IMHO. Last edited by prince_pervez : 1st October 2009 at 08:15.
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