You won’t find a Range Rover badge on this familiar-looking 2025 super-luxe 4x4. That’s because as far as its modifiers are concerned it’s not a Range Rover. Instead, it's the Velocity Edition by Overfinch, Leeds-based specialists in transforming already luxurious Range Rovers into something even more luxurious. Overfinch is the badge you’ll find on the nose, for instance – a nose now resculpted and remanufactured in carbon fibre. This gives a clue to this build: first add more, then add even more.
Carbon fibre is extensively used on the Velocity Edition. There’s that reshaped clamshell bonnet, prominent side skirts and a rear splitter, which takes us just a little far from the Range Rover’s original 1970 design brief of being slightly upscale farmers’ transport across fields. This, instead, is the hand-crafted high-end territory that is Overfinch’s trademark. New wheel arches? Also carbon fibre. The eye-catching Helix wheels - each carved from a single piece of aluminium - have the self-centring Overfinch logo centre cap you’ve always promised yourself.
Thing is, though, your jaw may drop when you see the interior. Aside from the carbon fibre trim you’d expect there’s the colour rush of the ventilated Arancia Orange leather encasing Overfinch’s own Aurora seat design. There’s orange leather accents to the dash, steering wheel and to interior door panels. It’s a hugely confident display of automotive interior design, nicely complementing the source Range Rover’s near-minimalism. Rear seating is strictly for two, but honestly do you really need the labrador?
Velocity Edition by Overfinch: Under the hood
Mechanical changes - despite what Overfinch call a “carbon fibre bonnet power dome” - are limited on standard Velocity Editions to a variable valve performance exhaust system, which Overfinch says is responsible for "delivering an exhilarating sound that matches its unforgettable experience on the road". Power dome fans will of course want more. And there is more: Overfinch Performance upgrades can boost output from a mere 520 bhp - adequate - to 630 bhp - lunatic, but essential for those fast laps at Brands which will also show off the effect of side skirts, rear spoiler and diffuser.
So if you’re looking for something to take you to Harrods via the Alps and then on to your country home up a track in the Scottish Highlands, with a quick stop at the Goodwood Revival in the pouring rain, then this is your vehicle. Particularly if you view Range Rovers as a bit, well, common. Pricing is a little in the if-you-have-to-ask department, particularly since there are many options on Overfinch’s faintly addictive configurator to play with.
But first get a new or nearly new Range Rover. Then give Overfinch at least £104,000 - depending how frugal you’ve been on options - and a Velocity Edition is at your service, for a total price tag knocking on £220,000. Worth it just to get rid of pesky Range Rover badges? We’ll happily join you for a test drive up a mountain to find out.
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