2014 land rover autobiography

SENIOR MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: Took a quick hop to Indianapolis Motor Speedway and back, and though I can daydream of many vehicles suited ideally to the task, this long-wheelbase Land Rover Range Rover Autobiography is definitely in my first tier of road-tripping all-stars … well, aside from its wallet-draining fuel consumption.

I used almost an entire tankfull strictly for highway driving, and despite the use of the engine's automatic stop/start function for the times I was on stop-and-go roads -- and the fact I rarely struck the 80-mph barrier throughout the heavily policed roads of Indiana and Ohio -- the supercharged V8 delivered less than 18 mpg.

But if you have $144K to burn right out of your gate on a luxury sport SUV, complaining afterward about the cost of fuel strikes me as, oh, just a wee bit preposterous. No one needs a loaded-to-t