# Bentley Bentayga vs Range Rover Autobiography: which to lease?

URL: https://performanceandprestige.co.uk/guides/bentley-bentayga-vs-range-rover-autobiography

Last checked: 2026-09-11

**The Bentley Bentayga V8 S is in our own fleet; the long-wheelbase Range Rover Autobiography is arranged through a vetted partner. Both run on a three-month minimum term and both are quoted on request. Take the Bentley if you are driving; take the Range Rover if the important seat is behind you — and note that it accepts a driver at twenty-five where the Bentley asks thirty.**

Two ways of spending a lot of money on a quiet SUV. One is built around the driver and is ours; the other is built around the rear seat and is arranged through a partner.

## Which seat are you buying?

That single question settles most of this comparison. The [Bentley Bentayga V8 S](https://performanceandprestige.co.uk/cars/bentley-bentayga-v8-s) is a driver's car that happens to be enormously comfortable for passengers. It is set up so that the person behind the wheel has something to enjoy, and the cabin is built to a standard of material and finish that nothing else in the category quite matches.

The [Range Rover Autobiography LWB](https://performanceandprestige.co.uk/cars/range-rover-autobiography-lwb) is the long-wheelbase car, and the extra length goes entirely to the rear compartment: around 200mm of additional rear legroom over the standard car, and the quietest cabin Land Rover has built. If you are the one being collected, that is the car you want to be collected in.

## How each one gets quoted, and which of the two we hold

The Bentayga V8 S is in our own fleet. We own it, prepare it, deliver it and carry the risk on it, so when you ask, the figure and the dates come straight back: a three-month minimum term, one month up front, then one a month, with 1,000 miles a month included.

The Range Rover Autobiography LWB is arranged through a vetted partner, so the same enquiry runs through a confirmation step before any of that can be said. Neither figure is published — no car on this site shows one. One thing to be precise about when you ask: the Autobiography badge appears on both the standard-wheelbase and the long-wheelbase car, and they are meaningfully different objects. It is the LWB we list, and it is the LWB that has the rear compartment this comparison is really about, so say which one you mean and we will confirm the right car rather than the right badge.

## Who is allowed to lease each one?

This is the difference people miss, and on these two it is large. The Bentayga V8 S is set at a minimum age of thirty, with a full licence held for at least five years and no more than six points.

The Range Rover Autobiography LWB is set at twenty-five, with three years of licence and the same six-point allowance — which makes it one of the most accessible cars of this size and price anywhere in the catalogue. If you are twenty-six and have been dismissed by every other prestige SUV you have looked at, this is the one to ask about. Criteria of this kind follow the insurance profile of the specific vehicle, not the badge or the value, and all of them are provisional until the insurance arrangement is finalised and confirmed with you.

## What does each cost to hold for three months?

Beyond the monthly figure, three numbers matter: the deposit, the excess and the mileage rate. The Bentayga V8 S holds a refundable £5,000 deposit against a card in the hirer's own name and carries a £5,000 insurance excess — on the cars we own those two figures match exactly, so the deposit describes your maximum exposure on a covered claim. Mileage above the allowance is £2.50 a mile.

The Range Rover Autobiography LWB sits at £3,500 for both the deposit and the excess, with mileage at £1.50 a mile. With 1,000 miles a month to work with, the mileage difference alone is worth doing the arithmetic on if you cover real distance. The monthly figure is only ever part of the picture, and we set all of it out before the form rather than after it.

## Which is better for a business or a chauffeur arrangement?

The long-wheelbase Range Rover, almost always. It was designed for exactly this — a rear compartment somebody works or rests in while another person drives — and it does it without the theatre that a Bentley brings to an arrival.

If the lease is going through a company, say so at the enquiry stage: a business lease is a different application to a personal one, and the tax treatment of any vehicle agreement is a question for your accountant rather than for us. The practical points we can help with are the ones that actually bite — who is named as a driver, whose card the deposit sits on, and which addresses the car will be delivered to and collected from.

## Is the Bentley worth the extra?

It depends entirely on how much time you will spend in the driver's seat. The Bentayga's advantage is concentrated there: the way it steers, the way it sounds when you ask it to move, the finish of the things your hands touch. Sit in the back of both and the Range Rover's extra length is the more obvious luxury.

There is also a badge answer, and it is worth being honest about it. A Bentayga is read as a considerably more expensive object than a Range Rover, even by people who could not name either. If that reading is part of why you are leasing, it is a legitimate reason and it points at the Bentley. If it is not, the Range Rover does the useful ninety per cent for less money held in deposits and less charged per mile.

## Driver or passenger: the question that decides it

Take the Bentayga V8 S if you are the driver, if you would rather the car be ours than arranged through anybody, and if the quality of the cabin is something you will actually notice every morning.

Take the Range Rover Autobiography LWB if the back seat is the point, if you are under thirty and need a car that will actually accept you, or if you want the calmest possible way to cover long distances with somebody else at the wheel. Both are delivered to an address you choose in mainland Britain and collected from it at the end. If you are genuinely torn, send both names with your enquiry and we will quote the pair so you are choosing between two real figures rather than two assumptions.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much rear legroom does the long-wheelbase Range Rover add?

Around 200mm over the standard car, and all of it goes to the rear compartment. That is the single reason to choose the LWB — if nobody is going to sit behind you regularly, the extra length is a parking problem rather than a benefit.

### Can I lease the Range Rover Autobiography at 25?

That is its stated minimum age, alongside a full licence held for at least three years and no more than six points. Criteria are provisional while the insurance arrangement is finalised, so we confirm your eligibility at enquiry before anything is agreed rather than leaving you to find out later.

### Is the Bentayga a seven-seater?

The Bentayga V8 S in our fleet is a five-seater. If you need a seventh seat, the Audi SQ7 in our own fleet has one, and the Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 in the sourced catalogue is the larger answer. Both are quoted on request, but the SQ7 is ours, so it is the quicker of the two to confirm.

### Why is there no price on the Range Rover Autobiography?

No car on the site carries a published monthly figure — every one is quoted on enquiry. This one has a step in front of that as well: it is arranged through a partner rather than held by us, so we make no firm availability claim on it until the specific car is confirmed. Promising a price and a date for a car nobody has committed to is the thing this site refuses to do.

*Pre-launch note: the driver criteria, deposits, excesses and mileage allowances quoted here are read from Performance & Prestige's own catalogue data, which is still being confirmed with the owner and the insurer. Read them as the shape of the figures rather than as a quotation. What binds is your written quote and your agreement.*