The Range Rover Sport SV from The Gentlemen Looks Great. It Will Lose You £45,000 in a Year. Buy This Instead

Watching Season 2 of The Gentlemen Makes Me Want a Range Rover. I'm Not Going to Buy One.

If you have been watching The Gentlemen Season 2 on Netflix, you will have noticed the cars. Eddie Horniman, the 13th Duke of Halstead, former army captain, increasingly committed gangster drives an all-black 2025 Range Rover Sport SV. It looks exactly right. The tinted glass, the blacked-out trim, the way it sits on a gravel driveway outside a country estate. Guy Ritchie knows how to make a car feel aspirational, and the Range Rover Sport SV is aspirational television.

It is not an aspirational investment. And that gap between how good it looks on screen and what it actually does to your bank balance is the entire point of this blog.

The Range Rover Sport SV: £165,000 New. £120,000 Today.

A new 2025 Range Rover Sport SV costs approximately £165,000 new. In twelve months, the same car with normal mileage is worth around £120,000. That is a loss of £45,000 in a single year, simply from owning it. Before fuel. Before insurance. Before servicing. Before the cost of having £165,000 of capital tied up in a depreciating asset rather than working elsewhere.

And the trajectory does not improve. Range Rover loses 62.9% of its value on average over the course of five years. On a £165,000 car, that is over £100,000 gone in five years. 

The Sport SV is beautifully marketed in The Gentlemen. I understand why it makes you want one. I feel it watching the show. But the car Eddie Horniman drives on screen is losing thousands every month. 

I would never buy one.

For the Same Budget: Jaguar XE SV Project 8

At around the same price point as a well-specced used Range Rover Sport SV, there is a car that represents the polar opposite investment case and that PistonHeads recently described as one of the only V8 Jaguars in recent memory that has not depreciated.

The Jaguar XE SV Project 8. Only 300 examples were built, all left-hand drive, each taking two weeks to build at the SVO plant in Coventry. The Project 8 is far more than just a maxed-out super saloon. It is a technical marvel, with brilliant attention to detail at every level of its construction. The 5.0-litre supercharged V8 produces 600 horsepower. It holds the Nürburgring lap record for a four-door production saloon. Faster than many dedicated supercars. Today, these one of the only V8 Jaguars in recent memory not to have depreciated. 

The investment case is the same one that drives every appreciating car on this list. It will never be made again. Jaguar has relaunched as an all-electric brand. The supercharged V8 that powers the Project 8 one of the greatest engines the company ever produced will never be fitted to a new Jaguar again. The XE SV Project 8 is therefore not just a rare car. It is the final, most extreme expression of the supercharged Jaguar V8 saloon that the brand produced. That chapter is permanently closed. 300 cars. All left-hand drive. The clock only moves in one direction for both the supply of excellent examples and the recognition of what the car represents.

Two Cars. Same Budget. Completely Different Outcomes.

The 2025 Range Rover Sport SV: £165,000 new. Worth £120,000 after one year. Projected to lose 62.9% of its value over five years. Brilliant on screen. Painful in reality.

The Jaguar XE SV Project 8: £149,995 new in 2018. Now listing at or above original price. The only V8 Jaguar not to have depreciated. 300 built worldwide. The last of the supercharged Jaguar V8 saloon era. Set to grow.

Both are exceptional machines. Only one of them makes sense to own if you care about what happens to your money.

The Range Rover Sport SV will make you look like Eddie Horniman for about twelve months before you sell it and experience the depreciation. The Project 8 will still be worth what you paid for it, and probably more. When the Range Rover is half its purchase price and you are explaining to someone why you ignored the numbers.

Don't buy the wrong cars. I've spent a significant amount of time putting together a non-generic list of the 100 best investment cars to buy in 2026, under-appreciated, last of their kind, and where the market of buyers is growing. 100 cars that won't depreciate.

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