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Nine ways to make the school run or supermarket dash a little more interesting — the most intriguing luxury daily drivers on sale right now.
If there’s something you’re as likely to see on the driveway of a Supercar Driver as an actual supercar, it’s a nice, cushy daily. There are people on social media who claim they would daily drive an F50 if they had the money. Those people have not driven an F50. In fact, those people are probably 15 and are yet to understand what it’s like to have an adult back, places to be, things to carry, and what a delight a bit of peace and quiet can be.
We encourage our members to pile the miles on their supercars at every opportunity, but those miles are about making memories, so believe it or not, we’ll forgive you not strapping the kids to the roof of your Lamborghini Huracan STO for the school run.
But that doesn’t mean you want something totally anonymous, so if that sounds like you, here are nine of the most intriguing daily drivers on the market with our dealer partners right now.
2025 (25) | 660 Miles | £159,950
The daily of the moment. The OCTA is the ultimate defender, and rather than the old supercharged V8 previously used in the V8 Defender, this uses BMW’s 4.4-litre turbocharged V8 with 626hp and 700Nm which means this house of a car can hit 62mph in four seconds flat. It also used an advanced 6D Dynamics hydraulic suspension system with raised ride height, widened track and extended wheel arches which house massive 33-inch all-terrain tyres.
The Edition One adds further visual flair with Faroe Green paint, chopped carbon fibre and Khaki and Ebony 3D-knut Ultrafabrics interior trim with “Body&Soul” seats which essentially pulsate with your music!
2024 (74) | 8,000 Miles | £209,995
If the Defender is a bit rugged for you, you can get the same engine in a nice plush Range Rover, but even a top spec SV might blend in a bit much for this list, so how about a sprinkling of Overfinch bling? When I say a sprinkling, I mean this Range Rover SV has been liberally sprayed with a full Overfinch bodykit with enough carbon fibre to embarrass many Ferraris.
You also get 24-inch wheels and an Overfinch performance sports exhaust system on top of all the lap of luxury you’d expect from the SV, being the most special Range Rover you can buy from Land Rover. Cheap? Absolutely not. But if you want to be different from the next Range Rover in Waitrose, this will do the trick.
2024 | 2,900 Miles | £229,991
Perhaps the best car on the planet for combining luxury and performance, the latest Bentley Continental GT actually shares its architecture with the Porsche Panamera and had development input from Porsche too, so the big girl can really dance.
This Speed model, which now has a hybridised four-litre twin-turbo V8 instead of the old W12, puts out a mammoth 782hp and 1,000Nm torque, meaning it can hit 62mph in 3.2 seconds and reach 208mph in a car that will cruise down the motorway in total silence on electricity alone while giving your buttocks a hot relaxing massage.
The original list price of this First Edition was around £305,000, and just a year and 2,900 miles later, it’s up for £75,000 less!
2008 (58) | 26,250 Miles | £116,950
If the newer Bentleys are a bit footballer for you, I’d put money on you liking this. The Brooklands is the last of the old-school Bentleys, the final symbol of the way Bentley used to be before VW took control, for better and worse. Whilst they were never the cutting edge of tech and kit, they were special, they felt like the result of passionate British craftsmanship, and they were cool.
These cars are becoming more and more appreciated by a niche group of people, and if you drive a Brooklands today, you’re not doing it to look rich. Remember the beginning of Gone in Sixty Seconds, when the Ferrari salesman said of driving a 275 GTB/4, “You would not be a self-indulgent wiener, sir, you would be a connoisseur”? For me, that quote epitomises this car, and from what I can see, barely more than 60 of these exist in the UK, so the odds of seeing another are slim.
2018 (18) | 29,000 Miles | £197,480
There is no more ultimate symbol of luxury on four wheels than a Rolls-Royce Phantom, and the Phantom 8 is an absolute mansion on wheels. Driving around in this anywhere in the UK other than central London is about as subtle as flying through in the Millennium Falcon, but what it lacks in subtlety, it more than makes up for in silent V12 power and the sheer softness of its carpets.
The most appealing thing about this Phantom though is the sheer amount of money its previous owners have lost, which means this behemoth, which once cost well in excess of £400,000, can now be had for less than £200,000 with just 29,000 miles on the clock.
2023 (23) | 7,000 Miles | £79,500
Ok, a Toyota might seem a bit out of place on this list, but Toyota is no stranger to luxury. There was the V12-powered Century and the Lexus LS400, which pushed the Germans to up their game in the ‘90s. Then there’s the Land Cruiser, which started life as a military off-roader, but like other similar cars, has become a big, cushy cruiser.
You either get the Land Cruiser or you don’t, but there’s something about its indestructible reputation and its left-field nature. Driving a Land Cruiser is like saying, “I can afford to drive a Range Rover, but I don’t want to”.
Unlike the J250 model we now get in the UK, this is the more luxurious J300 model, which wasn’t sold new in the UK. It’ll be a rarer sight, it has all the luxuries you could want and a silky twin-turbo petrol V6 with 415hp rather than the J250’s 2.8-litre four-cylinder diesel with a paltry 201hp.
2016 (16) | 16,000 Miles | £164,950
If the Land Cruiser is function over form, something to dependably do the job without causing a fuss, this, well, this is not that. The Mercedes G Wagon 4x4² (four by four squared) is without doubt capable of crushing sand dunes and mountain ranges, but more than anything, it is a statement of insanity that will turn as many heads as any Lamborghini.
That said, if a beefed up, V8-powered G Wagon on stilts doesn’t sound quite enough, there’s always Brabus. The famous tuning house have made this 4x4² even more in your face with a whole host of their styling tweaks including a carbon fibre bonnet and wheel arches.
It also has enormous off road tyres to make sure you don’t get caught out by any potholes on your way to Harrods — perfect!
2018 (67) | 21,550 Miles | £179,950
If the Brabus tank is a little obnoxious for you, how about the only drop-top of this list? You’ll hear the word Maybach in rap lyrics about as often as Rolls-Royce, which says a lot about its luxury (and price point).
The name has been around since 1909, but it became a household name in 2002 when the Maybach 57 and 62 came along as a genuine rival to Rolls-Royce. After that car went out of production, Maybach went quiet for a while before returning as Mercedes’ luxury branch, like AMG is for their performance cars.
Their job was to turn already luxurious Mercedes models like the S Class into something special, case in point, this twin-turbo V12-powered Maybach S650 Cabriolet. One of just 300 ever produced, its new cost was around £310,000. To put that into context and show just how high Maybach were shooting, an S63 AMG cost around £140,000 at the time!
2025 (75) | 29 Miles | £254,950
Ok, this is not the lap of luxury, but it's here for those of you who find all of the above a bit boring. Those of you who care more for a bit of fun on the commute than you do silence and a massage. I'd say those of you without seats, but the latest 992.2 GT3 now comes with a no-cost rear seat option, which this Touring has!
It's a manual for maximum enjoyment, although admittedly not maximum traffic temperament, but a big saying of Supercar Driver is "Life's too short to drive boring cars", so that's why a track focused Porsche with a manual 'box, motorsport engine and carbon bucket seats makes it onto our list of ultimate dailies, so be a hero and daily drive a GT3!
