Range Rover Sport

Some cars suit the architecture, and above Budva the Range Rover Sport is one of them: tall, unhurried, and exactly what a hillside estate gate expects to open for. The driving position alone changes how the coast road feels; you watch the Riviera rather than the bumper in front.

It is happiest on the open sweeps and the gravel last-stretch to a villa, and perfectly willing in town as long as you give it hotel parking rather than old-town tetris.

It is the natural booking for a week spent above the coast rather than on it: the villas on the Budva hillsides, the estates around Sveti Stefan, the gravel approaches a low car dreads. The commanding driving position changes the whole drive, and the Riviera road feels different watched from up here. Give it the open sweeps and the hotel car park rather than the old-town lanes, and it is one of the most relaxing ways to spend a coastal week.

Like the G-Class, it is wide for the old quarters; the move is hotel parking in town and open road everywhere else.

Where it fits best: hillside villas above Budva, Lustica estate lanes.