Gadgetory

this is the new Land Rover Range Rover Sport SVR what happened when the guys that Landrover get tired of watching the Jaguar engineers have all the fun of the Nurburgring and build a sports car of their own with its five liter supercharged v8 engine this is the fastest Land Rover ever built top speed of 162 miles per hour and it hits zero to 62 miles per hour in just 4.2 seconds now underneath all of that we've got Land Rovers excellent four-wheel-drive system which features a new dynamic setting for on-road handling fuel economy is terrible here you're looking at about 19 miles per gallon at best on the highway about 15 point 4 on average now it's interesting here is that the right high end suspension appeared to be unchanged from other Range Rover Sport models we still sit pretty high up off the ground which sort of diminishes the feeling of speed and invalidates the extra 40 some-odd horsepower but for the extra money you're also getting an svr body kit that looks a lot more aggressive absolutely massive Brembo brakes that bring this thing to a stop on a dime and a revision to its 8-speed transmission that helped it shift up the 40% faster oh yeah you also get a button that activates the sport exhaust something similar to what we've seen on Jaguars that makes this thing a lot louder now the bass SVR starts at about one hundred and eleven thousand dollars that's significantly more expensive than about the 80 thousand dollars you spend for a Range Rover supercharged we've got a bunch of options including carbon fiber trim adaptive cruise control and this $1,800 X toriel blue paint that brings us to an as-tested price of one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars yes you'd have to be absolutely nuts to pay this price tag but the kind of person interested in this sort of car is already there