Gadgetory

some cars make sense a small light to see so we'll have lots of power and rear drive for example a saloon will either go super diesel or silky smooth petrol have lots of space and be very comfortable an SUV though well that can be all number of things the range rover sport for example works wonderfully with a diesel engine some people would argue you don't need anything more or there's a beautiful 500 horsepower supercharged v8 but Jaguar Land Rovers special vehicle ops didn't think either of those were really quite up to snuff so it came up with this the SVR a 542 brake horse about 502 pound foot monster utility vehicle SVO Jaguar Land Rovers new company proof skunk works is there to churn out all manner of cars SVR cars will be the performance motors svx is all about off-road prowess and SV autobiography motors are for people who like a little bit more luxury in their lives cars with an svr verge all have four main attributes the four-wheel drive they have better arrow less weight and more power and because this is s vioz first full production car it's something of a shop window for them and the stats this thing has well they're pretty impressive nor 262 takes 4.7 seconds in its top speed is over 160 miles an hour that's quite fast especially considering this thing tips the scales at 2.3 tonnes and its shape doesn't really lend itself to going mega quickly but hang what's engineering for you right here's some of the particulars the rear brakes have special carbon cooling plates while the fronts are chilled by air intakes where the front fog lights live on the production car those intakes help cool the SVRs new engine it's the same one you'll find in a Jag f-type R one of my favorite cars ever but it needs more air to keep it from going bang the spoiler on the car's rear isn't decorative either it works to push the car through the air and aids downforce weight has been shaved off here and there too all in order to make it a cut above the rest aside from being a technically tweaked tank the new engine adds so much more to this car I mean the standard 5-litre supercharged range rover sport sounds pretty good quite raw and nasty for this this is something else it sounds like an f-type it has that same tone that makes me fall in love with the Jag it pops and bangs and it sounds angry and mean and well like it's going to eat the world but unlike the f-type in here there's room for people there's a few driving modes to play with all of the usual Land Rover toys to ensure you can climb a mountain of an afternoon should you choose to but you'll be spending most of your time in either normal or dynamic normal is this cars Dave today dropping the kids off at school going to work going to football practice mode and it makes it feel like a range rover sport which is a good thing a wonderful thing in fact the dynamic well dynamic turns the wick up by a factor of a million it completely transforms the car the steering gets heavier throttle response gets sharper gearbox angrier and everything becomes a lot more fun I think gathers pace and coming so I cried son right this is a really really heavy car it may be two and a half tons for God's sake yep it doesn't feel like a heavy car there's no effort involved in you can thread it through Ben's you know where the front wheels are you know what the cars doing you feel safe in its hands the ride as well as fantastic it's smooth you don't feel nasty lumps and bumps in the road the car just absorbs them even in its Porteous setting it's still smooth it's still a joy to drive it still easy you can sling it around the corner and arylene quite a bit not as much as a standard range rover sport I hasten to add but it doesn't feel like it's gonna fall over it doesn't feel unstable and you can really hurl it around you can hustle this thing that's some quite silly speeds the people at SVO they aren't just people who are employed to put different bits on a car and see what sticks their proper engineers these guys have come from the likes of Williams Formula One places like that they know how to make cars go very quickly it's been their entire lives so when I say this is the best possible example of a Range Rover Sport you're going to get this is the best possible example of a Range Rover Sport you're going to get the interior most of it is words it's what you're getting a range rover sport the materials are fantastic the touch points are lovely there is one exception that makes me a little bit hesitant about it and that's the seats I know they're there for a reason because this is the sporty car and their sporty seats but they are a bit tacky not a huge fan of those and the infotainment system remains rubbish it's hard to navigate it's complicated it's overly men you'd and it looks very very dated but I know that JLR has a new one because I've driven it in the discovery sport and the Jag XE that works really well and is really lovely so expect that to appear in these at some points in the future presumably when the facelifted the gearbox is an 8-speed auto and it's seamless it's smooth and it just I just weren't it works beautifully well look at the thing has been a touch polarizing because it looks like a range rover sport that's handsome aftermarket stuff done to it but I'll say this nothing is on this car that shouldn't be there there's a reason things look the way they do so the fog lights were taken out so the giant engine could be cool and yet it looks a bit odd but if that didn't happen the engine wouldn't get the cooling it needed and then bad things would happen and you don't want bad things to happen good when things go pop on a range rover things tend to get going expensive is it better than other stuff on the market I'll certainly give it a look if I were you I definitely definitely would because it's hilarious fun I don't know any other SUV that makes a noise quite like this big old dirty v8 slinging out anger and hatred on the road I like it a lot I like that it exists because it's proof that if you give some talented engineers time and the tools to work they can create something that's faster than Porsche handles in a manner best described as unnatural and still works as a car I don't like something else about it though and that's something that's no fault of the people who made it there will be some people who won't fall under this sweeping generalization but there are certainly going to be a few who will our buyer is going to understand just what went into making this car so brilliant will they get that this is the most impressive the most advanced version the range rover sport you can get now and will they understand why will they get the engineering that went into it will they appreciate it or will they simply see the most expensive car on the list and buy it just to show off not that there's anything wrong with being in the position to tick the box and by the toy but wouldn't it be nice if more people knew what went into their cars or maybe I'm being a bit of a curmudgeon buyers aside the Range Rover Sport SVR seems like an answer to a question that didn't really need asking can the Range Rover Sport go any faster the 500 horsepower VA is quick enough hell the diesel will do for most people but because someone did dare to ask that question we ended up with something pretty cool it's a Range Rover but with added anger