Gadgetory

welcome to the bonds defender the Range Rover Sport SVR and the unicorn ish Jaguar CX 75 hybrid hyper car all three of them are in the new Bond film Spectre and they've been prepped by Jaguar Land Rovers very own special vehicle ops and today for a very limited amount of time I have the King's first the defender Bigfoot it's like a defender but bigger for example this one has 37 inch tires a 185 brake horsepower tuned engine and so much more that it's worth doing a big screen overlay thing with all the details so even though I've only got it for a short amount of time and I can only drive it at 30 miles an hour lest it get damaged and jag your Land Rover find me in my sleep and murder me it's quite a wonderful thing everything's very familiar it does feel like a defender which means it's chunky it's big you can grab everything everything feels quite solid there are a few differences this has a bit more power than a standard carve-out 180 horsepower thanks to a jazzy new turbo there's ropes over the bonnet it's got its giant wheels which don't off make a racket and they do make the ride on tarmac a bit bumpy but don't say snow I imagine they'd be ideal and it looks there's a cage in the back there's a cage on the outside and there's a thing I absolutely love it our only problem is not only is the defender ending its life you can't buy one anymore you almost certainly can't buy one of these unless you turn up to the SVO guys with a lot of money and a very big smile on your face batting your eyelids you're probably not likely to be able to get your mitts on one which is a crying shame however this is only the start of jlr specter offerings because there's a couple more to play with and both have very big very silly engines that I'll probably also only be able to drive at 30 miles an hour but still it's enough if the Bigfoot wasn't enough how's about this the Range Rover Sport SVR it's 5 liter supercharged v8 engine produces 550 horses and kicks this thing from nought to 62 in less than five seconds this is the fastest production Range Rover ever built and because it was built in the first place by the SVO guys they didn't really do much to get it bond ready apart from some tires and the brightest lights known to man as you can probably see now I'm not allowed to drive this particular car over 30 40 miles an hour but I have driven one of these before and it's it's otherworldly because it's massive and it's heavy but it moves unlike something this size really should it's unbelievably fast nought to 60 happens in less than five seconds its top speed somewhere north of 160 miles an hour it sounds absolutely incredible you never see an SUV making that kind of noise it just sounds dirty it sounds a bit like a NASCAR which as far as I'm concerned is a brilliant thing because you always see cars like there's going quite quickly but you never really get to hear them because it's not part of the luxury experience and lifestyle which tends to go hand-in-hand with them but thanks to the magic of SVO and the fact I think they're all secretly hooligans they managed to make it sound like the Chinese New Year which is brilliant it corners brilliantly the brakes work and then some they've been specially modified to make sure this thing does stop immensely well and it handles beautifully but at the same time it's very comfortable when you want it to be quiet it will be and when you want it to be a hooligan it'll be that as well it is basically the every car in the spec we have it in we've got bigger wheels and tires lots of lights and proper stealth blackout it's really cool it's the kind of thing you could drive through anywhere and unless you had the noise button on so it was spitting out all manner of dirty dirty angry noise no one would really notice it would be like a big Range Rover shaped shadow squirreling through the background like this this is good fun finally the Jaguar CX 75 the car that would have been up there with the Ferrari laferrari McLaren p1 and Porsche 918 if it wasn't killed in his normal trim the one we have it's a hybrid petrol electric setup with nearly 1,000 brake horsepower now this and one of the other hero cars from the film were actually repainted versions of the prototypes of what could have been Jaguars halo hyper car I've driven this exact car before this is prototype number four when I add it it was silver and it made me do this race five more 675 s were made for the film except they were cars made to look like this with well the famous 5 liter supercharged v8 with 550 horsepower in it now that's an engine we know and love very very dearly it is epic that's not what I've got today I have the full fat hybrid hyper car the car that could have been I've been told there's been a lot of interest in it since Jaguar started punting this around with all the publicity for Spectre now if you want a bit more of a detail thing of what it's like to drive there is our full film on the 675 but this is what a 30 mile an hour stint in a proper jag 675 hybrid hyper car is like as you can no doubt hear it's quite noisy but that's one point six liters of power making lots and lots of noise kicks out about 500 horsepower with all the gubbins on it and then there's the electric stuff that will push this thing into the distance at a scary scary race of not it is mammoth Leigh quick up to 30 of course it can go faster I've done it I did 180 990 in one of these which still remains the fastest I've ever driven Jaggi was chief test driver Mike cross took me out in one and we did a shade over 200 even though the speedo only went to 198 why well because they never thought they'd build a car that would do more than that who can blame them it's a silly speed the gearbox really doesn't like going at low speed and it's it's quite aggressive so if we change down from fourth to third wow there's a bit of a jolt and when you change up again there we go nice big proper proper job the steering feels nice and light and the visibility oddly is really good for a hyper car you can see a little bit out the back of mostly got spoiler at the moment the wing mirrors provide plenty of this and the interior itself is very pleasant I love the way it looks it's a nice and carbon fiber you could tell this bits of jag everywhere I recognized that centre console from an f-type and those dials from the XE and those buttons from the f-type but that doesn't matter because this was never supposed to be a car for the public this was going to be another stage in this cars evolution I'll tell you what it's a crying shame they didn't build it because I bet you any money they'd sell out like hotcakes now full sure this thing sounds and feels incredible but at low speed if the gearbox was a little less angry well it actually would be quite comfy round town the ride isn't too bad it's lacking a bit of NVH and sound deadening so you can hear stones everything bouncing round outside it but again it's a prototype and you've got to forgive it for that this thing even if 30 miles an hour feels as special as it looks this is a truly wonderful experience today I am a very very lucky boy and I cannot wait to see what this thing does inspect it I really can't so there we have it a brief stint with the three bond bodied cars from the short time I've had with them they're all pretty good but let's not forget what they're going up against the aston martin db10 a v8 powered custom-built supercar just for bond himself I wonder how they'll fare you