Land Rover Range Rover Sport

The first new Range Rover Sport in nine years has arrived, with engines and technology that place it right up with the flagship Range Rover.

Forget the model name that is as long as your arm and concentrate on the all-new, smooth-as-silk inline six-cylinder diesel engine.

New Ingenium inline-six diesel sharpens the appeal of the Sport, but it is still feeling old. We drive the new car in the UK.

The phrase ‘hybrid Range Rover’ certainly gets people’s attention, but does the pricey SUV do enough to keep it?

The first shipment of petrol-powered examples of the new Range Rover Sport luxury SUV are now more than a year behind schedule.

The successor to the Range Rover Sport SVR performance SUV has adopted high-output BMW V8 power to go with its new name.

The turbocharged petrol engines could catch fire due to a manufacturing defect.

The high-performance version of the new Range Rover Sport SUV is in line for a new name – and a twin-turbo German heart transplant.

Keen on minimising your fuel bill while simultaneously helping the planet? There’s a multitude of options on the market, and more to come!

Being green comes at a cost in Range Rover's diesel-electric behemoth.

My first time hitting the road in the driver seat of the Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE was appropriately a bit of an adventure. I was handed the keys at the end of our luxury SUV comparison shoot on a Friday afternoon, and the storm clouds were rolling in.

My wife has always admired the 'Rangy' and long harboured a desire to own one or, more specifically, to drive one daily.Owner: Al-Pal

i have to say that the SVR is one of the most incredible pieces of machinery. No only is it the most powerful Ranger Rover ever, it somehow manages to transform all the power and pace into a normal day-to-day car. I bought this SVR as a gift for my wife for our anniversary. so far and to this very day not one thing has come up that has caused us to raise a eyebrow. With me already a huge fan of "super suv's" I decided that something special should be added to the family. with two kids (1 & 3) it is very fun and practical for going out doors on a Saturday. It lets you venture out far and beyond what other SUV's like the X6, Q7, and ML can do. when you are not on the track, you can change every setting so that it is as practical to use every day as a corolla. its also comfortable and has class-leading suspension too, meaning that bubs doesn't get thrown around when we go bush for a epic journey. And then there's the trip home: everyones asleep, and the road is empty. Put the crusie control on at 160kph (just have that radar detector on;-) and it is almost heaven on earth. when I was looking at purchasing the SVR ( the wife didn't know until I gave her the keys) I seriously considered the rivals and the most important thing: thirst. if you have one of these high performance SUV's there will be stops! The Porsche Cayenne Turbo, BMW X5M, Audi SQ5 TDI, and the Merc-Benz ML63 AMG were all very close competitors...I actually test drove every single one of them, and by this time my wife was getting a little suspicious of when I went out during the day. But we got the result. and after driving the other epics, you get a real feeling of everything that Range Rover has done to make this the most epic, and enjoyable Rangie yet. But for me it's back to work tomorrow....after all it is my wifes SVR.......

The brief was to find a luxury SUV that would pull a 3 tonne boat, cruise round Australia and be off-road capable enough to explore the forest tracks. So it was either the Cayenne, the X5 or the Sport. Tried them all and in the end bought the Rangie. It isn't as amazing to drive as the Cayenne, probably the most driveable SUV that I have ever tried, and the technology isn't as clever as the X5. But it has style, panache and oodles of under-stated luxury and as soon as I sat in it, I had to have one. It's proven to be a wonderful cruiser - smooth, quiet, refined and with all the technology you need to make a road trip a real holiday - adaptive cruise control, panoramic sunroof, blind spot monitoring and the most amazing 19 speaker sound system. The seats are super comfy and the deisel and transmission super-smooth. It feels really up-together to drive and is great fun on Victoria's country roads. It is docile and manoeuvreable around town with nicely weighted steering and good visibility. So, overall impressions. The technology leaves something to be desired. What the infotainment system does is brilliant but how it does it is clunky and falls short of the BMW. It is brilliantly driveable and although not as tight and sporty as the Cayenne, it is a smoother ride. The 3 litre twin turbo isn't quite as quick as either the Cayenne or the X5 equivalents but with 0-100kph in 7.2, it is quick enough for me and will be for most people. The quality of build is wonderful and is at least as good as it's competition. Somehow though it has a presence, a wow factor that the other two just don't have. Whilst there are SUVs that do some things better than the Sport, I would be surprised if any of them do so many things as well.