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Range Rover Sport SVR Dynamic Development
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Range Rover Sport SVR Dynamic Development
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Range Rover Sport SVR: first ride in new 542bhp super-SUV
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Teste - Range Rover Sport SVR - Autocar
JLR’s first ‘special vehicle’ is big on charm, pace, capability and driver engagement. Expertly judged and executed
JLR’s first ‘special vehicle’ is big on charm, pace, capability and driver engagement. Expertly judged and executed
What is it?:
The Range Rover Sport SVR isn’t the fastest SUV the world has ever known - definitely not as far as Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times are concerned. It is, in fact, a much more rare, special and interesting car than that: a 2.3-tonne, 542bhp performance behemoth that knows a certain pragmatism, moderation and delicacy – and, rarer still, even possesses a bit of soul.
Back in July last year, Gaydon whetted the public appetite for this car by laying claim to the ‘Ring lap record for ‘performance SUVs’, set at 8min 14sec. Like any such lap time beginning with an eight, it immediately looked vulnerable.
Sure enough, come the Detroit motor show in January, Porsche duly let on that its new Cayenne Turbo S had smashed that marker, apparently going under the eight-minute barrier in the process. A good thing for the bods at JLR, then, that Nordschleife laptimes for ‘performance SUVs’ are to be taken about as seriously as a steeplechase world record for hammer throwers.
The SVR is much more interesting for being the first series-production offering from Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Operations department. The ‘SV’ in its model suffix stands for 'Special Vehicles' - one of four divisions of the new JLR offshoot that exists to design, engineer and in some case even part-build high-performance versions of Jaguar and Land Rover models.
This Range Rover Sport, then, is an early taster of the kind of performance machines we can expect Gaydon to put up against Mercedes-AMGs, BMW M cars and Audi RSs in years to come. Jaguars or Land Rovers, all SVRs will be four-wheel drive, they say, and all will be geared towards usability as well as big-hitting speed.
What's it like?:
Its creators call the SVR a supercharged V8 model “plus 10%” - on price, power, speed and driver focus. On the last of those considerations, I’d argue that "plus 10%" undersells the car – but nonetheless it positions it in a way that current Range Sport owners will instinctively understand.
The biggest single mechanical upgrade the SVR gets is the burbling, irrepressible 542bhp 5.0-litre V8 engine from Jaguar’s old XKR-S and the current XFR-S and F-Type R Coupé. Otherwise it’s mostly reprogramming and retuning that accounts for the car’s extra sporting edge. The suspension settings have been uprated, but the hardware – air springs, adaptive dampers and an active anti-roll cancellation system – is broadly the same as that fitted to the ordinary Range Sport.
Standard wheels are 21in alloys with Land Rover’s usual ‘M&S’ tyres; 22s wrapped in Continental ContiSport Contact performance road tyres are optional, adding slightly to the car’s track widths and therefore calling for plastic wheel arch spats to be fitted to the metalwork.
There’s extra brake cooling designed in, but the steel brake discs and six-pot calipers are the same as you’ll find on other eight-cylinder Range Sports. Meanwhile, the biggest visual identifiers of the car are the yawning air ducts of the deeper front valance, together with the extended roof spoiler and the quad exhaust pipes at the rear.
The cabin has a few welcome notes of added purposefulness but, mindful of the luxury and everyday capability that Range Rover Sport owners will demand, Land Rover hasn’t changed or chucked out too much. New sports seats feature up front; they are a bit short-backed for this tester’s preference but otherwise look and feel great.
In the rear, the optional third row has been deleted, while extra bolstering has been added to the outer chairs of the second-row bench. The upshot is, while there is a third seatbelt back there, the SVR is really only a four-seater. In other respects, the car remains more generously proportioned and practical than you’re ever likely to need. It’s still a Range Rover, after all.
Clambering up into the ‘command’ driving position of the car instantly sets it apart from its lower-slung German competition, and starting the engine fills the cabin – and much of the surrounding countryside – with V8 exhaust warble.
Having done both, you’re aware straight away that the car you're about to drive makes only those concessions to the familiar sporting ideals of lightness, lowness and compactness that a true Range Rover can comfortably make. And before too long, you’ll be blissfully at ease with that compromise.
Even by fast SUV standards, this is a big car: wide, tall and particularly heavy. Land Rover’s dynamic masterstroke with its big 4x4s has long been to decline to hide that bulk, and that approach continues with the SVR.
Slick, direct, manageable but weighty, the car’s steering feels trustworthy, consistent and deliciously natural. It tallies perfectly with substantial pedal weights and a ride that feels slightly stiff-legged and wooden at low speeds and over bad surfaces but softens up beautifully as you pour on the pace.
However theatrical the SVR’s engine sounds (you can choose from two settings: noisy or plain sociopathic), the car doesn’t feel quite as quick in outright terms as certain rivals. But then it doesn’t need to. Because next to the somewhat Machiavellian machines it’s up against, the SVR’s performance feels so rich, crisp and flexible as to be defined more by quality of delivery than quantity.
There is effusive performance character in every upshift and a rousing sense of occasion about every redline foray. Better still, when you’re not in the mood, the Range Rover Sport SVR is supremely easy to drive.
The biggest surprise of all is how much more nimble and engaging the SVR’s handling is than a normal Range Sport's – and how slight the dynamic price is to be paid. Apart from the aforementioned firmness at town speeds, the SVR permits enough body movement to preserve excellent rolling comfort, but it also maintains a flat and level cabin and tackles direction changes with a sweetness you simply wouldn’t credit.
The car’s astute balance of grip and remarkable cornering poise makes it seem half a tonne lighter in long, open, well-sighted bends. The rear axle is even alive to your attempts to involve it in the steering process.
Should I buy one?:
You should – particularly if you’ve driven fast SUVs in the past and been turned off by them.
Perhaps by being a bit conservative and thinking clearly about what the segment lacks, Land Rover and Special Operations have hit on a winning recipe for this car, which may not be as visceral, uncompromising or fast around a certain circuit as a Porsche Cayenne but feels all the better for it.
The Range Rover Sport SVR may even have enough charm to register as the market’s first truly likeable example of its breed. And that makes it a cleverer conception than I suspect even Land Rover may realise.
Range Rover Sport SVR
Price £93,450; Engine V8, 5000cc, supercharged, petrol; Power 542bhp at 6000-6500rpm; Torque 502lb ft at 2500-5500rpm; Gearbox 8-spd automatic; Kerb weight 2335kg; Top speed 162mph (limited); 0-62mph 4.7sec; Economy 22.1mpg (combined); CO2/tax band 298g/km, 35%
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Autohoje - Range Rover Sport HST tem 380 cv - Salão de Nova Iorque 2015
A Land Rover anunciou uma nova versão do SUV, que estreará no Salão de Nova Iorque da próxima semana.
O novo Range Rover Sport HST, que se posicionará abaixo do Range Rover Sport SVR, estreará no Salão de Nova Iorque, nos EUA, na próxima semana. Esta versão, que estará disponível para encomenda a partir de abril (e com as primeiras entregas agendadas para o final do verão), conta com mais 40 cv debitados do motor V6 3.0 Supercharged, passando agora a debitar 380 cv – tal como sucede com na versão F-Type S. Com a entrada em vigor das normas ambientais Euro 6 este ano, o V8 5.0 Supercharged (o bloco AJ-V8 é produzido desde 1996) deverá deixar de ser o topo da gama dos motores da Jaguar Land Rover.
Esta versão HST conta com detalhes exteriores específicos, nomeadamente faróis escurecidos à frente e atrás, pormenores em preto brilhante no capot, entradas de ar e contornos dos faróis de nevoeiro. Tem ainda o lettering “HST”. O tejadilho é pintado de série em tons contrastantes preto Santorini. Há ainda um novo spoilertraseiro e jantes específicas em cinzento Satin de 21 polegadas (as de 22 polegadas Stealth são opcionais) com pinças de travões vermelhas e travões mais potentes. Os engenheiros da Land Rover efetuaram afinações no chassis, para diminuir o rolamento da carroçaria. O sistema Terrain Response conta com uma afinação especial, com o modo Dynamic que otimiza a suspensão (para um amortecimento mais firme), a resposta do motor e a direção eletricamente assistida. No interior, há revestimentos em pele Oxford de dois tons, forro das portas e do tejadilho, além da consola central em castanho, patilhas do volante comacabamento exclusivo Noble e logótipos HST. Há ainda aplicações em alumínio, pedais desportivos e novas combinações de cores nos revestimentos em couro.
As versões HST são de edição limitada. Ainda não há preços nem detalhes acerca da sua produção. Deverá estar disponível apenas nos EUA, China, Rússia e Médio Oriente. Entretanto, a Land Rover anunciou que, juntamente com este HST, apresentará em Nova Iorque um conjunto de alterações no ano modelo de 2016 do Range Rover Sport. Estas incluirão, por exemplo, entre os opcionais, um sistema de abertura por gestos da tampa da mala e o Automatic Access Height.
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Brutal, esse SVR tuga!
