First Drive: Land Rover Range Rover Sport 5.0 V8 S/C SVR 5dr Auto - Top Gear
It’s the Range Rover Sport SVR. As is the modern way, Land Rover has teased us mercilessly with the promise of its fastest, most powerful car ever. The RRS SVR made lots of lovely old cars look a bit crusty at the Goodwood FOS last year, and again a few months later at Pebble Beach. That teaser video for the RRS SVR made a Spitfire sound like an Austin 1100 on three cylinders. Absorb the following information for now: it costs £93,450, has a 5. 0-litre supercharged V8 that pumps out just shy of 550bhp, 502 torques, and despite its size and weight can bodyslam to 60mph in a faintly worrying 4. 5 seconds and onto a top... And although we’re glad we weren’t actually in the Sport SVR when the stopwatch was running, you’ve got to admit a Nürburgring lap time of 8min 14sec is good going. This is the first product to emerge from JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations division, whose 20,000 square foot HQ is now up and running on the site of the old Peugeot factory on the outskirts of Coventry. Fair to say that SVO’s concoctions are likely to be a bit saucier than the Pug 309 diesels that used to pop off the line back in the day. We’re still a bit non-plussed about exactly where SVR sits in the overall JLR product matrix - for example, will there be a Jaguar XE R SVR. Source: www.topgear.com
