2015 Land Rover Range Rover Sport V8 Supercharged Update 1 - Motor Trend
When I tested a Porsche 928 S4 almost 30 years ago, I was fascinated to read in the owner’s manual that the car was available with a factory-fit tow bar. The mere idea of hooking a trailer to a 165-mph supercar seemed utterly preposterous, but the fact you could order a Porsche with a tow bar — and a roof rack, too — made it deliciously desirable. Mindful of the speed limit for vehicles towing trailers on the interstate, I set the radar cruise control to 60 mph, picked a playlist off the iPod, and settled back in the seat for one of my slowest ever trips to the Bay Area. Apart from the rattling of the tow hitch on L. A. ’s notoriously lumpy freeways — and the giant U-Haul logo squirming in the rearview mirror — the trailer didn’t dent the Range Rover’s effortless cruising capability. In 1987 the Porsche’s 0-60-mph time of 5. 5 seconds and 13. 9-second quarter mile marked it as one of the quickest production cars in the world. In 2015, however, those numbers are nowhere near the pointy end of the muscle-SUV pack: The Range Rover Sport takes just 4. 4 seconds for the 0-60 sprint, and 12. 9 seconds for the quarter mile. Source: www.motortrend.com
