Land Rover Range Rover, Range Rover Sport Add Turbodiesel V-6 Engines - Automobile
The Land Rover models adding diesels are the expensive Range Rover and Range Rover Sport. Horsepower sits at 254 for the Td6. The company quotes a 0-60 mph time of 7. 1 seconds for the smaller Range Rover Sport (7. 4 seconds for the full-size Range Rover) with the diesel engine -- less than 0. 5 seconds behind their gas V-6 counterparts. fuel economy is the big story with the Td6. Land Rover’s estimates peg both the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport equipped with the diesel at 22 mpg city and 28 mpg highway. Compare that with 17/23 mpg for the supercharged V-6 and 13/19 for the supercharged V-8. As a result, the Range Rover Td6 models feature a bladder-busting 658-mile range. As on the two gasoline engines, the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport will use an eight-speed ZF automatic transmission, and will boast tow ratings of 7,716 pounds. With the success of both the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport in the market place, we’ll see how the diesel models fare. Land Rover is already on a roll, with worldwide sales up 9 percent in 2014. Given that dealers are having trouble keeping Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models in stock, we wonder if the addition of diesel engines to the U. S. market is more to... Source: www.automobilemag.com
