NEW Range Rover Sport SV Review: Should The Lambo Urus Be Worried? | 4K

Some things in life go perfectly with fish and chips, salt and pepper, high performance cars on race tracks, but there are also some things that obviously

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n't go together at all. cereal, the possibilities of contradictory and contradictory combinations extend to the world of cars and include the new Range Rover Sport SV, a 185,000 hyp SUV that pushes the improbable narrative that a car can successfully combine extreme robustness, extreme comfort and extreme speed. This latest version of Land Rover they think they've cracked it and in fact they are so sure that this is a Range Rover that deserves the word

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in the name that they brought us to the launch of the car in Poro a bloody Formula 1 circuit.

It

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n't make sense, but listen to what drives you, literally. Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations has ditched the old Sport svr's tried and trusted 5L supercharged V8 and given the new SV a 4.4L twin-turbo V8 making 635 PS and 750 NTM of torque and no needless to say it's explosive, that engine is a real thug, it's the same one you get in the bmw m5cs so you know it doesn't do 62, 3.8 seconds flat out, 180mph, those numbers aren't quite there . as impressive as what you find in a Lamborghini us Pro fante or an ason Martin dbx 707, but trust me, this thing is dragging us, it's so fast it even has an SV mode, so there's a little button on the bottom of the steering wheel which when pressed sets the suspension, steering, throttle and gearbox for absolute fury and probably the best thing about this is that it makes the paddles behind the steering wheel turn red, that's a really cool touch so It's fast and straight, what happens when?

You throw it into a corner, my god, damn hell, it's a car that fights with its own mass, that little jump and rollback of the steering wheel happens every time you take a corner too tight with the traction control on and the ESP in track mode or, better yet, activated. completely, the car chassis is free play and it feels a little less like you're riding a bull that wants nothing more than to kill, you tell the computers to have a day off and relax and things become much more fun, I mean, you have To respect that, it's a huge, heavy SUV, but it's actually pretty fun to work overtime to keep the SV upright.

It's a new 6D suspension system apparently inspired by another great British McLaren. It still has air springs, but these are kept under control by adaptive dampers that are connected hydraulically. They work by transferring fluid inside the dampers to the sides that need it most. The

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y SV doesn't go completely flat but the body control is impressive for its size the fact that it likes a wheel in the air like the best hot hatchbacks It seems deeply wrong, but also very true, that the suspension actually works so well that they have been able to eliminate traditional stabilizer bars.

The standard sporty Range Rover stays fairly flat in corners, but this car's hydraulic system seems to react differently. a little faster, they actually send 4000 newm of force to the suspension to help you resist every little dive, pitch and roll movement, and we give them credit because it really works. I'm not going to lie, I was hoping it would fall off completely. but it stays incredibly flat through the corners, we have a long right hand bend that leads to the main straight. What are you going to do here? Will it calm down? Look, it's planted absolutely planted.

That's ridiculous. You get incredible grip from your tires. the sporty SV can be fitted with Pilot Sport all-terrain tires or melin Pilot Sport five developed specifically for this car with the standard rubber it will pull 1.1 G in the corners with the five closer to sports car territory 1.2, what kind of numbers can we ? at the end of the main straight we are doing 230 hard on the brakes oh my god yes do you know how the brakes work? I actually brake a little earlier than I thought I needed because I just wasn't expecting this. It's not easy to stop, but it does and then there's the steering, which is the quickest it's ever been in a Range Rover.

In fact, they've increased the rack speed from 17.5 to 1 to 13.6 to 1 and when you combine that with rear steering, it really works. when turning into corners let the gearbox know, they've also recalibrated it so that every gear change is just blunt, pull the right paddle it just clicks, it's a nice touch obviously no matter how much tech you throw at it Range Rover Sport SV. He still has to fight the biggest enemy in the world of sports cars. Wait, the standard sports car tips the scales at a minimum of 2360kg, but with the SV they've done everything they can to reduce that, in total they've dropped the weight by a staggering 76kg over the standard Range Rover Sport and a much of that is courtesy of these incredible lightweight all-carbon wheels.

These are the largest 23 production carbon wheels you will find in the world and they actually save 9kg per bend for a total of 36kg, interestingly they are made up of 200 separate individual components linked together and inside the wheels have a special ceramic coating to prevent them from melting when they are placed next to these huge brakes and they are very, very huge what you are looking at there is a set of 440mm brake discs that are over 17 inches and they are attached to the calipers Largest brakes ever fitted to a Range Rover. These are eight piston calipers and they are absolutely huge.

By the way, a set of steel discs, but I recommend that you go for the carbon ceramic ones, not only are they super effective but they also save a total of 34 kg, the 6D suspension system saves 8 kg compared to a system electronic anti-roll and there are Obviously, there are also a

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of standard-fit carbon fiber body parts, including a carbon bonnet, carbon badges, carbon rear seats and Ultra Light fabrics that weigh less than leather. It's not a Lotus, but every little bit helps, plus Land Rover didn't want the sporty SV to be one too. comfortable for those who wish to use it in its natural habitat the road is really nice here.

I was a little

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that it would be a little tiring, but there's no worry with that at all. The car uses a multi-valve shock absorber setup. which controls not only the compression but also the rebound of the car and when you drive in a straight line it deactivates the anti-roll stabilization which means that it moves quite organically over road imperfections although it is a little more daring than a standard Range Rover Sport , it's still a car you can use almost every day, it feels like a luxury and is much better than its rivals with its interior featuring a great looking dashboard, well-integrated screens and decent materials.

It's available with Windsor leather - they'll kill as many cows as you want - but as standard, the SV uses a special 3D Ultra knit fabric that's designed to make you feel a little better about the creation's environmental impact while you're sitting in those new ones. Body and Soul vegan seats developed. These Body and Soul seats are also fascinating, so the car comes with a really good Meridian audio system with 29 speakers and 1,430 WS output. The seats also have four individual micro speakers or transducers built into the backrests and the The idea behind this is that they vibrate to the beat of the music so you can feel the tracks you are playing, they sound really good and Land Rover has also incorporated a small special trick called wellness mode that you can select from a bunch of settings including calm, serene, cool, revitalize, etc. and plays personalized music with specific vibrations that are designed to affect your mental and physiological well-being and improve your heart rate variability, which is designed to make you feel I don't know, the least angry problem is All of these tracks sound terrible and the only thing they do It's bothering me.

What doesn't bother me is that the 4.4L V8 engine is an absolute Peach. Sure the previous 5L supercharged V8 used by Land Rover was a dream engine and sounded incredible, but this. What's not far behind, you know, when you knock it down, a couple of Gears put it in SV mode and lower it, and the noise it makes now improves my mental and physiological well-being, believe me, I'll tell you what's great too. The SV is the first Range Rover to include launch control and I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't try it, so let's stop, okay, I'm in SV mode, gearboxes in sport mode, put the brake on the launch pedal active boom yes, it goes well, but not as well as some of its rivals in my hands with a passenger and some equipment in the back, managed not to reach 62 in 4 seconds, dead at 2/10 of the official figure that did in the quarter. mile in 12 seconds, a e

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performante or a dbx 707 would probably leave it for dead and those rivals might also make more sense for people who want to stand out from the crowd if they're interested in showing the world they're driving a 170. a 180,000 SUV, then the bottom line is that even in this attractive matte carbon bronze color, most people simply won't notice.

I tell you, who will notice that you are driving 170,000 Range Rover Sport SV? Insurance companies and thieves, let's talk. About thieves, first of all, Range Rovers are very desirable cars and they are also very common, so they are a target. You've probably seen on the news that Range Rovers are often among the most stolen cars in the UK, but luckily Land Rover has invested. Over 10 million to make sure these things don't get stolen so easily. One of the things I came up with is a new ultra wideband key and what this does is the car is now immune to the relay attack method where someone pulls into the driveway and clones your key from the inside from your home and you don't even need to store it in a Faraday bag.

The car is also not susceptible to the OBD2 method where someone breaks in, puts a dongle in your OBD2 port and clones a new key, it all sounds great, the other good news is that you can take your old Range Rover to a Land Rover dealership and they will They will update with the new security systems so that your car is now less likely to be stolen since According to the updates, less than 0.07% of Range Rovers sold have been stolen, but the downside is that the car is now super paranoid and the alarm goes off all the time.

I'll demonstrate it and see if it happens but yeah even if you have the key for yourself sometimes the alarm still sounds super paranoid who else is going to be paranoid insurance companies who bought a Range Rover Sport especially one that costs almost 200 Grand Land Rover tries to help by providing insurance for their own clients at more reasonable rates, but even they won't make sure SV sport is too expensive, instead they will refer you to a specialist broker, which feels a bit ridiculous. By searching for third party quotes I managed to find premiums between £3,800 and closer to £6 Grand.

At the top end, not far from what you'd pay to insure a Ferrari SF90, if you can get over the fact that the Range Rover Sport SV is an entertaining and satisfying car, in many ways it shouldn't exist and, frankly, it shouldn't work, and yet So it does, it's a fun car to drive

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over the sporty SV. We're used to seeing vehicles that are fast in a straight line, we used to see cars that are fast in corners or vehicles that can tackle off-roading or vehicles that are luxurious, but it's very rare to find a vehicle that doesn't just do those things together in a only package, but also do them all incredibly well, whether it's as good as its rivals, the gems are still available, you'd have to try them consecutively to find them.

I realize how good it actually is, but I think the great thing about this car is that it puts a big smile on your face, it's a lot of fun to drive, it does the unexpected and there's something really cool about it that people says large, heavy SUVs. They are stupid and yes, they are on paper, they don't make sense like pineapple on pizza or laughing so hard you cry, but sometimes there is beauty in that contrast, there is a surge of satisfaction in defying logic and achieving against all odds and yes, by experiencing a Range Rover.

That's really sporty, it won't be for everyone, but to me this is a contradiction that somehow still makes sense.