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There’s something important missing from this Range Rover Sport. Two things, actually. Can you spot them? It’s a lot easier than finding the changes on that ‘new’ Seat Leon, honest.
The rear doors. That’s what’s missing. Both of them. Yes, this is a three-door Range Rover Sport, courtesy of UK tuning firm ARK ReDesign.
Land Rover has been hinting towards a sporty – in the relative sense, obviously – three-door for a while now (remember the Range Stormer and LRX concepts?), but ARK has gone ahead and beaten them to it.
It won’t get any more power than the stock Range Rover Sport – though a 385bhp supercharged V8 is probably sufficient for most of your everyday needs – but ARK promises ‘the option to individually tailor a vehicle to meet any specific requirements’.
So if you want your RRS wrapped in tapir skin and fitted with the sound system from Creamfields, ARK will happily oblige. Probably.
We can’t decide whether a coupe’d Rangey is (a) idiotic or (b) strangely cool. So we’re leaving it up to you to decide. Crank up those comment-box thingies below. They might actually be working by now.
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Skornogr4phy commented on this article
at 02:57 pm on 10 February 2009
Very cool. I loves it.
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slayaz commented on this article
at 04:00 pm on 10 February 2009
The wheels are waaaaay too small. Anyway, looks even more like a drug dealer/footballers car now.
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catersam commented on this article
at 04:20 pm on 10 February 2009
Where is the point? It is not sporty, not good enough off road, and it is square and ugly. I truly do not understand the popularity this car gets.
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Dr.Stig commented on this article
at 05:03 pm on 10 February 2009
Remember me about the conversions that West Coast Customs in the united states made to a Dodge Charger, it's a trend right now I suppose... And a Land Rover It's a Land Rover, plainly fantasticly brilliant, somehow the Sport it's a bit "gangsta", "dealer" "footballer" anything you like, but if you need a well made high end non axis (germany, Japan) SUV, this is the best choice...
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OptimusChrist commented on this article
at 05:24 pm on 10 February 2009
It kind of reminds me of a scaled-up metro... So yeah it does look wrong and this car has status as a footballers car...
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