08 April 2009 - 16:00
Rangey Sport goes 500bhp
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Fresh from a mid-life facelift, the new Range Rover
Sport is here. The big news is that it's got the supercharged 5.0-litre V8 from
the Jaguar XKR. Which means 503bhp - that's more power than a Cayenne Turbo -
and a sub-six-second 0-60mph time.
Oh, and it'll lap the Nurburgring in under nine minutes. Whether that's an
appropriate thing for a big SUV to be doing is quite another matter, but you
can't deny it's an impressive stat.
If you require a bit more social acceptability from your RRS, you can also have
it in 3.0-litre V6 turbodiesel flavour, as seen in the stunning Jag XF Diesel
S. It puts out 242bhp and, more significantly, a punchy 443lb ft of torque. It'll also manage just over 30mpg, some eight per cent better than the old 2.7-litre
V6 diesel, which developed a measly 188bhp. The Rangey Sport is still available
with the old 3.6-litre V8 diesel, but the one you really want is the V6.
The RRS has received a whole load of visual tweaks, too, with a narrow grille
and squarer headlights and taillights featuring something the LR designers call
‘a two-bar motif'. It looks sharp. It looks good.
On-road manners should be improved courtesy of a new continuously variable
damping system, active anti-roll bars and upgraded brakes.
LR assures us that ‘over 3,000' components have been revised on the Range Rover
Sport (a shiny penny to anyone who can name them all!), with the aim of
providing a clearer differentiation between the keep-it-on-the-road Sport and
the take-it-anywhere Range Rover, which has also been facelifted, along with
the Land Rover Discovery.
The big Range Rover gets a plusher interior and the same 5.0-litre V8 - but no
3.0-litre V6 diesel - while the Discovery 4 gets a detuned verson of the big V8
putting out 375bhp.
We'll see all the new Landies in the UK this summer. Prepare the spray-on mud.
Now watch Clarkson attempt to outrun a Challenger tank in the Range Rover Sport:
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Yes, unimaginative, but so are the 911 'facelifts'. Very impressive, round the ring in under 9mins? WOW! How have they done that?
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Yes, unimaginative, but so are the 911 'facelifts'. Very impressive, round the ring in under 9mins? WOW! How have they done that?
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Hey Everyone, Just to clear up things the new range rover that has 503bhp isnt faster than the porsche Cayenne Turbo. The porsche Cayenne Turbo does have 500bhp, howver you can get a TURBO S model which has 550bp!!! (therefore blitzing th range rover) and its 0-60 time is is 4.8 seconds so why hasnet the person who has writen the article aknowledged that??? Anyway cjeck it out if u dont believe me at: www.porsche.co.uk
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is the disco 4 petrol v8 available in the uk?
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is the disco 4 petrol v8 available in the uk?
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Wow that looks a lot better. But still the RR is better then the RRS in my eyes
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Yes, it looks nice (for a two-tonne heffer). But again I'm forced to ask: WHY? Who actually wants an SUV-come-limo that can lap the 'Ring in less than 9 minutes? What's the point?
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if u want 2 see the new disco its on this website :D http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=19713
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^ Thanks. They actually ALL look noticably better, although I think it's a bit of a stretch to call that a Discovery 4. More like a Discovery 3.5.
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It makes me happy that this car exists. Would rather have the proper RR though.
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Looking very swish, that is. I'm not really a huge fan of 4x4s but this thing is a bit of a doozy. And can't really gripe about the not-to-shabby 503bhp and eyebrow-raising performance stats either. I want one. I want one now.
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911 face lifts are not unimaginative this on the other hand is
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always liked the range rover especially the newer ones this one tops them all off!!
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I prefer the previous RRS. This one... doesn't look as good anymore.
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O may god its big and powerful......
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if this is more than 60k it is just ridiculous why have a 60k luxury car than has 500bhp?you are not going to race it: there much faster cars on the market of less than 60k
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The engine from Jag but still Cool. 5.0 L V8 Supercharged direct injection. Please don't buy the diesel engine version.
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nice car, keep it up rangies
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wow powerfuly interesting
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It looks pretty much the same as the last rangey sport, but that isnt realy a bad thing. this thing is gonna be fast. nurburgring less than 9 seconds? i wanna see this. but not as much as i wanna see the disco 4. land rover, pleez make a sport version of the discovery!!!!!! (big V8 like this rangey would be fun)
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Had my RRS TDV8 superchipped, 330bhp and a remarkable 640Lbs /Ft of torque, it was a missile and once the engine was "loose" at around 5k it returned 32mpg, and that is driving like I stole it.
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Mikeado commented on this article
09 April 2009
All they've done is made the grilles and taillights bigger! What an unimaginative facelift. Still, Jaguar's 5.0 V8 is epic, so it will accelerate very well. But what use is that in an enormous barge? And can we see the Disco 4 plz?
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