Land Rover’s Black Exterior pack (£1450) adds gloss black grille and bumper trim, black badging, and black louvres on the bonnet and front wings. It’s all a bit fashionable, though, and it seems a shame to lose so much visual detail in the car’s design.
joining an already comprehensive line-up from spring 2024. Global volume and luxury car profit margin come together crucially for JLR with the Sport range, whether that's at the lower end, or with the latest £180,000+ performance model.
Two shark fin roof aerials rather than one? When so much else about the Range Rover Sport is ‘reductive’ almost to a fault, they do look odd; although in previous Range Rover models one has been responsible for normal DAB radio reception, the other the car's mobile data connection.JLR claims that it delivers sizeable torsional stiffness gains as well, but it makes few specific assertions about weight saving.
Most models have open differentials unless you pay extra, but the SV has locking centre and active rear differentials as standard. It also has what JLR dubs 6D Dynamic suspension, a hydraulically-linked damper system not unlike that fitted to McLaren supercars, only here it not only links the suspension side-to-side, negating the need for anti-roll bars, but is also linked front-to-rear, so can control the car's pitch. Range Rover claims exceptional levels of roll and pitch control.
The car’s standard of material quality is high but perhaps lacks quite the same level of tactile appeal that it has on the eye – in certain places.
The system offers Amazon Alexa voice control services built in as well. A 29-speaker Meridian Signature premium system, with as many as four headrest speakers, is on the options list, along with rear-seat entertainment screens. Overseas we've driven the latest SV Edition One model too. Its performance is astounding - JLR's claim that it can do from 0-62mph in 3.8sec feels entirely plausible and the BMW-sourced V8 is responsive throughout the range. There's little point extending it all the way to the 7000rpm redline and there's so much effortless shove through the mid-range you'd only do it to enjoy the sound, which is rich and purposeful, if less angry than you'd remember from the old 5.
So while the Sport has long been a particularly satisfying car in which to bowl along at that engaged but still sensible eight-tenths road pace, the new one has that interested cross-country canter down to a fine art. Instead of fighting with its mass, it lets it breathe over a gently rising surface, keeping it in check but allowing you to easily gauge how much composure is in reserve.
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