The Range Rover Sport is not SVR world’s fastest SUV. No, it is the second fastest and that’s when the faith of most automotive sharing a ride in a German race circuit rare remains the final arbiter of the performance. Land Rover says the SVR, the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 8 round: it 14 league games in a sports car rather heavy 15 seconds behind Porsche predicated on the time a decade ago, but this is a yawn, for the new Cayenne Turbo S . And the only damning statistic Land Rover to the white flag to fly and before leaving the whole project, the engineering team at Blizzard decent thing to do write formal letters of apology.

Of course not. If you made a less adequately the capacity of an SUV that time you can think to fully realize a cycle of ‘ring, then be happy to hear that. The SVR perhaps even the fastest, but the Leviathan of 162 mph will be fast enough for almost everyone. And after a week with one, we can report that the most beautiful trick is the way it combines the performance of a sports car with real ways, the Range Rover is about as urbane and sophisticated as the standard sport.

The whole package

The SVR is the first model in the recently launched performance JLR Special Vehicle Operations division, and as such we recognize it as the equivalent of something like the BMW X6 M and the Mercedes-AMG GLE63 see. Other versions of Jaguar and Land Rover will SVR, and promised that everyone is the latest incarnation of power of this model. In other words, no headroom is more difficult for a core of the left, “plus” version, which is as good as it gets.

The basics are familiar with many of the changes that make the SVR tuning software rather than new hardware. Power comes, not surprisingly, from JLR the 5.0-liter supercharged V-8, 550 horsepower tune here. That’s 40 more than the standard V-8 engine Range Rover Sport Supercharged, and is accompanied with 502 pounds-feet of torque. The output is mixed by the same eight-speed automatic regular exercise, but the programming process optimization upshifts, which provide 50 percent faster. Blipped the throttle smooth gearchanges to automatically downshifting. Rear differential locks more aggressive than in the standard drive and generates a pronounced effect torque vectoring. The engine is basically the same as those found in the F-Type Jaguar R and breathes through a system of equally aggressive switchable sports exhaust, which is in dynamic mode SVR virtually no room.

Santo Schnikes

The performance of the straight line is amazing, much the way a whale would fall through the roof. At low speeds, the powertrain is smooth and refined, but the animal is hidden inside near the surface. Go over the top or within the accelerator pedal travel and inch V-8 snarly switches and starts to pull harder. And as the right foot moves, the engine pushes even more difficult by the time your foot in the firewall, the SVR makes a good impression of a speedboat race with open tube soundtrack and helmet-up similar feeling, our estimate of 4.4-second zero to 60 miles per hour is ridiculously fast, but also downplays the way the SVR feel when released, is the feeling of unstoppable acceleration supported transferring virtually seamless change.

Curves is equally impressive, with the SVR, change a real enthusiasm for the address. Land Rover could not do much to change the Range Rover Sport, the mass or center of gravity of the RVS is a claimed 55 pounds heavier than the normal V-8 ute and tips the scales at over 5,000 pounds. However, you have to hide a remarkable job when their size down hard on a difficult path. The car went with optional 22-inch wheels (21s are standard) carry huge tires 295 / 40R-22 Continental ContiSportContact cabinets. These generate serious grip on the kind of slow, sharp curves, which usually reduce even the sportiest SUV understeer grotesque, and the steering is precise and well weighted. Vectoring system notably working on aggressive couple more corners, sent with power to the outside rear wheel to SVR applicant may appeal if the safety of gas in the middle of the curve of the support means and the animal will feel, as if it carried out wide.

Yes, even you have off-road chops

Despite the hype, the SVR not a sports car. The Nürburgring lap time is a triumph of power, adhesion and efficiency of large Brembo brakes; Still it produces hard cornering body roll and annoying noises all passengers who happen to have on board. But not fast SVR talent goes, with air suspension give a comfortable ride on any surface. Intangible was set as the standard Range Rover Sport with modified air chambers, unique settings for adaptive dampers and stiffer bushings pistons. But it is not difficult or too tight. Find In fact, apart from the need for extra $ 30 billion to buy one, it is not clear what is lost by picking the SVR on the V-8 standard. You can even offer the same off the road, assuming full tire swap with a wading depth of 33 inches and the continued presence of a mode of low-range transfer appropriate for encryption rock. Whether you risk damaging this natty aluminum wheels with a trip to the desert would want it is another matter.

Our only complaint with the cabin, which, apart from the shortsighted bucket seats racing style, feels more or less identical to that of the standard Range Rover Sport. If discretion is the better part of valor, he is very brave; It is also very dark, with carbon fiber and black microsuede cut. As with other products of JLR, the touch screen feels about five years behind the leader, which is slow to respond and slightly graphics blocks. But these are trifles. The Range Rover Sport SUV SVR is not the fastest performance, but might be best to actually live with.