Land Rover Range Rover Sport SUV

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As a technical achievement, the Range Rover Sport is pretty spectacular. Capable of being everything from an overgrown hot hatchback to a high-riding luxury limousine while still possessing spectacular off-road capability, it’s all things to all people. But Land Rover clearly decided its star performer needed another string to its bow, so it set its Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) department to work, tasking it with building a replacement for the fire-breathing old Range Rover Sport SVR.

The result is the new Range Rover Sport SV, and it’s billed as the finest example of the breed, combining all its talents into one product. Bandwidth is the word used most often by Land Rover’s engineers when they talk about this car, which is supposed to retain all the Range Rover Sport’s talents while adding more race track performance. It may be an answer to a question nobody was asking, but if Land Rover gets it right, this could be a spectacular technical tour de force. So has the British brand pulled it off