VIDEO: Range Rover Sport SVR – taken to the limit

Range Rover Sport SVR-12

Land Rover has come out with a new video clip on the Range Rover Sport SVR, which made its debut at Pebble Beach back in August. The 90-second film demonstrates the adjustability, poise and body control of the new SVR, all in dramatic fashion.

The RRS SVR is powered by an uprated version of the AJ-V8 Gen III 5.0 litre supercharged V8 offering 550 PS and 680 Nm, 40 PS and 56 Nm more than the regular Range Rover Sport Supercharged. Power from the mill is channeled through a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission to a permanent four-wheel drive system.

Performance figures include a 0-100 km/h time of just 4.5 seconds and an electronically-limited top speed of 260 km/h, making it the fastest, most powerful Land Rover ever built. The numbers were also good enough to get the SVR to lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 8 minutes 14 seconds, a record for an SUV around the Green Hell.

The order books for the vehicle opened in October, and the first deliveries of the second offering to come out of Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) – after the Jaguar F-Type Project 7 – are due to begin sometime in the first quarter of next year.

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Comments

  • Does anyone notice the FL tyre is wobbly at 0:23?? Is this normal? Any sifu care to share their thoughts and experience?

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    • LeJohn on Dec 18, 2014 at 8:21 pm

      I think probably because the right tyre is on the apex bouncing around causing the left to do that ?

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  • ben yap on Dec 18, 2014 at 6:18 pm

    this will smoke any Toyota Fortuner or Hilux on the road.

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  • Ah Beng Kia on Dec 18, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    I read this as Tata Sport SVR.

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  • niterunner99 on Dec 19, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    this car is more than 2tons & high center og gravity, believe that’s why the tyres are shaky.
    drive like that i’m sure my eggs in carboot all break & i have to wash car.

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