Range Rover Sport SVR – fastest, most powerful RRS

Range Rover Sport SVR proto 1

The in-development, hotted-up version of the Range Rover Sport has an official designation, and it’s not the RS as previously believed – the fastest and most powerful RRS will wear a SVR suffix, the first to do so.

A prototype will be making its public debut – still in camouflage – at the Goodwood Festival of Speed over the weekend. It’s the first appearance of the new high-performance SVR-badged Land Rover and Jaguar models to be created by Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations skunkworks outfit.

No details yet about the Range Rover Sport SVR, which is set to go on sale in 2015, save that it’ll have a 550 PS output, which is what the tweaked 5.0 litre supercharged V8 that also resides in the Jaguar F-Type R, XKR-S and XFR-S puts out. With 680 Nm of twist on call, that’s 40 PS and 55 Nm more than the regular Range Rover Sport Supercharged.

Presumably paired with the “Quickshift” eight-speed automatic transmission, performance figures being bandied about by various sources for the SVR include a 0-100 km/h time of about 4.5 seconds and a top speed of about 265 km/h. As the video of it doing Nurburgring shows, it’s pretty rapid. Sounds good too.

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

Comments

  • Semi-Value (Member) on Jun 25, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    when it reaches malaysia….rm 1,859,888 – rm 1,998,888….considering how land rover sime darby malaysia gives us ridiculous prices for its cars

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    • JDMftw on Jun 25, 2014 at 4:10 pm

      Not worth buying at all.

      And considering the problems which will arise later on…

      Rather get a true off road 4wd, like Toyota Land cruiser or FJ cruiser rather than these where most ‘rich’ men dont use it for off road.

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      • land cruiser on Jun 26, 2014 at 8:48 am

        Ya true..they want BIG aslo want super-duper fast…Like if they see a Lambo and dey go.. “See…see my Rover sport”

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    • ilyjdm on Jun 25, 2014 at 4:17 pm

      Not worth buying at all.

      And considering the problems which will arise later on.

      Rather get a true off road 4wd, like Toyota Land cruiser or FJ cruiser rather than these where most ‘rich’ men dont use it for off road.

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    • rogaz on Jun 27, 2014 at 2:24 pm

      You can by Nissan as your alternative if you like

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  • karipap on Jun 25, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    bunyi yang menyetimkan

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