Land Rover's heavily updated Range Rover Sport is on show at the LA motor show - marking its first public appearance following a reveal at a private London Design Museum event in October.
The refreshed Sport gets design changes, new powertrains and an interior overhaul to challenge rivals, including the new Porsche Cayenne. The highlights of the mid-life facelift, ahead of an all-new model arriving in 2020, are a hot SVR variant and a plug-in hybrid electric model.
The flagship Range Rover Sport SVR, described by the car maker as “the ultimate performance SUV”, uses the F-Type SVR’s 5.0-litre V8 supercharged petrol engine with 567bhp – 25bhp more than the outgoing Range Rover Sport SVR – and 516lb ft.
The new SVR shaves 0.2sec from its predecessor’s 0-62mph time, at 4.5sec. The SVR also uses more carbonfibre than previously, making it “faster and more agile than before”, according to its maker’s claims.
Although the SVR is the most exciting model in the line-up for pure speed, it is the petrol-electric plug-in hybrid, badged P400e, that is most important for Land Rover, addressing previous criticisms of poor fuel economy and emissions from the Range Rover Sport.
It is also the first electrified model to be released since Jaguar Land Rover announced last month that it will have an electrified version of every model on sale from 2020. The P400e combines a 296bhp 2.0-litre four-cylinder Ingenium petrol unit with a 114bhp electric motor. With a total output of 398bhp available and permanent four-wheel drive, the model delivers 0-62mph in 6.7sec and a top speed of 137mph.
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Ingenium Engines.
Others have said JLR's engine program is a bit of a shambles, but personally I see them as taking their time to get it right.
VW had to cheat.
BMW opted for fragile, unreliable engines.
Now I'm no tax expect
But if the cheapest SD4 diesel, costs £61,315 and the P400e starts from £70,800 then by the time you take in congestion charges, economy and company car tax then surely the better equiped (?), much faster, quieter, smoother petrol Hybrid is cheaper within just a couple of years? Afterall it's only a difference of 14% in purchase price