In an era when ballparks designate anti-peanut sections and pole dancing is deemed exercise, allow us to add Range Rovers racing at the Nürburgring to the list of bizarre, messed-up issues in this world.
Soon after spy videos caught the Range Rover Sport SVR whipping about the ’Ring final month, Land Rover has come clean with its lap time: 8 minutes and 14 seconds. That makes it the quickest production SUV in history about the well-known 12.9-mile Nordschleife loop. It is 20 seconds faster than the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, at least until the subsequent-generation Cayenne Turbo joins the upcoming 12-cylinder Bentley SUV and the Lamborghini Urus in the subsequent couple of years.
But most dramatically, the 550-hp Sport SVR is 41 seconds faster than the lap time Land Rover set with a 2010 Range Rover Supercharged, which was down 40 horsepower and up many hundred pounds. Compared with sports vehicles that are multiple feet decrease, road to roof, the SVR is an unlikely road-course ace. Yet the Dodge Viper SRT10 roadster of 10 years ago finished only a second faster over the exact same circuit. And the original Aston Martin Vanquish was 3 seconds slower. This, from a brick-shaped truck that will invest most of its life idling in Los Angeles, is fearsome progress.
Land Rover stated it has stiffened the SVR’s anti-roll bars, modified the 8-speed automatic, and recalibrated the 4-wheel-drive program for greater response. No doubt Landie has taught the Sport’s Dynamic Mode some life lessons. And although the SVR will not come with the track prototype’s roll cage and Recaro racing seats, the aero kit—and like AMG, the badge—will be the SVR’s most significant promoting point after the camo is stripped off. Inasmuch as the “regular” Sport Supercharged pulls nearly as challenging as our lengthy-term Jaguar F-variety V-8 S, the SVR will be a scary sight in the suburbs.
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