* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    ‘Sinners,’ starring Michael B. Jordan, is now streaming on Prime Video – About Amazon

    Experience the Thrills of ‘Sinners’ Starring Michael B. Jordan – Now Streaming on Prime Video!

    California Mid-State Fair announces entertainment lineups for Frontier and Mission stages – KSBY News

    Exciting Entertainment Lineup Unveiled for California Mid-State Fair’s Frontier and Mission Stages!

    Spotify & OpenAI: Will Gen AI ‘Hollow Out’ Entertainment? – Technology Magazine

    Will Generative AI Transform the Future of Entertainment

    Author Richard Russo Will Speak At Sandwich Town Hall – CapeNews.net

    Join Us for an Inspiring Evening with Author Richard Russo at Sandwich Town Hall!

    Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions – Variety

    Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions – Variety

    Salem’s Harborwalk Garden Cultivates Community with Entertainment, Food, and Events – 105.7 WROR

    Discover the Vibrant Community Spirit at Salem’s Harborwalk Garden: A Hub for Entertainment, Food, and Fun!

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Domo to Participate in the D.A. Davidson Technology Summit – Business Wire

    Domo Set to Shine at the D.A. Davidson Technology Summit!

    When fiction becomes fact: 3 pieces of modern technology inspired by Star Trek – Redshirts Always Die

    From Screen to Reality: 3 Modern Technologies Inspired by Star Trek

    The Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology – UCF, ZPP, and IRR10 – Alma Research and Education Center

    Exploring the Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology: Innovations and Insights from UCF, ZPP, and IRR10

    Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite – MIT Technology Review

    Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite – MIT Technology Review

    Finland Set to Lead EU Quantum Technology Defense Project – IoT World Today

    Finland Set to Lead EU Quantum Technology Defense Project – IoT World Today

    AI for lawyers: Win back your time using technology – nationaljurist.com

    Reclaim Your Time: How AI is Transforming the Legal Profession

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    ‘Sinners,’ starring Michael B. Jordan, is now streaming on Prime Video – About Amazon

    Experience the Thrills of ‘Sinners’ Starring Michael B. Jordan – Now Streaming on Prime Video!

    California Mid-State Fair announces entertainment lineups for Frontier and Mission stages – KSBY News

    Exciting Entertainment Lineup Unveiled for California Mid-State Fair’s Frontier and Mission Stages!

    Spotify & OpenAI: Will Gen AI ‘Hollow Out’ Entertainment? – Technology Magazine

    Will Generative AI Transform the Future of Entertainment

    Author Richard Russo Will Speak At Sandwich Town Hall – CapeNews.net

    Join Us for an Inspiring Evening with Author Richard Russo at Sandwich Town Hall!

    Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions – Variety

    Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions – Variety

    Salem’s Harborwalk Garden Cultivates Community with Entertainment, Food, and Events – 105.7 WROR

    Discover the Vibrant Community Spirit at Salem’s Harborwalk Garden: A Hub for Entertainment, Food, and Fun!

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Domo to Participate in the D.A. Davidson Technology Summit – Business Wire

    Domo Set to Shine at the D.A. Davidson Technology Summit!

    When fiction becomes fact: 3 pieces of modern technology inspired by Star Trek – Redshirts Always Die

    From Screen to Reality: 3 Modern Technologies Inspired by Star Trek

    The Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology – UCF, ZPP, and IRR10 – Alma Research and Education Center

    Exploring the Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology: Innovations and Insights from UCF, ZPP, and IRR10

    Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite – MIT Technology Review

    Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite – MIT Technology Review

    Finland Set to Lead EU Quantum Technology Defense Project – IoT World Today

    Finland Set to Lead EU Quantum Technology Defense Project – IoT World Today

    AI for lawyers: Win back your time using technology – nationaljurist.com

    Reclaim Your Time: How AI is Transforming the Legal Profession

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Sports

Range Rover Sport SV Review: M5-Engined SUV Is Shockingly Capable

February 16, 2024
in Sports
Range Rover Sport SV Review: M5-Engined SUV Is Shockingly Capable
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The SV is one of the most impressive cars ever built by Land Rover, although it does come at quite a price

I can’t put my finger on exactly when this happened, but there was a point at which a big, tall, heavy SUV going around corners without tipping over ceased to become impressive. It’s become expected. Things like trick suspension, leaps in tyre technology, rear-wheel steering systems and active anti-roll bars mean these hefty lumps can corner in a way that simply didn’t seem possible a few years ago.

Fruitier versions of the Range Rover Sport have been at the forefront of this fast SUV technology war, and now there’s an all-new one. It’s called the Range Rover Sport SV, but can it bring anything new to the table? We drove the car extensively on a variety of roads in Portugal plus an off-road course and the tricky Portimao circuit to find out. 

Range Rover Sport SV - front

Range Rover Sport SV – front

First things first – the name. You might have noticed it’s lost a letter relative to its predecessor, the Range Rover Sport SVR. The idea, SV’s head honcho Jamal Hameedi says, is simplification – before, you had SV, SVX, and the catchily titled SV Autobiography Dynamic. Now, the “ultimate expression” of Range Roveriness is SV or ‘Special Vehicles’.

And there’s certainly a lot that’s special about the Sport SV. It has a 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 that’s closely related to the one BMW stuffs in its M5, M8, X5 M and X6 M, here pumping out 626bhp. This makes for a 0-60mph time of 3.6 seconds and a top speed of 180mph.

To go with that, there are a lot of those things we mentioned a few paragraphs ago – trick suspension, the latest tyres and a rear wheel steering system, but not active anti-roll bars. Or any anti-roll bars at all.

Range Rover Sport SV - track driving

Range Rover Sport SV – track driving

The SV uses hydraulically linked dampers (rather like a McLaren supercar) joined up with some 25 metres of high-pressure hoses and working in conjunction with twin chamber air springs and a six-axis inertial measurement unit. All of this comes together to combat body roll, pitch and dive. Meanwhile, the SV mode drops the body by a further 15mm, making the car look positively slammed as far as stock SUVs go.

The SV is a chunky thing, weighing in at 2,560kg, so stopping the damn thing is going to be a tall order. Thankfully, it has huge brakes with staggered pistons in the callipers, the idea being these help the pads work on a large surface area of the massive discs. Optionally, you can have carbon ceramics, and also 23-inch carbon fibre wheels – a production first. Just try your best not to kerb them.

Range Rover Sport SV - track driving

Range Rover Sport SV – track driving

Choosing somewhere like Portimao for a launch location shows a certain degree of confidence in your product – it’s a place with blind crests and big changes in elevation that put huge loads through the tyres as the mass of this already heavy vehicle effectively increases through strenuous G-forces. That confidence is not misplaced.

Running in the angry SV mode, the fastest Range Rover Sport takes everything you can throw at it. It isn’t an oversteer monster, but there’s a lovely feeling of the car pivoting slightly in the middle in tighter corners. The lateral grip from the bespoke Michelin Pilot S 5 is extremely impressive, as is the traction, with the all-wheel drive system rarely failing to lob out all 626 brake horsepower.

The car stays reasonably level, but there is still some roll – the engineers have left a bit of slack in the system. Plus, in the SV mode with the ESC’s track mode enabled, electronic interventions are for the most part imperceptible. 

Range Rover Sport SV - track driving

Range Rover Sport SV – track driving

The BMW-sourced engine is a mighty thing in the mid-range, but isn’t a V8 that encourages you to rev it out. In terms of noise, it’s far from the best-sounding eight-cylinder engine out there, with a lack of old-school V8 rumble. It’s hard not to pine for the old supercharged 5.0-litre engine used by the old SVR and still found in the Defender V8. That engine might not dole out fat gobs of torque like this newer turbo lump, nor is it as powerful, but in terms of character, there’s no contest.

That 4.4-litre V8 sends its somewhat muted fury to all four wheels via an eight-speed automatic gearbox. There are more aggressively set up modern slushboxes around, but the transmission here gets on with the job admirably and didn’t frustrate once with a denied downshift or laboured upshift.

Hovering around 150mph at the end of the start/finish straight on the last of our flying laps, I have a slight worry the brake pedal is going to feel a little long after all the punishment the stoppers have experienced thus far in the session, but it’s unfounded, with the staggered-piston brakes scrubbing off speed just as effectively as they did when we started. This probably would have been a different story without the optional carbon ceramics, of course.

Range Rover Sport SV - driving

Range Rover Sport SV – driving

Out on the road, SV mode proves too firm on all but the smoothest of roads. Dynamic is a better bet, or there’s the option to combine the softest suspension tune with the angriest settings for everything else, which is usually our default for performance cars we test in the UK to avoid the feeling of your fillings rattling around.

Set thusly, the SV has a knack for settling nicely after harsh undulations and imperfections in the road surface, although particularly harsh upsets can catch it out. Boistrous applications of throttle in tight corners can also upset the ESC, even when it’s supposed to be turned fully off. In some situations, this involves both a backing off of the throttle and some fairly hefty brake intervention. 

This isn’t something the SV can be singled out for, really – in all fast SUVs, ‘off’ never quite means that. The system will generally still intervene in the name of rollover protection, even when it doesn’t really need to. 

Range Rover Sport SV - road driving

Range Rover Sport SV – road driving

When this doesn’t happen, that sense of the car pivoting is emphasised even more than when on the track. It’s a truly playful car and an extremely capable one that’s a noticeable step up from the old SVR. Even a switch to the standard-fit Michelin Pilot Sport All Seasons didn’t seem to dull its responses by any tangible degree – apparently, you can still pull 1.1 lateral G with them on, just .1G off what’s possible with the S 5 boots. But is it the best-driving SUV ever? Not quite.

The remarkable (and discontinued for the UK) Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT remains unsurpassed. It’s more playful still, and its steering sweeter and more natural feeling. But the Range Rover Sport SV is not that far off, and all the while, it’s far waftier than the Cayenne, not to mention more capable off-road.

The SV tackled a fairly hardy off-road course with ease, the only change being the removal of the carbon fibre front splitter in accordance with what the manual suggests. In any case, the additional ride height made possible by the air springs meant the splitter would have been reasonably safe from being smashed to pieces.

Range Rover Sport SV - interior driving

Range Rover Sport SV – interior driving

In terms of pure bandwidth, the Range Rover Sport SV is unsurpassed. You pay dearly for all that capability, though – the Edition One version of the car costs £168,000 even before you’ve added the carbon wheels and brakes. I believe the word you’re searching for is ‘oof’. Yes, it’s very nice inside, even if we’re not huge fans of the lack of physical climate controls, but still, that’s an eyebrow-raising figure. Albeit one people are willing to pay – all 550 Edition Ones coming to the UK are sold out.

A regular Sport SV hasn’t even been revealed or priced just yet, but you can bet that it’ll still be incredibly expensive. But if you do have the money and want an SUV that really can do it all, it doesn’t get better than this. 

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Car Throttle – https://www.carthrottle.com/reviews/land-rover/range-rover-sport-sv-review-m5-engined-suv-shockingly-capable

Tags: Rangeroversport
Previous Post

Time To Gawp At Singer’s 300th ‘Reimagined’ Porsche 911

Next Post

SaskTel’s 5G network makes its way to Prince Albert

The Ecology of Visitation – National Park Service (.gov)

Exploring the Impact of Visitor Interactions on Natural Ecosystems

June 5, 2025
Students play with science at Camp Invention at School of Innovation – News-Herald

Unleashing Creativity: Students Dive into Science at Camp Invention!

June 5, 2025
Are cold plunges good for you? Here’s what the science says. – The Washington Post

Unlocking the Benefits of Cold Plunges: What Science Reveals!

June 5, 2025
Casino magnate Alvin Chau’s wife Heidi Chan embraces Buddhist lifestyle after husband’s incarceration – VnExpress International

Casino magnate Alvin Chau’s wife Heidi Chan embraces Buddhist lifestyle after husband’s incarceration – VnExpress International

June 5, 2025
How each of the 32 teams qualified for the 2025 Club World Cup – The New York Times

Unveiling the Path: How All 32 Teams Earned Their Spot in the 2025 Club World Cup

June 5, 2025
Service side of the U.S. economy contracts for first time in almost a year due to trade fights – MarketWatch

U.S. Service Sector Shrinks for the First Time in Nearly a Year Amid Trade Tensions

June 5, 2025
‘Sinners,’ starring Michael B. Jordan, is now streaming on Prime Video – About Amazon

Experience the Thrills of ‘Sinners’ Starring Michael B. Jordan – Now Streaming on Prime Video!

June 5, 2025
Sutter Health investing $23 million in primary and behavioral care – Healthcare Finance News

Sutter Health investing $23 million in primary and behavioral care – Healthcare Finance News

June 5, 2025
Gov. Shapiro sues USDA over canceled $13M food purchasing program – LancasterOnline

Gov. Shapiro sues USDA over canceled $13M food purchasing program – LancasterOnline

June 5, 2025
Domo to Participate in the D.A. Davidson Technology Summit – Business Wire

Domo Set to Shine at the D.A. Davidson Technology Summit!

June 5, 2025

Categories

Archives

June 2025
MTWTFSS
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30 
« May    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (667)
  • Economy (681)
  • Entertainment (21,587)
  • General (15,261)
  • Health (9,723)
  • Lifestyle (684)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (682)
  • Politics (690)
  • Science (15,901)
  • Sports (21,185)
  • Technology (15,667)
  • World (668)

Recent News

The Ecology of Visitation – National Park Service (.gov)

Exploring the Impact of Visitor Interactions on Natural Ecosystems

June 5, 2025
Students play with science at Camp Invention at School of Innovation – News-Herald

Unleashing Creativity: Students Dive into Science at Camp Invention!

June 5, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version