Range Rover Range Rover Sport 5.0 Supercharged Review: Range Finder
The Range Rover Sport is a SUV that has won favours with Premiership footballers and movie villains alike. We find out how it fares in Singapore’s mostly urban environment.
Climb onboard the Range Rover (yes, you literally climb onboard this one) and you’ll be greeted by luxury and opulence that only a British marque can offer. The interior is lined with the finest wood and leather throughout. This is yet another reason why the Range Rover is so popular among the rich and famous. The Sport’s cabin features the same sloping centre console design of the Vogue’s.
The interior is equipped with a comprehensive infotainment system with a superb sounding Harmon/kardon Logic 7 sound system, iPod integration, sat nav and Bluetooth telephone connectivity. The view out of the driver’s seat is a rather commanding one that no other 4x4s in the Range Rover Sport’s class can match. The terrain conditions immediately surrounding the car can further be scrutinized by the Surround Camera system, which features cameras on all corners of the car to inform the driver of the terrain conditions immediately surrounding the car via the images relayed back to the display screen on the dashboard. In traditional Land Rover/Range Rover fashion, the myriad of switches and knobs are logically placed and are big and chunky for ease of use.
At the rear, the Sport features the traditional Range Rover split tailgate design for accessing the reasonably sized boot. The Sport’s load area is not as accommodating as the Vogue’s but there’s still 958 litres of load volume with the seats up. Rear leg and knee room for rear passengers are also not as generous as in the Vogue or when compared to other rivals like the BMW X5 or Porsche Cayenne but there’s more than enough headroom despite the lowered roof line.
The Range Rover Sport might be fifty grand less expensive than the Vogue but it doesn’t lack much of the latter’s equipment, grandeur, off-road capability and on road presence while being more dynamic at the same time. Aside from the Vogue, there’s just no other luxury SUV out there that feels as grand and as aristocratic as the Range Rover Sport.
Credits: Story and Photos by Joe Yeo
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