The Range Rover Sport has proven something of a popular oddity, thanks to its seemingly paradoxical combination of crushing offroad ability and sportscar-humbling performance. The latest raft of revisions look to add more power, poise, and offroad ability to the car’s already impressive repertoire.

By Gareth Dean

Much like the new Discovery 4 and Range Rover models, the new Range Rover Sport includes a more powerful Jaguar V8 engine, some stylistic tweaks and improvements to vehicle dynamics.

Whether you view the Discovery 4 as a large SUV, alternative to an executive saloon or estate, or as a more attractive option than most large MPVs, it’s go it covered. There’s masses of room for the driver and front passenger, with the sense of space increased by the large centre console between the front pair that allows for plenty of elbow room. The high-up driving position gives a great all-round view and is easy to model to the driver’s preferred comfort settings. In the back seats, the middle row provides plenty of space in every direction for three people, old or young, and the third row remains a place of comfort for two adults. Fold the third row of seats away and you have a massive boot of 1192-litres, which can be extended up to an incredible 2558-litres with the middle row of seats tipped and folded flat into the floor.

FRANKFURT, Germany | Land Rover completes the introduction of its much-acclaimed new lineup for 2010 at the IAA Frankfurt, presenting for the first time a luxurious reclining rear-seat package for the Range Rover, as well as the exclusive new Range Rover Sport Autobiography derivatives.

Land Rover’s latest lineup showcases exciting developments across the range, including more powerful new engines offering greater fuel-efficiency, dynamic upgrades and striking exterior and interior design improvements for the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Discovery 4. These vehicles are now starting to go on sale in dealerships around the world. The Freelander 2 TD4e, introduced earlier in the year, offers an innovative intelligent Stop/Start system, making it the most fuel-efficient Land Rover to date.

Wallpaper’s future thirty show, currently on display in Rotterdam’s Chabot Museum until 10 January 2010, owed a great deal to the good people at Land Rover. Tasked with taking 30 precisely engineered architectural models to the city’s Chabot Museum, with three wallpaper staffers and a host of equipment along for the ride, the Range Rover Sport was a highly suitable steed. In HSE trim this hefty diesel workhorse was as happy humming along British A-roads as it was straddling the tramlines in Rotterdam’s city centre.