RRsport.co.uk set up a head to head between the 5 litre and 4.2 litre Sports.

A great video showing the power difference that the two lumps deliver. Send them both down the track and see how long it takes to get up to 100mph and back to zero again.

The Black 5 litre is a 2010 model year supercharged Sport, the Orange 4.2 is also supercharged but looks like it takes almost twice as long to complete the test.

Both vehicles were supplied by Charles Hurst Land Rover in London.

This article was taken from: lro.com

Blaze’s own Stig look-alike, Andrew Koch has been out and about in the latest Range Rover Sport – a premium SUV blending off road ability with luxury.

While traditional Land Rover models have combined unbeatable off-road performance with the amenities of a luxury sedan, the Range Rover Sport represents Land Rover’s first entry into the burgeoning high-performance Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) arena. It is designed to offer sporty road manners and traditional Land Rover luxury without sacrificing the go-anywhere abilities of other Land Rovers, all of which it does admirably.

Range Rover’s answer to the BMW X5 aims to mix sporty driving dynamics with the British firm’s legendary off-road ability.

On the road price: £42,188 - £62,545
For : On-road performance, attractive interior, mud-plugging ability
Against : High prices, thirsty petrol engines, high CO2 emissions

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Despite being based on the same platform as the latest Land Rover Discovery, the Sport is unmistakably a Range Rover. Trademark design cues, such as the ‘floating’ roof panel and clamshell bonnet, combine with a lower windscreen and steeply angled tailgate. However, a raised ride height hints at the car’s considerable off-road ability. Buyers can choose from S, XS, SE, HSE and range-topping HST trims.

As the international motor industry gathers in Detroit Land Rover choose the London Boat Show to launch the Stormer.

Land Rover looks like it has chosen to concentrate on meeting their customers with the decicion to launch a new special edition at the Boat Show.

Granted it is only a trim-level special edition but launching it to the domestic market rather than the hand-wriging (formerly back-slapping) Detroit show is a good indication that austerity measures are focusing attention on the customer.

Prototypes for Land Rover’s facelifted Range Rover Sport have been spotted testing at the Nurburgring less than two months after the test cars were last seen in the UK. The performance SUV already received a series of upgrades last year, including the introduction of a 3.6L twin turbo diesel V8, so for its next update the list of changes have been kept to a minimum, although there’s the chance of the addition of a new high output supercharged V8 engine.

NO matter what other manufacturers field you cannot deny that the Range Rover is a masterpiece of automotive engineering.

The twin-turbo V8 diesel powered Vogue SE model I drove recently certainly hammered this point home because in the elevated armchair driving position of this great British design you certainly do feel king of the road.

There has been much said of the high cost of vehicles such as this but let’s put it into perspective. The model I drove costs £69,495 - expensive to some. But when you think that a top-end BMW 5 Series Touring model can set you back nearly the same money or a Mercedes-Benz CLS Coupe can cost around £75,000 then the Range Rover suddenly does not seem that over the top.

A prototype Range Rover capable of going 200 miles on a single electric charge is to be unveiled.

It has been designed by a team working in Oxford and could be on sale next year.

The bill for driving an environmentally friendly Range Rover will be a hefty one, with the prices ranging from £95,000 to £125,000.

However, unlike the car’s conventional equivalents, the tax bill for running the car will be minimal.

Electric cars on the market, such as the G-Wizz have a range of around 50-60 miles - but are also on sale at a fraction of the proposed price for the Liberty Electric Range Rover.

Land Rover is putting direct and digital marketing at the heart of a campaign to promote the Range Rover Sport.

The work, created by Wunderman, focuses on the exhilaration of driving a sports vehicle and ties up with an ongoing TV campaign for the range, in which the brand compares the anticipation felt before a thrilling experience to that experienced before taking the wheel of the Range Rover Sport.

Using both direct and digital media, the campaign seeks to target male drivers with significant disposable income. The direct element involves the use of heat-sensitive paper to demonstrate the effect of the Range Rover Sport on the ‘red-blooded’ recipient.

The electrically-powered Range Rover is on its way after a newly-founded British producer announced investments of 30 million pounds (60 million dollars) to re-engineer the luxury cross- country vehicle. The Oxford-based Liberty Electric Cars Ltd said it would design and manufacture a unique electric drivetrain platform to power a wide range of large vehicles, which it says will have the flexibility to incorporate emerging technologies.

Annual vehicle production, which will include an electrically powered Range Rover, will, the company said, be in “tens of thousands” by 2012.

Vehicle prices will range between 95,000 and 125,000 pounds, depending on model and specification.

It’s official: size matters in car design. Only instead of ever-bigger and brawnier gas-guzzlers, it’s the little guys who now rule the roadway. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the new Land Rover LRX. Long known for its size and off-road power, the iconic all-terrain brand is going mini (well, mini-er). Six inches shorter and almost eight inches lower than an LR2, the LRX was conceived as a premium car, designed to appeal to customers who want the benefits of a 4×4 and the presence of a larger vehicle, but don’t want to be held personally responsible for the disappearance of the ozone.