Imagine this: You have only one parking space, an unlimited budget and the need to purchase a car. Immediately. If that sounds simple enough, then consider the following criteria. Your vehicle should reflect your current, elevated station in life, but it can’t be too flashy, in case someone demands a lifestyle audit. (Are you listening, Julius?)
Your ideal car needs to offer enough space for a family holiday (even if you prefer to fly), but should still be compact enough to negotiate the narrow, leafy lanes of Constantia, Houghton or Bryanston without brushing centuries-old trees, lamp posts or unsuspecting cyclists.

There’s nothing wrong with a completely stock Land Rover Range Rover Sport Supercharged. It’s one of the most luxurious, capabale on- and off-road performance SUVs available. But once again, that just means a platform for craziness for the tuners at Project Kahn.

The RS600 package adds more power and a heaping dose of interior upgrades to the standard Range Rover Sport Supercharged. Starting with a custom exhaust system tuned for a powerful yet refined sound, the RS600 treatment tweaks the engine’s output to yield 600 horsepower–a 90-horsepower gain from the original, and a full 45 more horsepower than the X6 M and 50 more than the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S. Ridiculous? Yes, but also sure to be a lot of fun.

Even before the snow arrived in the UK just prior to Christmas, Land Rover UK sales in the last quarter of 2009 showed a 93% increase year on year as stability started to return to the new car market.

The improved 2010 Land and Range Rover models were introduced to the market at the end of 2009, including the most luxurious production version ever – the Autobiography available with 3.6-litre V8 twin turbo diesel or 5.0-litre V8 petrol engines. New 2010 Range Rover prices start at £66,095 and rise to £81,725.

For 2009 as a whole the company’s UK sales finished 10.3% down at 29,185 registrations. The fall in sales was due to a record breaking first quarter in 2008 said the company.

It’s not surprising that the Range Rover Sport inherits the trademark design that has made Range Rover so successful. The changes from the earlier model are a sloping roofline, much steeper windscreen, rear spoiler and a perforated grille. The difference is difficult to make out unless you carefully observed both the models.

On comparison you will notice that the Range Rover Sport is much smaller, sleeker and lower. The Range Rover Sport is designed keeping the sporty looks in mind but does not compromise on the road presence that the earlier Range Rover possessed.

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.

For 2010, the Range Rover gets a variety of upgrades aimed at improving the driving experience: both available engines have an extra dose of horsepower, the interior is even more luxurious, and the level of technology, both inside the cabin and under the skin, is more impressive than ever.

The Look

We’ll forgive you if your eyes can’t detect the slight changes in appearance from a distance. In addition to a revised grille, LEDs around the headlamps and taillamps, and slightly different side gills with LEDs that function as turn indicators, the fog lights move from the front bumper down to the sides of the air intake. The current Range Rover has aged quite well, so only minor changes seem appropriate.

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

Styling/Image
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.