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A River Runs Through: Imagine an SUV that is able to blaze from zero to sixty in 5.9 seconds, then jump off the highway into the valley and across the river, and be back on the street in time for dinner. Give it a clean wash and the aforementioned story would have seemed like a small white lie. This is what a supercharged V8 is able to accomplish in the Range Rover Sport, a sophisticated 4×4 that runs like a sports car. Available with both new engines, I fancy the S/C model by far.
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I thought you were talking about the horse
Somewhere east of Laramie, there is a girl on a polo pony…
Splendid. The ultimate off-road car. I just miss an open fireplace or book shelves, at least as options.
Forget the car…I want the house!
Meh, as a Grand Wagoneer afficianado, I am unimpressed. Give me a Duxbury Cadillac any day.
For Providence, the snow and the potholes it’s either the LR or a Subaru STi. Wonder how the LR would power drift UP, over the hump @ Waterman and Benefit?
Wonder if WeatherTech has mats for the LR yet.
Oh! What’s wrong with the picture? Barbour don’t make coats to fit the gentleman on the left!
I know! There’s not a bunch of kooks dumping manure on the owner’s driveway for utilizing his right to purchase an SUV!
Brutha’ outside the ‘hood
I’ll take the pony girl.
Twotone
I lost the write-up somewhere between the fifth hyphen, eighth comma, and seventeenth descriptor.
As for the SUV… I’ll take a Lexus Land Cruiser over the BMW RR any day of the week ;)
The dealer demand for the Lexus competitor is completely off the charts compared with the Range Rover brethren. Just bringing one into the lanes and arresting all the bidders would reduce the level of money laundering at the auctions by at least half.
Speaking of Jezza, reclusive_in_nature,
Here is today’s comment from the man who would have been RF’s boss – had that Top Gear US thing worked out…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article6841306.ece
The LR isn’t sitting beside a pool of coolant, oil or some other vital fluid, and/or being towed on a flatbed to the dealer, and/or blinking lights randomly, and/or with the word “Lemon” spray-painted on it.
Oh, and it’s not on twankie dueces, but I’ll accept that given that the photo isn’t staged in North America.
I confess, this is one market segment I just don’t get at all. I once was shopping at a Lexus dealer, and he had the new LX four-wheel-drive in stock. Ninety grand for that bad boy. I asked the salesman if anyone who looks at that model has any intention of going off road. He just laughed and said that high heels and Prada don’t get you too far in the wilderness.
Or for money it costs to buy a brand new Range Rover Sport (about £45,000) – buy a Caterham Superlight (about £22,000) which does 0-60mph in 4.7 seconds and will handle infinitely better than the ‘Sport and also buy a Toyota Hilux H3 (about £23,000) which will be better off road and will never EVER break down. I know what I’d choose!
The route through the river was the shortest way back to the dealership for some warranty repairs.
The driver was likely following a defective nav system.
@ Steven Lang
I am curious as to where you got the BMW reference for this Range Rover, since Range Rover was owned by Ford and then recently sold to Tata as part of the Jaguar-Land Rover Group sale.
Anyways, this particular Range Rover utilizes Jaguar’s 5.0 supercharged engine, the same one in the beast known as the XFR.
Looks more rural than urban to me.
Yeah, but the horse gets better miles per bushel.