2017 range rover sport svr drag race

Seems every luxury automaker has their hot letters: Mercedes AMG. BMW M. Now even Land Rover’s got some: “SVR.” We hammered the $130,000 2015 Range Rover Sport SVR through a forest and straight onto a race track to find out if those initials actually stand for anything.

(Full Disclosure: Jaguar Land Rover put me up in a couple great hotels and fed me some really nice food for a couple days so I could try this vehicle on road and on track at the Monticello Motor Club.)

Here’s the short story; the Range Rover Sport SVR takes every variation of loud, adds noise, and runs it through a stack of Marshall amps.

It is an unapologetic assault on all senses, ergo it’s essentially the antithesis to what a Range Rover’s been since somebody decided to add leather and luxury to Spen King’s utility wagon.

Is that a good thing?

Well old chap, that entirely depends on what kind of Range Rover owner you are.

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