These are the best pictures yet of the all-new Range Rover Sport. The new model has been spotted testing in the UK, in the run-up to its global debut, expected to be at the New York Motor Show in late March.
The mule spotted here sheds much of its disguise, showing how the new Range Rover Sport will look when it arrives in the UK later in the year.
At the front, the new Range Rover Sport features a similar headlight design to the new Range Rover, but with narrower lamp units.
However, the new Sport’s nose is closer in style to the smaller Range Rover Evoque, with a similar two-bar grille, more aggressive foglight design and thick plastic front bumper protection plate.
The Sport gets a similar clamshell bonnet to the Range Rover, which isn’t interrupted by the front wheelarches as it is on the Evoque. However, instead of the Range Rover’s controversial fake door vent design detail, the Sport gets a vent in its front wing, like the Evoque.
Towards the rear, the Sport gets smaller rear lights and a more obviously sloping roofline than the Range Rover, and a chunky rear bumper and small rear wing like the Evoque.
Inside, it will offer a similarly luxurious, hi-spec interior to the Range Rover, along with the latest Terrain Response 2 system. For this generation, the Sport will be offered with either five or seven seats.
As you can see in our pictures, the main difference is that the Sport uses a traditional gear shifter, rather than the rotary gear selector used by the Range Rover and Evoque. This will allow the driver to shift gears manually by pulling the level back to go up a gear, and push forward to go down.
The previous Range Rover Sport used the same Integrated Body Frame platform as the Discovery. However, the new car will switch to the aluminium platform of the new Range Rover, which will mean that the new car weighs considerably less than today’s 2,535kg car.
The same 258bhp 3.0-litre V6 diesel as in the Range Rover will be offered, along with a high-power 5.0-litre V8 petrol model. A nine-speed automatic gearbox is also expected. Prices are expected to start at around £55,000.
Read more:http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/land-rover/range-rover-sport/62818/range-rover-sport-spied#ixzz2Lru9V1YA
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It is going to look like a giant Evoque, which is pretty much what the RR Sport should be.
Just as expected, an XXL Evoque.
I thought that it might have been stolen at first... The Range Rover Sport is actually one of the most stolen luxury cars in New York too.It seems JLR made the mistake of having the new RRS detailed off corporate grounds. The shots were taken at a NYC detailer. This is the actual show car.
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