Land Rover PH launches all-new Range Rover Sport

LRP Executive Director Marc Soong with the all new Range Rover Sport

Land Rover Philippines (LRPhils) Motors Inc., the official importer-distributor of Land Rover vehicles in the Philippines, unveiled the all-new Range Rover Sport in its Land Rover Activity Center and showroom located along 32^nd and 4^th at Crescent Park West, Bonifacio Global City.  The new generation Range Rover Sport looked like it went to the gym, shed some 420 kg of curb weight and came out looking and feeling lean with a business suit, promising the best-ever on-road dynamics together with class-leading all-terrain capability that Land Rover is known for.

Although this current model Range Rover Sport retains a distinctive DNA of its predecessor, LRPhils considers this latest Range Rover variant as the fastest, most agile and responsive Land Rover ever. This dynamic new Range Rover Sport features a bolder and muscular exterior design that comes well with its improved and dynamic driving performance. Thanks to its sleeker and wind-cutting windshield angle, streamlined profile and sloping roofline, the new Sport is 8% more aerodynamic than the previous model, with a drag coefficient of Cd 0.34. This new, technology-packed, Range Rover Sport also offers a more luxurious interior with a seating flexibility of an occasional 5+2 seating.

The Sport sits on top of the three-model collection of the Range Rover series, along with the Evoque and the standard Range Rover variant. “Designed and engineered without compromise, the All-New Range Rover Sport embodies the innovative spirit that the brand is known for. With Land Rover capability at its heart, the breadth of capability of this vehicle makes it the clear leader in its class on road and off road,” said Marc Soong, Executive Director of LRPhils.

This Range Rover’s new lightweight fully independent suspension and innovative dynamic chassis design and technology gives the Sport’s all-new, first-in-class aluminum architecture a significant weight loss of up to 420kg, along it to be more agile and live up to its sporting driving and handling dynamics. Its wide-spaced double-wishbone design for the front suspension and advanced multi-link layout at the rear offers a very versatile platform for on-road and off-road driving.  Its lighter chassis also gives a greener carbon footprint with CO2 emissions reduced to as much as 194g/km.

Currently, it has four engine variants – two supercharged gasoline engines (5.0-liter 505 hp V8 and the new 3.0-litre 336 hp V6) and two diesel engines (3.0-litre 289 hp SDV6 and 4.4-litre 336 hp SDV8).

“The new Range Rover Sport is the ultimate luxury SUV. A new Range Rover Sport for a new era. It is relevant, sustainable and utterly desirable. Alongside the all-new Range Rover, and the Range Rover Evoque, the new Range Rover Sport represents the third distinct product in Land Rover’s product revolution. Firmly establishing it as a powerhouse British brand, with exceptional design at its core,” said Gerry McGovern, Land Rover Design Director and Chief Creative Officer.