Edition One Previews Range Rover Sport SV You’ll Be Able to Buy — in 2025
No, the new Sport SV is not an electric Range Rover. It’s not even an electric Land Rover, technically. But it is electrified, and the mild-hybrid twin-turbocharged V-8 powertrain should make it electrifying. The Sport SV’s 626 horsepower betters the outgoing Sport SVR’s by 51 hp, and Range Rover claims it’ll catapult the Sport SV to 60 mph in just 3.6 seconds with a top speed of 180 mph.
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Performance and Weight Savings
Range Rover is producing only a small, unspecified-unit run of the SV Edition One — and they’re all spoken for, so no, you can’t have one. But aside from unique branding on the front splitter, center console, sill plates and puddle lamps, expect the full production run of Range Rover Sport SVs to mirror the special edition version.
The twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 makes 553 pounds-feet of torque except during Dynamic Launch Mode, when it temporarily ratchets that up to 590 pounds-feet. Like all Range Rover Sports, the SV backs that up with an eight-speed automatic transmission sending power to all four wheels.
Range Rover takes its SV branding seriously, so the high-performance Sport model gets unique tuning for its all-wheel-drive, rear-wheel steering and brake-based torque-vectoring systems, as well as tweaks to the locking rear differential. It sits between 0.4 and 1.0 inch lower than other Range Rover Sports, depending on drive mode, and boasts Range Rover’s 6D Dynamics suspension, which uses hydraulically linked dampers to combat pitch and roll. The SV also gets a unique rear subframe and revised suspension links. Michelin Pilot Sport All-Season 4 tires mount to all four corners, 285s up front and 305s out back. Range Rover claims these tires will generate 1.1 Gs of cornering grip, an eyebrow-raising Ferrari number that’s questionable for something this big no matter how wide its tires or how trick its suspension.
SV buyers looking to cut weight can do so in some significant ways. The available 23-inch carbon-fiber wheels save a claimed total of 78 pounds over the standard aluminum pieces, and optional carbon-ceramic brakes with Brembo calipers cleave another 75 pounds of unsprung weight. The latter measure a staggering 17.3 inches up front and 15.4 inches out back.
Styling
All Sport SVs get larger nostrils in the front fascia, tweaked rocker panels and carbon-fiber tips on the four exhaust finishers. The hood, too, is carbon fiber, and Range Rover offers the option of an exposed strip down the middle. The lightweight weave also makes up the grille surround, hood and fender vents, and the Range Rover script.
Inside, bucket seats with satin-finished carbon-fiber backs are available in a choice of natural leather or synthetic leather made of polyurethane. Meridian supplies the 29-speaker audio system, complete with seats that pump vibrations timed with the music directly into occupants’ backs.
Pricing and Availability
Vehicle brands don’t generally share how much they’ve invited their favorite customers to spend on limited-run models, so we don’t know Edition One pricing. But pricing for the new Range Rover Sport SV should roughly mirror the outgoing Range Rover Sport SVR’s, which starts around $118,000. The Edition One makes up the entirety of the 2024 Range Rover Sport SV run, so buyers who didn’t claim one will be waiting until 2025 to get into a new Sport SV. Based on the Edition One, it may be worth the wait.
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