It will likely have BMW power.
April 21, 2023 at 4:02 p.m. ET
After a seemingly endless series of spy photos, the high-performance Range Rover Sport will finally emerge from cover on May 31st. Land Rover’s announcement also includes news about the super SUV’s official name, as it will eschew the ‘SVR’. Suffix of its predecessor to use “SV” in the future. We’ve also been told that it will initially only be sold as an invite-only model in limited quantities.
When it debuts late next month, the new model will be the “fastest, most dynamic and most technologically advanced Range Rover Sport ever”. It will also bring “innovative world-first, industry-first and Range Rover-first technologies,” although Land Rover doesn’t go into details about the technical specifications. It only says that these new extras will “unleash the full performance potential of the confident model”.
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The old SVR used JLR’s own supercharged 5.0-litre V8, but that engine is unlikely to survive in the new SV due to increasingly stringent emissions regulations. The standard Range Rover Sport already uses BMW’s N63 engine, so the top-of-the-line version might also borrow a powertrain from Munich. The SV should bring a healthy boost in performance over the regular model and it will be interesting to see if the Bavarian automaker will allow Land Rover to use an M engine.
If that’s the case, there are two obvious candidates – the S63 and the S68. The former is being phased out by BMW to make way for the latter, which is an all-new engine with mild-hybrid technology but the same twin-turbo 4.4-litre configuration. In models like the 2024 X5/X6 M Competition, it produces up to 614 horsepower and 553 pound-feet (750 Newton-meters) of torque.
With Land Rover saying the SV will be the fastest Range Rover Sport ever, we can expect it to have more power as it’s highly unlikely that the extra power was achieved by making the SUV lighter than its predecessor have been done. In almost all cases, next-gen cars are usually thicker. We remind you that the old supercharged V8 had 567 hp and 515 lb-ft (700 Nm).
The Range Rover Sport SV will face stiff competition after Lamborghini sells an Urus Performante while Aston Martin has the DBX707. There’s also the V12-powered Ferrari Purosangue, although this is positioned in a completely different price bracket.
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