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Range Rover Sport - for "small" men??

Range Rover Sport - for "small" men??

  • Yes, it is a good addition to the market

    Votes: 1 100.0%

  • No, it's too small to be a real Rangie

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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watto

watto

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I parked next to a Range Rover Sport tonight, with the 4.2L S'charged V8. (Unfortunately didn't have my camera, damn).

As I was parking, I thought it was a normal Rangie model... Until I got out of my car... First thing I noticed was that my head was above the roof line "That's odd" I said to myself... Then I saw it was lower to the road, "Interesting"... Finally, I noticed that it was far too short to be a proper Range Rover, then it clicked, one check of the boot and I saw 'Sport Supercharged'

Like Jezza said in that episode, you'd pull up next to a normal Range Rover and feel small... I can see what he meant, it is bloody small for a Range Rover!

I honestly can't see the point of it, seems like it's the poor man's Rangie. I really don't think it will be a very successful model for them and no doubt many owners of real Range Rovers will look down on Sport owners as if they are plagued...

So, nothing like some healthy debate, what do you think?
 
I voted that it is good for the market, simply because, that's where the demand is. People want Four Wheel Drives (There is nothing sporty about anything that size, therefore I will never subscribe to the American term SUV) and they want sporty flashy looks. The Rangie sports differences in height and the cabin layout will simply attract all the posers. It may not be better than a normal Rangie, but it's what the people want.

I don't see them as a poor man's Rangie, in fact, I think if I was buying in that market, I'd buy a sport, because I'm never going to take it off road, and the improved handling and the lower body/centre of gravity suits the city a lot better.
 
I think the RR Sport makes sense in the world we live in - All they have done is made a model for the people who won't go offroad and would rather have some sporty onroad qualities. It still has the luxury of a normal RR but lets face it, MOST people dont need to be equipped with such a large car for offroad travel when they spend most of the time in the suburbs.

Still, nuthin beats a Vogue...btw ur lucky to see a RR Sport in Melbourne...we get none of em here :(
 
I've always seen Range Rovers as being part of the rare breed of trucks that you can buy off the lot and take off roading that day (like Jeeps or a H-1 Hummer). Then again, maybe this is Ford's atempt to make RR more "mainstream".

On the subject of SUVs: Only idiots and soccer mommies drive "SUVs". Anyone who really uses them calls them trucks. Or rigs, depending on the amount of modification.
 
don't exactly know how small the RR sport is but I drove past one the other day and I could recognize it a mile away... it was just different for some reason, doesn't have the normal range rover stance
 
I have one in my Perfect xx (insert any number between 5 and 50) car garage.

Just to pull my boat (that would also be part of the parallel Universe I'm currently dreaming of...) for wakeboarding

Buba
 
flyingfridge said:
I voted that it is good for the market, simply because, that's where the demand is. People want Four Wheel Drives (There is nothing sporty about anything that size, therefore I will never subscribe to the American term SUV) and they want sporty flashy looks. The Rangie sports differences in height and the cabin layout will simply attract all the posers. It may not be better than a normal Rangie, but it's what the people want.

I don't see them as a poor man's Rangie, in fact, I think if I was buying in that market, I'd buy a sport, because I'm never going to take it off road, and the improved handling and the lower body/centre of gravity suits the city a lot better.
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What he said.
 
Re: Range Rover Sport - for "small" men??

watto said:
I really don't think it will be a very successful model for them and no doubt many owners of real Range Rovers will look down on Sport owners
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I quite like it. We've got a big ol' proper Range Rover and I drive that sometimes and it's excellent, I've seen two Sports when I've been out in it and I havn't felt like looking down on them or sniggering. Its just another Range Rover. Of course thats on the road, now if someone turned up off-road in one well thats a different matter, because it's too low down.
 
YF19pilot said:
I've always seen Range Rovers as being part of the rare breed of trucks that you can buy off the lot and take off roading that day (like Jeeps or a H-1 Hummer). Then again, maybe this is Ford's atempt to make RR more "mainstream".

On the subject of SUVs: Only idiots and soccer mommies drive "SUVs". Anyone who really uses them calls them trucks. Or rigs, depending on the amount of modification.
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Or you could be a wanker.

Here's a run down on real terminology

Four Wheel Drive: Wagon shaped High Riding vehicle with Four Wheel Drive

Truck: Large Load Carrying Vehicle with a Tray, Trailer, or boxback. Cabin is separated from the load area.

SUV: Sports Utility Vehicle. I don't know what you Americans have got into your heads, but there is nothing sporty about a fucking GM Tahoe or a Ford Explorer or an Escalade. They are Four Wheel Drives. Nothing that size is sporty in any way. Not even a Cayenne or a RR Sport. Now England seems to be catching on to this crass, innacurate Americanisation. Piss off! SUV is an imagination thing made up by high little rednecks in their gun trucks.
 
problem is that LandRover is making their other cars good enough so you'll forget about the Range Rover. :p
 
I think the RR sport is good, yes it's smaller than the normal RR, but it is a class lower down. It hunts after the Cayennes, X5's and Touareg's of this world. It makes sense to make the car a bit smaller, since normally not more than one person will be in it anyway. The offroad- capabilities of the RR are still beter than the X5 and other SUV's.
 
flyingfridge said:
YF19pilot said:
I've always seen Range Rovers as being part of the rare breed of trucks that you can buy off the lot and take off roading that day (like Jeeps or a H-1 Hummer). Then again, maybe this is Ford's atempt to make RR more "mainstream".

On the subject of SUVs: Only idiots and soccer mommies drive "SUVs". Anyone who really uses them calls them trucks. Or rigs, depending on the amount of modification.
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Or you could be a wanker.

Here's a run down on real terminology

Four Wheel Drive: Wagon shaped High Riding vehicle with Four Wheel Drive

Truck: Large Load Carrying Vehicle with a Tray, Trailer, or boxback. Cabin is separated from the load area.

SUV: Sports Utility Vehicle. I don't know what you Americans have got into your heads, but there is nothing sporty about a fucking GM Tahoe or a Ford Explorer or an Escalade. They are Four Wheel Drives. Nothing that size is sporty in any way. Not even a Cayenne or a RR Sport. Now England seems to be catching on to this crass, innacurate Americanisation. Piss off! SUV is an imagination thing made up by high little rednecks in their gun trucks.
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Believe me, rednecks aren't the ones who came up with that term (and I agree about those trucks in particular). Before they were called "suv's" they were called trucks (and rightly so, since they were built on a truck chasis). Maybe the reason the jerks in marketing call it an SUV is because they think that only rednecks drive trucks, but they also want to appeal, and because these vehicles are used in off roading (which is a motorsport) they can call them "sport". Kinda like saying, ricers use civics for racing, so maybe we can call it a sport economy rather than just compact car.

And believe me, noone in "mainstream" pop culture America would want anything to do with something even remotely associated with rednecks. That's why racing isn't as popular as it could be, they think everyone in racing is a racist backwoods redneck hillbilly with no teeth and a bad stench.[/b]
 
YF19pilot said:
And believe me, noone in "mainstream" pop culture America would want anything to do with something even remotely associated with rednecks. That's why racing isn't as popular as it could be, they think everyone in racing is a racist backwoods redneck hillbilly with no teeth and a bad stench.[/b]
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Too bad NASCAR is now the most popular sport in America, in terms of people watching it on TV and buying limited-edition Dale Earnhardt Jr. Collectible Buckets from KFC drive-thrus from their limited-edition Tony Stewart Monte Carlo SS's while sporting stylish limited-edition Jeff Gordon sunglasses and matching 24 baseball caps.
I may be wrong. No NASCAR fan likes more than one driver, apparently.

Anyway, the Range Rover Sport is going to be bought up by only yuppies who will then proceed to chase the Lexus SUV drivers off the road* because they're too busy chasing BMW drivers off the road who are in turn too busy chasing Honda owners off the road who are too busy chasing random people off the road. That's my fearless prediction, anyway.

*While avoiding the gangstas in their Hummer H2's with 24's, foshizzle.
 
I have happened to sit inside both the Supercharged and the normal Range Rover HSE. The differences are slight. Mostly in quality as the range rover hse is more like an offroad limo, while the supercharged is a teeeeny bit smaller with slightly crappier interior materials. But I like em both.
 
But you like the old ML which is believed to be worse than anything in that market apart from the Grand Cherokee maybe ;) I am speaking about build quality by the way ;) ;)
 
flyingfridge said:
I voted that it is good for the market, simply because, that's where the demand is. People want Four Wheel Drives (There is nothing sporty about anything that size, therefore I will never subscribe to the American term SUV) and they want sporty flashy looks. The Rangie sports differences in height and the cabin layout will simply attract all the posers. It may not be better than a normal Rangie, but it's what the people want.

I don't see them as a poor man's Rangie, in fact, I think if I was buying in that market, I'd buy a sport, because I'm never going to take it off road, and the improved handling and the lower body/centre of gravity suits the city a lot better.
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I feel like I'm always agreeing with you dude. :D

If there's a market the sport then why not? Variety is the spice of life. 8)
 
Land Rovers built its name on off-road superiority. They have nothing to prove in that market. If I needed an off-roader, a Range Rover would be on the top of my list.

Land Rover needed something in their lineup that is more road oriented. This is where the Range Rover Sport fills in the niche. With so many road going SUV's on the market, Land Rover needed something more specialised for that. The Sport also has styling that appeals more to the younger market as well. I think it's a brilliant package.
 
Militant-Grunt said:
I have happened to sit inside both the Supercharged and the normal Range Rover HSE. The differences are slight. Mostly in quality as the range rover hse is more like an offroad limo, while the supercharged is a teeeeny bit smaller with slightly crappier interior materials. But I like em both.
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Isint the RR Sport interior basically the same as the LR3 interior?
 
the RR sport is also good offroad, making it a damn good all-rounder.
 
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