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Miles Per Gallon in the City/Highway: 13/19
Models Available: Range Rover Sport HSE ($56,085); Range Rover Sport Supercharged ($69,085)
Vehicle Type: Sport Utility Vehicles
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Land Rover's Web Site: http://www.landroverusa.com
Land Rover's Phone Number: 1-800-FINE-4WD
All-new model good on-road, too.
By Tom Lankard, NewCarTestDrive.com
Those shoppers have found some competent vehicles, some of which are actually fun to drive. The BMW X5, the Cadillac SRX, the Infiniti FX, the Mercedes-Benz M-Class, and the Porsche Cayenne created a new market: SUV-proportion vehicles that are also sporty, with ride and handling abilities previously unheard of in off-road capable vehicles, and luxurious in trim and features, to boot.
Land Rover has hit this highly competitive, high-price market with two new products for 2006: The Range Rover Supercharged is a full-size Range Rover with the most powerful engine ever in a Land Rover. But it isn't really intended for flicking through a set of esses on a favorite two-lane road.
The 2006 Range Rover Sport has a similar name, but it's a different vehicle. Built on a smaller platform derived from the Land Rover LR3 but with a thoroughly reworked suspension and a unique but instantly recognizable body, the Sport is everything, well almost everything, the Range Rover Supercharged wants to be but isn't. Spirited, sporty, agile, with a snazzy look; OK, maybe not all that snazzy, but for a Range Rover, it's snazzy. It's also something the LR3 doesn't want to be: a Range Rover that's more comfortable on road than off.
Not only does it fit between the LR3 and the full-size Range Rover in terms of form and function, but it also nicely splits the different in price. It's priced about $20,000 under the top Range Rovers and $10,000-$20,000 over comparable LR3s.
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