RE: Sideways Sport: Time For Tea?

RE: Sideways Sport: Time For Tea?

Friday 19th December 2014

Sideways Sport: Time For Tea?

Mike Cross uses drifting to explain more technology most Range Rover Sport drivers won't use



Sport by name if not necessarily by nature, the Land Rover Discovery Sport we drove just the other week isn't really very, well, sporty. Unless you count carting the kids to the leisure centre as such.

'Sport' in a Range Rover context does stand a chance of living up to the name, especially in the case of the 550hp, £93K SVR. Yes, the one of the sports car troubling 'ring lap time and here drift proven by JLR dynamics god Mike Cross. Is this ability relevant to the way any owners will actually use their cars? Probably not. Indeed, hopefully not. But then nor is that 'ring lap or, indeed, the low-range gearbox or ability to wade through 850mm of water. Sport owners don't need to do this stuff themselves but it's clearly felt that they take pleasure in knowing they could. If they wanted to. And here Mike Cross tells us about the tech that, were you as talented as he is, would enable you do artful four-wheel drifts in the most eff-off of eff-off Range Rovers.

Argue the merits of this below. What we have here is the delightfully incongruous sight of a Range Rover Sport squatting over its rear axle and carving beautiful four-wheel drifts around Rockingham. There's little you could call delicate about the Sport SVR but in Mike's hands it looks almost balletic, insomuch as a weightlifter might performing Swan Lake in a tutu.

Four-wheel drifts in 550hp V8 SUVs to cross-dressing weightlifters and ballet in one paragraph. Can you tell it's a Friday afternoon?

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NelsonP

Original Poster:

240 posts

138 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Just because its possible, doesn't mean you should. Colin Chapman is rolling in his grave.

CliveM

525 posts

184 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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He might be a driving god etc etc but that video is just embarrassing.

goldblum

10,272 posts

166 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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A weightlifter is very very very unlikely to have the balance and flexibility to be able to perform Swan Lake.

Just saying.

Baryonyx

17,990 posts

158 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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What a hulking turd of a car.

thespannerman

234 posts

122 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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That V8 though!

24630883

12 posts

205 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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My father in-law has one of these on order for a July 15 delivery. He is 71 and the original Driving Miss Daisy so can't see him emulating that drift or Ring time any day soon.

rallycross

12,747 posts

236 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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£93,000 for a status symbol for the orange faced feckless eejits of Essex/Cheshire.

It does sound rather good though with that lovely V8!

Edited by rallycross on Friday 19th December 18:35

Matt UK

17,649 posts

199 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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NelsonP said:
Just because its possible, doesn't mean you should.
I agree. I can't see how setting up a RR to drift around a circuit is doing anything for ride comfort. Which is surely the point of a RR FFS.

BigBo

212 posts

121 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Its a large 4x4, concentrate on making them useful off-road not showing how there made for yummy-mummys or is this in response to that TOWIE jimmy flipping hers?

Evo Sean

223 posts

165 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Surely your not going to debate if this is good or not....we all know its a terrible idea at a fundamental level to 99.5% of people looking to buy a new car, but that's irrelevant. If you want a sports/track car you don't buy a RR Sport.

Its obvious to see there is a market for this type of car. If people part with their cash for this type of thing then that's their own choice. JLR just supply to a demand. It's a business decision based on either making money or raising the profile of the brand, which is working because it's featured on a very popular media website and your all talking about it.

The fact is, it appeals to some and it'l sell.

And I work for JLR!


anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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PH said:
Yes, the one of the sports car troubling 'ring lap time
Sorry, which current sports car that costs £93k is it troubling?

Bencolem

1,013 posts

238 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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No different to some of these ott diving watches some sorts sport (in terms of latent ability)

Furyblade_Lee

4,107 posts

223 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Very well done. Very glad for them. They must be very proud. That is all.

daytona365

1,773 posts

163 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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NEVER give way to these hulks if you can avoid doing so, because sure as damn it mostly they wouldn't give way for you.

Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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daytona365 said:
NEVER give way to these hulks if you can avoid doing so, because sure as damn it mostly they wouldn't give way for you.
PH. Stereotyping Matters.

Surely this car is just as irrelevant as the latest Ferrari or McLaren? Most of those never get used to their full potential and it's unlikely the first owner of this car will either. The third or fourth owner is likely to get it dirty after driving at a million miles an hour and possibly for 100k+ miles too, but the supercars? Perhaps a new indoor cover to protect their purchase while it sleeps hooked up to its trickle charger. So why the venom for something so accessible and usable?

daytona365

1,773 posts

163 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Funnily enough I don't have an issue with supercars, I actually give way for them....But a false tanned ignorant in a nigh on 2 ton bundle of dangerous excess ?............I love stereotyping !!

Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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daytona365 said:
Funnily enough I don't have an issue with supercars, I actually give way for them....But a false tanned ignorant in a nigh on 2 ton bundle of dangerous excess ?............I love stereotyping !!
Haven't you just described the average Murcielago and its occupants?

PompeyM3

1,847 posts

204 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Land Rover make this car as there is an obvious demand for it, as can be seen by the various Porsche, BMW, Merc etc performance SUV's.
There's no doubt the RRS has been a great seller for JLR, which can't be a bad thing.

WokkaWokka

698 posts

138 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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I know a farmer that's just bought one.

He only gets a tan when goes somewhere sunny.

T1berious

2,242 posts

154 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Can't really understand all the hate. Considering they are merely offering what their competitors are doing. Cayenne, X6M, X5M, whatever the go faster Q7 and the AMG M Class all play the same card. Massive SUV with mammoth power for those that want it.

Surely we recognise marketing when we see it? No one in their right mind would use one on the track, let alone as a ring weapon of choice.

It's an advert, I'm pretty sure any highly skilled driver can make any car with sufficient power go sideways. smile

Didn't Autocar drift a Hearse once? Just sayin smile I think in that series Sutters drifted a Twizzy.

Yummy mummies will not be drifting in a Waitrose car park near you smile