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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