Sideways Sport: Time For Tea?
Mike Cross uses drifting to explain more technology most Range Rover Sport drivers won't use
'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?
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!
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?
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.
Didn't Autocar drift a Hearse once? Just sayin I think in that series Sutters drifted a Twizzy.
Yummy mummies will not be drifting in a Waitrose car park near you
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