Range Rover SV Coupe: Geneva 2018
Gaydon returns to its roots with a two-door Range Rover. Except it's got 565hp. And costs £240,000
The limited edition model (999 examples globally) unveiled at Geneva will be hand-built by JLR's Special Vehicle Operations, and marks the first time that the new division has endeavoured to remake a current Land Rover product in styling terms. Clearly the foundation is the Range Rover, although with the exception of the bonnet and lower tailgate all the Coupe's exterior panels are new, including the front and rear bumpers.
It's also the first one you can spec with 23-inch wheels, which rather gets to the meat of what the Coupe is all about. Inside, it has been taken "to a new level of luxury: accommodation comparable to private jets and yachts". What that means is that front seats adjust 20 ways, the back seats 10 ways, they all come clad in specially selected semi-aniline leather (from a single tannery) and feature bespoke foam and a unique graduated diamond quilt design. And they're surrounded by wood veneers, multiple 10- and 12-inch touchscreens, a standard panoramic roof and a 23-speaker Meridian sound system. And that's just for starters.
It also qualifies (very marginally) as the fastest full-size Range Rover ever. The Coupe gets the same 565hp 5.0-litre supercharged V8 as the SVAutobiography model, with the same eight-speed ZF 'box and is 8mm lower than a standard car thanks to a bespoke air suspension tune that's intended to make it 'more driver-focused'. It'll still tow 3.5 tonnes though, and wade through 900mm of standing water - it'll just do 165mph as well.
With the full suite of off-road conquering systems onboard (two-speed transfer box, active locking rear diff, Terrain Response 2 etc) expect the Coupe to be no less able than its five-door siblings either. You even get a five-year Care Package which includes servicing and maintenance. So it's just the small matter of that asking price; which is sufficient to buy his and hers Range Rover Sport SVRs - with enough change leftover for a Caterham Seven 310R. But who's counting, eh...
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I love my full size vogue, so this is awesome in my book.
I know that lots of very wealthy people will buy it. But 240k is too much.
that's market forces though.
for 240k, i'd buy a 458 and a vogue autobiography instead.
Copy, paste, change the stitching & out the door....
Edit: even in the first press shot with the door open, it looks like they forgot the slab of cheap plastic on the lower seat end, and some odd stretch marks on the leather next to it!? And why not have all the impressive screens turned on? Just looks like lots of dark spaces & missing detail.
I know sometimes ''less is more'' but it all looks very dark & drab on a car for the rich yoof of the Arabian states....Someone in their Marketing/PR needs a good shake...
Also will keep some of these customers who will self-drive, away from the Cullinan.
I think that sums it up - a complete mash up or bitsa car
why put lots of effort into luxury rear seats where you have to climb past the front seat to get to them
the front end looks awful - it has got bigger and bigger and now looks a bit like a snow cornice sliding off the front of the car
I get why marketing would do it - and I am sure that they will sell it, but couldn't be much further from the origins of a RR I assume they only keep the 4x4 system because it is easy to swallow the cost - no-one is going to be turning up on a shoot or towing the cattle to market in that!
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