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THE
AUTOMOTIVE
AWARDS
CELEBRATING THE CARS (AND A FEW OTHER COOL PIECES OF GEAR)
THAT MOVED US IN 2023
By Matt Bubbers
Range Rover Sport SV EDITION ONE
Wins the overkill award for offering carbon-fibre wheels on an SUV
IN A YEAR WHERE WE WANTED — MORE THAN PERHAPS
anything else — to just go out and have fun, the Range Rover Sport SV EDITION ONE delivered. In fact, it over-delivered. Just look at it: an elegant, slab-sided sculpture of a thing, hunkered down with those flared wheel arches. “Let’s go!”, it bellowed when it was unveiled back in May.
We love it — particularly the sheer overkill of putting an ultra-light set of 23-inch carbon-fibre wheels on an SUV (a world first, we might add). It also comes fitted with carbon brakes and monster eight-piston calipers that look as though they belong on a Boeing. The new “Body and Soul Seats” (BASS) are equally bombastic, each featuring four transducers that give a visceral whomp to every low note from the 29-speaker, 1,430-watt Meridian sound system. And, of course, there’s that 635 horsepower, twin-turbo, 4.4-litre V8 — which makes this the fastest Range Rover ever made. Try not having fun in this thing.
SPECS
ENGINE: 4.4-LITRE TWIN-TURBO V8 POWER: 635 HORSEPOWER
PRICE: SOLD OUT (SORRY)
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