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For The Range Rover Sport is comfortable, spacious, desirable and extremely good on- and off-road

Against It suffers from a bit of a 'footballers' car' image, and doesn't have the class of the Range Rover. It's not as smooth riding, either.

Land Rover Range Rover Sport 4x4
33 5stars

The Range Rover Sport has awesome presence, and it's almost as spacious as the Range Rover. It's quicker and less anti-social as fuel consumption and emissions are improving.

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There are 3 Land Rover Range Rover Sport versions available

4x4 3.0 SDV6 SE 5dr £50,220
What Car? says:3 stars out of 5
4x4 3.0 SDV6 Autobiography Sport 5dr £68,020
What Car? says:3 stars out of 5
4x4 5.0 V8 Autobiography Sport 5dr £76,330
What Car? says:3 stars out of 5

Buyer's notes

Target Price team says:

The Range Rover Sport is Land Rover's answer to driver-focused 4x4s from the likes of BMW and Porsche. The supercharged model best lives up to the 'Sport' name, with sledgehammer power allowing two tonnes of 4x4 to accelerate at a barely credible rate.

That's fine for the money-no-object darlings of football's Premier League who are among the Sport's leading customers. For the rest of us, the entry-level 3.0-litre diesel brings reasonable running costs (in relative terms) without making you feel you've sacrificed all semblance of performance. Every model performs well on- and off-road, as well as having a trim befitting of the car.

Beware of niggling problems, though. While much improved, Land Rover's old reliability issues haven't disappeared completely. One more thing – make sure you test drive a standard Range Rover as well as the Sport. You may prefer its more genteel nature.

Reader test team says:

Land Rover Range Rover Sport 4x4 5.0 V8 Supercharged HSE 5dr

What a fantastic car! Picked it up in April brand new after trading in my fourth Freelander 2 HSE - the Freelander has now become exceptionally dated…

Laurie Mackrell

5 out of 5 stars

Land Rover Range Rover Sport 4x4 3.6 TDV8 HSE 5dr

I bought the 3.6 TDi in Nov. 07. Great car, not as practical as the Discovery (the boot is small) but great to drive, lots of torque and will eat the…

David Harbour

3 out of 5 stars

Land Rover Range Rover Sport 4x4 2.7 TDV6 HSE 5dr

I acquired the car on lease 3July 2008 on 6 July after 314 miles the anti tilt light glowed orange. The local dealer told me to come in Monday but it…

Michael Rule

3 out of 5 stars

Land Rover Range Rover Sport 4x4 2.7 TDV6 SE 5dr

Yesterday,(Saturday) my wife anD I visited a Landrover dealer to potentialy buy a RangeRover Sport. To my amazment, in the current climate, we were…

graham molloy

2 out of 5 stars
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