And despite its smooth ride the Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged delivers secure and reasonably entertaining handling abilities.
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The 2014 Land Rover Range Rover Sport looks like it could do that.
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To further muddy the waters, the Land Rover Range Rover Sport looks like a racier rendition of the non-Sport Range Rover.
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Case in point is the Land Rover Range Rover Sport, which we recently took through its paces in its top Supercharged version.
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This 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Sport HSE was no exception.
Also receiving awards are the Chevrolet Volt, Hyundai Equus, Land Rover Range Rover, Lexus IS, MINI Countryman, Nissan Armada, Porsche Cayenne, Scion xB, Suzuki Kizashi and Volkswagen GTI.
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Recipients on the upscale end of the price spectrum are the Audi A7, Chrysler 300 and Hyundai Azera sedans and the Infiniti JX35 and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque SUVs.
But while those models may be able to run rings around the Land Rover Range Rover Sport Supercharged on an autocross track, neither will be able to outrun its 510 raging horses.
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New vehicles for 2012 include chic budget-minded models like the Chevrolet Sonic and Fiat 500, distinctively designed cars like the Hyundai Veloster and Volkswagen Beetle and upscale entries including the Buick Verano and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque.
The Ford Focus, Hyundai Elantra and Volkswagen Passat are the three finalists for North American Car of the Year, and the BMW X3, Honda CR-V and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque are finalists for North American Truck of the Year.
Inside, the Land Rover Range Rover Sport is all business, with legible gauges and straightforward buttons, switches and dials on the dashboard, console and steering wheel for most functions, with a large LED touchscreen on the center stack used for audio and navigation system operations.
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Land Rover's Range Rover Sport uses anti-sway bars that are engaged only when sensors detect that the vehicle is going through a fast turn.
The same may well be true for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the UK-based Tata Motors subsidiary that hopes to boost the profits it makes from both Range Rover and Land Rover vehicles.
Last week, Land Rover unveiled a convertible version of its Range Rover Evoque at the Geneva motor show.
For Land Rover, the product range includes the Freelander 2, Discovery 4, Range Rover Evoque, Range Rover Sport and the all-new Range Rover.
But he failed to sort out Jaguar's weak product range or Land Rover's lousy factories.
Across the facility's muddy tracks and bloody bog what the Jaguar Land Rover guys call the "Developing World" section the light-weighted Range Rover feels likewise transformed, easily surging up steep hills and effortlessly carrying its own momentum across fields of wheel-sucking muck.
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"This car will be our best-selling model, " he says in an interview with BBC News, predicting that it will outsell Land Rover's Freelander, Discovery and Defender models, as well as the full-size Range Rover and Range Rover Sport.
Similarly, the name Land Rover --and to only a slightly lesser extent, its larger, more expensive cousin, Range Rover --aptly conveys that vehicle's ability to go wherever it likes and handle virtually any terrain.
Some might have an advantage in driving dynamics on the road BMW X6 M and others might have better off-road capabilities Land Rover Defender but, arguably, none thrives in both environments to the degree that the Range Rover Sport does.
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Any new owner will want to ensure that Ford retains an interest in the future of the business, in part because it may be possible to persuade the commission to count Jaguar and Land Rover as part of Ford's bigger and more economical range for the purpose of measuring emissions.
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