Local Life - St Helens - February 2018

36
Test Drive
Range Rover Sport
by Tim Barnes-Clay
Now, here’s a question that you might Of course, it’s a Range Rover, so it is well equipped,
not know the answer to but will almost and the interior is of a high quality. The Windsor
certainly have an opinion on. Is the Range Rover leather seats are impeccable - but the Sport is
Sport one of the most influential cars of the modern quite different to the full ‘Range Rover’. There are
era? A decade or so ago it seemed like all the three diesels, two petrols, and even a new hybrid
celebrities were arriving to events in a Range Rover powertrain to choose from - and all are tuned
Sport, and since then the SUV market has exploded.
Now nearly everybody wants one. Furthermore,
almost every manufacturer is now making them.
The Sport is not really a full-blown Range Rover.
It’s cheaper for a start, and comes with five seats,
but it does offer the option of seven. That said, the
additional chairs are tiny and aren’t appropriate for
fitting kids’ car seats. This is a lower, smaller ‘Rangie’,
designed to appeal to a slightly less affluent, but
still successful, crowd. And the focus has moved
from out-and-out luxury to one that is more about
power and pure on-road use.