The new Range Rover SV Black is a £188k cheery, friendly V8 SUV

We said its sportier sibling looked like an extra from a Guy Ritchie film. Well, meet the main antagonist: this is the new Range Rover SV Black, the big boi version of RR’s new ‘Black’ trim level.

Looks cheery, and friendly, and – wait, no, not that. The opposite of that. Terrifyingly clad in jet black, the SV Black is not here to listen to your troubles or offer a shoulder to cry on. It is here to course 607bhp through its gloss black veins.

And a bit of bass through your body, too. Range Rover said all Range Rover SV models – including this Black – now come as standard with a new ‘Sensory Floor’ that complements its BASS (‘Body-And-Soul-Seat’) tech.

In short, RR has fitted transducers into the floor as well as the seats, to literally pump music into your very body, “allowing occupants to physically feel the music”. Or calm you once you’ve been pumped full of choons, because there’s a set of wellness programmes plumbed in, too.

And a socking great BMW-sourced V8. The RR SV Black gets the 607bhp mild-hybrid 4.4-litre twin-turbo eight-pot, good for 0-62mph in 4.5s. Which is fast for a blacked-out stately home on wheels.

Like the Range Rover Sport SV Black we literally saw last week and definitely didn’t confuse this one for, the RR SV Black gets the same Narvik Gloss Black finish, black mesh, lots of black detailing, 23in black wheels hiding black calipers, black leather, black veneer and a satin black finish for the gearlever. Sensing a theme here. You might have also seen the same treatment on the wide-arched Defender Octa Black. 

You’ll be able to spec the Rangie in either five-seat SWB form, or four/five-seat LWB spec. The SWB SV Black starts from £188,025, while the SV Black LWB kicks off at a cool £204,925.

Don’t want the full antagonist spec? There’s an SV ‘Intrepid’ and ‘SV Serenity’, which sound a little less like Guy Ritchie movie villains.