Range Rover Sport SV vs Audi RS6 GT: track time in two practical fast cars

A hearty, slightly nervy welcome back to a pair of performance heavyweights: the Range Rover Sport SV and the Audi RS6 GT.

The former is the fastest version of Range Rover’s sportiest SUV, a follow-up to the outrageous previous-generation Sport SVR. The latter is a run-out version of Audi’s über go-faster estate, complete with bespoke bodywork and manually adjustable coilover suspension. Each costs over £170,000.

Are these two silly, admittedly brilliantly engineered titans proper performance cars, though, or just jack-of-all-trades machines that don’t quite hit the mark?

Over to Top Gear's Ollie Kew to find out. With a little help from The Stig…