Be afraid, be very afraid: there’s a new Range Rover Sport SV coming

Batten down the hatches, secure any loose furniture and pack your precious chattels into an underground bunker: Range Rover has confirmed a successor to the unhinged SVR is coming. Get ready for the Range Rover Sport SV.

We know nothing about the new high-performance Rangie Sport other than the fact it’ll be revealed at the end of next month, be available to purchase on 'invitation only', be limited in numbers and offer “a number of innovative world-first, sector first and Range Rover-first technologies”. These technologies will apparently “unlock the assertive model’s full performance potential”.

The old Range Rover Sport SVR certainly had a lot of performance, or what we technically referred to at the time as “excellent, daft and bloody good fun”. That car used a 567bhp version of JLR’s fire-breathing 5.0-litre supercharged V8, to record a 0-62mph time of just 4.5s and top speed of 174mph.

Quite what trick, modern technologies the new RRS SV will deploy is anyone’s guess, and the question of why the world of 2023 needs yet another heavy, performance-orientated SUV is another story altogether.

So we wait. “The new Range Rover Sport SV will be revealed on 31 May: the fastest, most dynamic and technologically advanced Range Rover Sport ever.” Brace positions…

Pictured above: 2018 Range Rover Sport SVR