2006 NY Auto Show
Range Rover is the most refined, most luxurious and most powerful Range Rover ever. Two new gasoline engines – including a powerful supercharged 4.2-liter – are complemented by fresh exterior design details, a quieter interior and a profusion of new technology.
Range Rover gains two powerful, Jaguar-derived gasoline engines, which offer more performance and are predicted to have better fuel economy than the single outgoing V8. Now heading the line-up is a supercharged 400 bhp 4.2-liter engine, with maximum torque of 420 lb ft.
The new, naturally aspirated 305 bhp SAE 4.4-liter V8 is also quicker and more powerful than the outgoing V8.
Both engines are lightweight and use advanced torque-based engine management systems that, together with drive-by-wire throttle control and variable camshaft phasing (on the naturally aspirated), continually adjust the engine to deliver optimum performance, fuel economy and emissions.
The new engines are matched to the latest-generation six-speed automatic electronically controlled transmission, which offers outstanding smoothness and response.
