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2006 NY Auto Show

2006 New York International Auto Show
Land Rover Range Rover Sport

The Range Rover Sport is the best-performing and best-handling vehicle that Land Rover has ever built. Designed to complement the renowned Range Rover - which continues as the company's flagship - the Range Rover Sport is a completely new vehicle, a more compact, more agile and more performance-oriented SUV.

The top Range Rover Sport model uses a 4.2-liter supercharged 390 bhp V8 engine. Derived from the renowned engine used in Jaguar performance models, it has been specially developed for Land Rover needs. Maximum torque is 410 lb ft, and power and torque are fed, full-time, to all four wheels through a ZF six-speed 'intelligent shift' automatic gearbox. The transmission features sport programming and Land Rover's Command Shift™, which offers manual control of gear changes. Low range is electronically selectable 'on the move', for tough off-roading.

The other engine offered is the Jaguar-derived 300 bhp 4.4-liter normally aspirated V8. It uses the same six-speed ZF automatic gearbox and the same full-time four-wheel-drive system as the supercharged model. Other high-technology features of the powertrain include an electronically controlled center differential, which improves the vehicle's handling both on-and off-road.

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