RANGE ROVER SPORT SV EDITION 2

THIS RANGIE IS PROOF THAT EMOTION ISN'T EXTINCT YET!

- WORDS ROHIT PARADKAR

The Range Rover Sport SV Edition 2 is the kind of car that makes an entrance, echoing across hillsides and high streets alike and compels everyone to sit up and take notice.

We had tested it back when the monsoon refused to quit - November rain, as Slash would call it - and yet, the weather was perhaps poetic. Because while everything around felt damp and gloomy, this Range Rover was very much alive.

In an era where performance feels algorithmic and exhausts sound like digital approximations of passion, the Range Rover Sport SV Edition 2 is refreshingly mechanical. Its heart is a 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 - yes, a real one, not a boosted four-cylinder pretending to be profound. It sends 635 PS and 750 Nm through all four wheels, hurling two and a half tonnes of Range Rover from 0-100 km/h in 3.9 seconds.

It's not just the pace that impresses; it's the texture of the performance. The low-frequency rumble at idle, the rising snarl under load, the faint tremor through the steering as the turbos wake up - it all feels deliciously analogue in a digital world. This isn’t the sort of SUV that asks you to watch graphs on a screen; it asks you to feel.