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The Range Rover Sport arrived just as Britain's Parliament banned fox hunting. Call it fortuitous happenstance. At the precise moment Britain’s shotgun-wielding aristocrats lost their main motivation for chasing each other over hill and dale, the Ford subsidiary came plying more on-road aggression. If these frustrated followers of British blood sports looked upon the new Landie Sport as an opportunity to blow off a little steam in less mucky surrounds, it’s a goal they share with America’s wealthier PTA MILFs. So, does the Sport have what it takes to get the blood pumping for aristocrats on both sides of the Pond?

Inside, there's plenty of timber and hides to remind urban hunter/gatherer types of pastoral pastimes, even when trundling about city centers. Equipped with Rover's must-have luxury package ($3k, my liege), silken cherry wood fillets grace the doors, dash and center console, lightening what would otherwise be a dour exercise in ebony. The main stack is capped with a touchscreen and carpeted in more buttonry than all the hunting jackets in Scarteen. There's a phone pad, switches for dual-zone HVAC supervision, seat heaters, parking distance control, navigation, and controls for the sublime harmon/kardon surround stereo. The list of electronic creature comforts is suitably comprehensive, but activating and tweaking any given feature remains as counter-intuitive as cricket, voice activation or no.

The controls for the Sport’s off-road prowess lie adjacent a small powered cooler (perfect for hunters' flasks of Glenfiddich, vials of deer piss, etc.), nestling underneath Ye Olde Screw-Type Armrests. Owners can manipulate their station in life via the air-suspension rocker switch, or muck about with the Terrain Response's Fisher Price-style controller, girding the beast for whatever topography lies ahead. If it’s gravel, ice, precipitous inclines, mud-- it’s strictly press and play.

Turn a wheel in anger, and the Sport’s steering is as vague as shoulder shrug (largely due to 19" M+S-rated Goodyears). Put your posse in the back, throw the Sport into a corner and you’ll be rolling with the homies, big tyme. The [optional] active anti-sway bars would help matters, but it bears repeating: the Sport isn't as involving on road as it could be, or should be. At least the binders are up to snuff, hauling the Sport back from the brink without hesitation or complaint.

Curb Weight: 5468 lbs.
Engine: 4.4 Liter V8 DOHC
Horsepower: 300hp @ 5500 rpm
Torque: 315 lb-ft @ 4000 rpm
Drive Type: four wheel drive
0 to 60: 8.3 secs.
1/4 Mile: 16.4 secs. @ 85 mph
Price as Tested: $63,550
Top Speed: 130 mph (limited)
Towing Capacity: 7716 lbs
MPG: 14 / 19