New Range Rover Sport SDV6 vs Porsche Cayenne Diesel

When Land Rover launched the new Range Rover in 2012, people had to recalibrate their expectations of the brand. In its attempt to push the Range Rover even more upmarket, Land Rover created an SUV that not only got Rolls-Royce anxious about its hush-quotient, but also made ATVs sweat about their go-anywhere promise. So, expectations from the next all-new Range Rover – the Sport – are understandably high. To see if the Sport can live up to its name and set a new standard, we took the bread-and-butter RR Sport with the 3-litre V6 diesel to tear up some tarmac and pitted it against Porsche’s cool and capable Cayenne. So did the Sport outdo the sportiest luxury SUV yet? Continued..

When Land Rover launched the new Range Rover in 2012, people had to recalibrate their expectations of the brand. In its attempt to push the Range Rover even more upmarket, Land Rover created an SUV that not only got Rolls-Royce anxious about its hush-quotient, but also made ATVs sweat about their go-anywhere promise. So, expectations from the next all-new Range Rover – the Sport – are understandably high. To see if the Sport can live up to its name and set a new standard, we took the bread-and-butter RR Sport with the 3-litre V6 diesel to tear up some tarmac and pitted it against Porsche’s cool and capable Cayenne. So did the Sport outdo the sportiest luxury SUV yet? Continued..

When Land Rover launched the new Range Rover in 2012, people had to recalibrate their expectations of the brand. In its attempt to push the Range Rover even more upmarket, Land Rover created an SUV that not only got Rolls-Royce anxious about its hush-quotient, but also made ATVs sweat about their go-anywhere promise. So, expectations from the next all-new Range Rover – the Sport – are understandably high. To see if the Sport can live up to its name and set a new standard, we took the bread-and-butter RR Sport with the 3-litre V6 diesel to tear up some tarmac and pitted it against Porsche’s cool and capable Cayenne. So did the Sport outdo the sportiest luxury SUV yet? Continued..

When Land Rover launched the new Range Rover in 2012, people had to recalibrate their expectations of the brand. In its attempt to push the Range Rover even more upmarket, Land Rover created an SUV that not only got Rolls-Royce anxious about its hush-quotient, but also made ATVs sweat about their go-anywhere promise. So, expectations from the next all-new Range Rover – the Sport – are understandably high. To see if the Sport can live up to its name and set a new standard, we took the bread-and-butter RR Sport with the 3-litre V6 diesel to tear up some tarmac and pitted it against Porsche’s cool and capable Cayenne. So did the Sport outdo the sportiest luxury SUV yet? Continued..