The recent 2013 Pikes Pike International Hill Climb surely was a successful one for the recently unveiled Range Rover Sport, introduced at the 2013 New York Auto Show, which established the new record for a production-standard Sport Utility Vehicle and broke the long standing record for any kind of production-standard vehicle on the famous 12.42-mile Colorado mountain’s hill road, and here is a new and very professional official video celebrating the achievement.
Powered by a 5.0-litre supercharged petrol V8 engine producing 510 horsepower and driven on the record run by American competition and stunt driver Paul Dallenbach, the Range Rover Sport completed the climb and all of its 156 corners with a time of 12 minutes and 35.61 seconds, at an average speed of 59.17 mph (95.23 km/h). The record-setting vehicle avtually altered from production specification only in the fitment of a roll cage and harness seatbelts, which are mandatory to meet racing safety requirements.
Beside the supercharged 5.0-litre V8 petrol engine, the Range Rover Sport is also available on the market with a 3.0-litre V6 diesel engine producing 292 horsepower, but in early 2014 a 3.0-litre V6 diesel unit developing 258 hp and a high performance 4.4-litre V8 diesel engine delivering 339 horsepower are also supposed to join the fold. All petrol and diesel engines in the new Range Rover Sport are paired with the advanced electronically controlled ZF 8HP708-speed automatic gearbox. Designed and engineered at Land Rover’s development centres in the UK, the model is produced in their manufacturing facility at Solihull, UK.
from EUROCARBLOG
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