Range Rover Sport 2023 First Edition P530 - OFF-ROAD
352023 Range Rover Sport Proves Coolly Capable On- or Off-Road. The slightly smaller Range Rover offers a boosted V-8 and several smooth hybrid options. If Land Rover had really wanted to impress us with the agile and capable nature of the redesigned 2023 Range Rover Sport, the automaker would have programmed the navigation to do on purpose what we did by accident. After missing an exit on a roundabout outside Madrid, we ended up deep in a labyrinth of Spanish village streets that got ever more narrow and twisting until we squeezed through an alley and found ourselves blocked by a Mitsubishi with a flat tire. Backing down slippery cobblestones and managing to turn the Sport around in a space barely the width of an Iberian ham highlighted the Range Rover's rear-wheel steering, multiple camera angles, and air-cushioned ride in a way all the off-road obstacles and sweeping canyon roads earlier in the drive could only hint at. The Range Rover Sport is a big beast, sharing its wheelbase and width with the Range Rover, just a little shorter in length and lighter in price, sporty people apparently having less luggage and less ready cash. Cachet, however, it provides in large doses, with an upright but swept-back profile and clean sides unblemished by gaudy emblems or excessive body lines. Discussing design on SUVs can be a bit like picking tile—it's a brick, choose a color—and the Sport is indeed brickish, but the jaunty rear spoiler and squared-off exhaust tips balance out the front end's snootiness with a promise of energetic performance.