Range Rover Sport SVR at Goodwood – more SVR models on the way from JLR

Range Rover Sport SVR on the hillclimb at Goodwood

Last week, on the run-up to the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Land Rover revealed the most powerful road car they’ve ever created – the Range Rover Sport SVR. The Sport SVR comes with the 5.0 litre V8 Supercharged petrol engine from cars like the Jaguar XFR-S and XJR, delivering 542bhp and the promise of performance figures that come within shouting distance of the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, complete with a thunderous V8 soundtrack and most of its off-road abilities intact.

But after speculating on what Land Rover would call their range topping Sport – R, RS, SO or something else – that turned in to ‘something else’ with the arrival of a new JLR moniker – SVR.

It seems that all future JLR Special Operation vehicles – for both Jaguar and Land Rover – will wear the SVR badge, so you can say goodbye to monikers like XFR-S and look forward to SVR proclaiming something special – a bit like AMG with knobs on.

That said, we did scour the Jaguar Project 7 – another Special Operations car debuting at Goodwood – for any sign of an SVR badge, but couldn’t find one.

But it does look like Jaguar are planning to fit the F-Type Coupe with the 567bhp version of the supercharged V8 from the Project 7 car, and we assume that will become the new range-topping F-Type as the Jaguar F-Type Coupe SVR.

So as well as the arrival of the Range Rover Sport SVR and the F-Type Project 7 in 2015, we should also see the F-Type SVR on sale too.

By Cars UK