2007 Land Rover Range Rover Sport

2007 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Review Summaries

What reviewers liked most about the Land Rover Range Rover Sport:

The brakes are aggressive-maybe even too ag-gressive-at low speed. Then again, they're calibrated to provide the confidence you crave when you're screaming along the autobahn at a buck twenty and change..

-- Automobile

...the most impressive thing about the car-there's virtually no body roll. The secret? Hydraulic motors powered by an engine-driven pump that adjust the stiffness of the antiroll bars in response to cornering loads. The computer also modifies the stiffness of the air springs to enhance compliance over bumpy roads..

-- Automobile

In two days of off-road excursions in a variety of hostile terrains, the [Range Rover] Sport never seemed at a loss..

-- Los Angeles Times

Ride comfort is augmented by sport bucket seats up front and comfortable outboard seating positions in back, although the rear seatbacks do not recline as they do in some inexpensive SUVs..

-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Rattle off the hardware beneath and the Sport can seem like a bit of a control freak..

-- The Car Connection

What reviewers liked least about the Land Rover Range Rover Sport:

Is it fast? Well, let's just say "Sport" is a bit of a stretch. ... 5,468 pounds in the HSE and 5,670 pounds for the supercharged model. That's fatty-fatty 4x4..

-- Los Angeles Times

... it can be a little rumbly-jumbly, with side-to-side sniggles..

-- The Car Connection

Land Rover Range Rover Sport Comparisons:

Like the 4.8-liter version of the BMW X5 and the Porsche Cayenne, the Range Rover Sport isn't an SUV so much as it's a fresh take on the grand-touring machine..

-- Automobile

Situated in the product lineup between the LR3 and the flagship Range Rover, the [Range Rover] Sport neatly hybridizes the attributes of both..

-- Los Angeles Times

It has more legroom and nearly as much head, shoulder and cargo room as the much-larger Range Rover..

-- Los Angeles Times

Best one-liner about the Land Rover Range Rover Sport:

... if you're the sort who occasionally likes to chase sports cars on mountain roads, you'd want the Range Rover Sport..

-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

... it's clearly the sexed-up, hormonal progeny of the patrician Range Rover ....

-- The Car Connection