Range Rover
Among the 10 Range Rover entries in the MotorJury library, the Range Rover Sport holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2005. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Range Rover Sport properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Aston Martin Aston Martin Vantage, the Audi AG Audi Q7, the Bugatti Bugatti Veyron — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Range Rover Sport reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol: / 4.2 L Supercharged Jaguar AJ-V8 / 4.4 L Jaguar AJ-V8 / 5.0 L Jaguar AJ-V8 / 5.0 L Supercharged Jaguar AJ-V8 / Diesel: / 2.7 L Ford Lion V6 / 3.0 L Ford Lion V6 / 3.6 L Fo; drive goes through 8-speed automatic / 6-speed ZF automatic / 6-speed ZF HP28 automatic; the layout is Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Range Rover's own catalogue the Range Rover Sport sits alongside the Range Rover Evoque Convertible Concept, the Range Rover GT, the Range Rover Sport Series III, the Range Rover Velar. It was succeeded by the Range Rover (L460) (for the 7-seater version). Design is credited to Gerry McGovern (2nd and 3rd generation). Assembly is recorded at designer = Gerry McGovern (2nd and 3rd generation).
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.
A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Range Rover Sport was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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Contemporaries from other marques, introduced within three years of this car.