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It sounds strange, but I quite like the gearbox on the new Range Rover Sport. This, the TDV6 model, did something rather peculiar. Every upshift was as if the gearbox was massaging the 2993cc longitudinal V6 motor, gently telling it to do its bidding. The ZF sourced six-speed torque convertor is slow on the downshifts, yet there wasn’t an explosion every time you did it, like on, say, the Audi Q7 4.2 TDI. It just went about its job smoothly and effortlessly.
It was one of the many highlights of a day-long drive, the RR Sport playing chaperone to the mighty Audi RS5; it managed to stay away from the limelight and still impress. The previous offering had a TDV8 option, one that no longer powers the Sport; instead you get the choice of two power options for the diesel and two for the petrol. What we got was the higher powered TDV6, twin-turbos et al.
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