Following up on the flagship Land Rover Range Rover is its little sibling with a longer name, the 2023 Land Rover Range Rover Sport. Just like the big model, the Sport is fully redesigned from the ground up, and it features versions of the same powertrains.
Design-wise, the Sport follows the path of the full-size Range Rover while maintaining some unique cues. The whole body is smoothed out with minimalist lines and curves. Great effort was taken to keep body panels, windows, trim and door handles as flush as possible to fit the clean design and for improved aerodynamics. The Range Rover Sport actually has a drag coefficient of 0.29. Among some of the unique design features of the Sport are the extra slim grille and headlights, the latter of which are the most slender lights Land Rover has ever produced. The taillights remain horizontally oriented, unlike the vertical pieces on the big Range Rover. They blend into a trim panel that bears the model’s name. There’s a Dynamic trim for the Range Rover Sport that also gets unique bumpers and copper accents around the body.
The Range Rover Sport’s interior is also similar, but different, to the larger model. It features a 13.7-inch instrument screen and a curved 13.1-inch infotainment touchscreen. The touchscreen floats above the dash and the lower climate controls, which are angled more toward the ceiling than in the flagship Range Rover. There’s a storage pass-through underneath the climate controls, a unique feature to the Range Rover Sport. The dash itself is simple and spare, and air vents are hidden in an alcove that spans the dashboard.
Digging deeper, and the Range Rover Sport features a variety of engines. The two base engines are turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six units with mild-hybrid assist. The standard one makes 355 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque, and the higher-output version makes 395 horsepower and 406 pound-feet. Above that is a plug-in hybrid version. It makes 434 horsepower and…