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Spiky-Haired Self-Promoter To Destroy Range Rover Sport

Ben Wojdyla — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT

If there's anything that gets our goat, it's self-congratulating, self-aggrandizing newly green sensationalists pulling stunts to get people to fawn all over how awesome they are. Enter Ryan Mickle, a guy who purchased a 2006 Range Rover Sport, one of the most lavish and wasteful SUVs on the market, while enormous tax incentives for small business were still available and is now planning to destroy it however the internet tells him to. What? You mean, we're supposed to buy the line that after he moved to San Francisco he decided it was wasteful and to destroy it to protect mother Earth? Nope, not buying it, not one bit.

When you buy anything as a business asset, you automatically start using that purchase to offset profits, it's called depreciation and it's a great way to avoid paying too much in corporate taxes. If you're good at it, you never have to pay taxes. The thing is, when you do this, you must declare a useful life for the asset and you can only depreciate it during that useful life. No smart business owner simply destroys an asset at then end of life, normally its taken off the depreciation rolls or sold. By pulling off this stunt, Ryan will be fawned over far and wide, and we suspect, will eventually be plugging whatever company he's running with all that free publicity. Brilliant, but trashing a perfectly good, completely written-off Range Rover and painting yourself green while doing it makes us see red. Of course, we could just be cynics and he's on the ups, but we doubt it. [OneFewer.com]

Original photo from Wired

$500,000 Range Stormer Replica For Sale, Perfect For When You Ain't Found Shit In The Desert

Ben Wojdyla — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:40:00 EDT

Range Rover Sport too dull for you? Too many doors? Not in line with your posh Dubai lifestyle? Need something to comb the desert in? Good news friend, West Coast Customs Dubai is reproducing the Range Stormer concept in street legal form. Better news is there's one on sale at Alwan's used cars for a cool $500,000. It seems a member of the Dubai royal family thought the concept was so fly he had West Coast Customs US build him one out of a regular old boring Range Rover Sport. WCC decided maybe there'd be a few more so why not task the Dubai branch to make a couple more. Head down to crazy Al's if you can't live without a two door Stormer of your own.

[AutoTrader Dubai (no, really) via LandRoverChronicles]

2009 Range Rover Sport Facelift?

Mark Arnold — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:30:00 EDT

At first glance, this may appear to be just another box-on-wheels Range Rover, but this is actually supposed to be the 2009 Range Rover Sport. Look closely and you'll notice the front end has been subtly reshaped to feel a bit more like the recent Land Rover LRX Concept. Yawn. So they re-drew a few lines, what's the big deal? According to the spies, the 2009 model will be available with a new 5.0-liter V8.

This new powerplant from Land Rover will have direct injection, and on the Range Rover Sport it'll be fitted with a supercharger. That means the SUV will have 500 HP to go play in the mud with. Of course, most will never see anything more than a cobblestone street or a gravel driveway. The real challenge for the Range Rover Sport will be if it can out-pose those pesky Porsche Cayenne Turbos in the mall parking lot. What we're really excited for is to see if that new V8 makes its way into any Jaguars. Who doesn't want a 500 HP XKR?
[via MotorAuthority]

Limited! Edition! 2008 Range Rover Sport LE!

Mike Spinelli — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:30:50 EDT

For those who want their supercharged SUV with a few tablespoons more luuuuuxury, Range Rover says peep the LE. Only 250 of the tweaked models will make the rounds, each with "flush-fitting front and rear bumpers," an extended rear roof spoiler, body-colored lower side panels, a new rear exhaust treatment, tread strips and 20-inch Stormer wheels. Inside, there's a cold climate option, adaptive front lighting, premium leather, hand-polished oak wooden trim and a center console cooler box. Carpet mats, adaptive cruise control and an AV system for rear-seat passengers are also included. And you thought you had to buy all that stuff in the aftermarket. Psych.

Press Release:

and Rover Offers a Special Version of its Highly Popular Range Rover Sport

Following the huge success of the Range Rover Sport in the U.S. market, Land Rover North America is delighted to announce that a special version known as the LE will go on sale immediately.

The Range Rover Sport LE will be a very exclusive model with only 250 available in North America from August. This special version is equipped with flush-fitting front and rear bumpers, an extended rear roof spoiler, body-colored lower side panels, a new rear exhaust treatment, tread strips and 20-inch Stormer wheels which add to the vehicle's visual appeal.

Inside the Range Rover Sport LE, there is a Luxury Interior Package that includes a cold climate option, adaptive front lighting, premium leather seats, hand-polished oak wooden trim and a center console cooler box. Carpet mats are also included. Furthermore, an audio visual entertainment system for rear seat passengers and adaptive cruise control are also included.

"Land Rover is delighted to offer a limited edition Range Rover Sport for those customers who want something a little different," said Finbar McFall, Vice President of Marketing, Land Rover North America. "With many exclusive features and options, the Range Rover Sport LE will appeal to those consumers who want a level of personalization that reflects their taste and style."

With the legendary on- and off-road prowess of the 2008 Range Rover Sport, the LE features a 4.2-liter Supercharged V8 engine. The permanent four wheel drive system is coupled with Land Rover's proven Terrain Response(TM) system to provide the go-anywhere capability associated with the current Land Rover range.

The Range Rover Sport Supercharged equipped with the Limited Edition Package is priced at $81,450.

Going One Better: Arden Further Tunes the Range Rover Sport

Mike Spinelli — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:00:00 EDT

It seems like only last year that German tuning house Arden released a kit for the Range Rover Sport. Back then, the numbers were impressive (480hp and 472 lbs-ft). But nowadays we hit the snooze button for anything with less than 500 ponies. So Arden went back to Untergath and returned with the AR6, a Range Rover Sport tuner that produces 520 hp and 502 lbs-ft of torque via a blower kit and stainless-steel sport exhaust. It also comes with beefed-up brakes, a body kit only a footballer could love, 22" wheels and the stance of a sumo. We suppose that's more like it.

Related:
Arden Tunes the Range Rover Sport [internal]

More Maximum Overfinch: 440hp Range Rover Sport

Mike Spinelli — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:00:00 EDT

When one becomes a footballer, some acquisitions are mandatory. On the official checklist, just below "trophy wife with a rhymey stripper name and IQ just under Pi" is a juiced-up Range Rover Sport. And the UK's Overfinch has become the more-or-less official supplier of the latter. The company's Rangies have become somewhat legendary in their home country, and the shop has tooled up to meet the widening demand. Classic Driver recently showed up at Overfinch's Solihull plant to check out one of its tweakers, a custom-blue Sport model with 440 hp. Practice those corner kicks, kids; you too might become a prowd owner (and husband of someone named Chynna St. Claire) someday.

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Maximum Overfinch: 500hp Range Rover Sport [internal]