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Written by Rowan Horncastle
Jaguar Land Rover is in a bit of a financial quagmire. Thanks to a destructive storm of Brexit, trade tensions with the US, a rapidly falling Chinese market, dropping diesel sales coupled with the costs of certifying to the WLTP standards, plus investing in electrification, a scythe has been taken to its profits. This spiral has resulted in 4,500 redundancies in order save 2.5 billion over 18 months. So, desperately needing to get in the black, what"s the first car JLR is launching after this news? A highly-stylised SUV with a supercharged 5.0-litre V8. Now, we don"t know much about economics, but it sounds like someone in Gaydon has been doing some Top Gear Maths. It"s called the Range Rover Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic Edition, a juiced-up 550bhp Velar that doesn"t give two hoots about brevity or punctuation. Set to be the headline act in the Velar line-up, it"s been developed by Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations. Y"know, that muddled off-shoot that makes either fast JLR products or luxo ones. This, apparently, is both. Autobiography" is a familiar name in Rangey world, traditionally the plushest iteration of a car that"s hardly working class in the first place. Here, the Dynamic"-ness has also been added thanks to JLR"s familiar supercharged V8 engine up front. With 550bhp, it"s comfortably the most powerful Velar on offer and can see off a standstill to 62mph in 4.5 seconds then go on to 170mph while massaging and heating and cooling your buttocks and back.
Date written: 5 Feb 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14749
Jaguar Land Rover is in a bit of a financial quagmire. Thanks to a destructive storm of Brexit, trade tensions with the US, a rapidly falling Chinese market, dropping diesel sales coupled with the costs of certifying to the WLTP standards, plus investing in electrification, a scythe has been taken to its profits. This spiral has resulted in 4,500 redundancies in order save 2.5 billion over 18 months. So, desperately needing to get in the black, what"s the first car JLR is launching after this news? A highly-stylised SUV with a supercharged 5.0-litre V8. Now, we don"t know much about economics, but it sounds like someone in Gaydon has been doing some Top Gear Maths. It"s called the Range Rover Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic Edition, a juiced-up 550bhp Velar that doesn"t give two hoots about brevity or punctuation. Set to be the headline act in the Velar line-up, it"s been developed by Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations. Y"know, that muddled off-shoot that makes either fast JLR products or luxo ones. This, apparently, is both. Autobiography" is a familiar name in Rangey world, traditionally the plushest iteration of a car that"s hardly working class in the first place. Here, the Dynamic"-ness has also been added thanks to JLR"s familiar supercharged V8 engine up front. With 550bhp, it"s comfortably the most powerful Velar on offer and can see off a standstill to 62mph in 4.5 seconds then go on to 170mph while massaging and heating and cooling your buttocks and back.
Date written: 5 Feb 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14749
