Yahoo Autos Range Rover SV Coupe: An Ideal Two-Door Land Rover
Somewhere along the way, the word "coupe" lost all meaning. Once reserved for sporty two-door fixed-roof vehicles, today the term is applied to all kinds of atrocious non-coupes, from four-door sedans with slightly-swoopier rooflines to hatchback SUVs that are working way too hard to try not to be SUVs.
Thank goodness, then, for Land Rover, and the new Range Rover SV Coupe.
Based on the excellent Range Rover platform, the SV Coupe wears familiar styling but an almost completely new set of aluminum bodywork: Only the hood and lower tailgate are shared with the four-door Range Rover.
And with the 5.0-liter supercharged V8 from Jaguar-Land Rover's toy box, tuned here to make 577 horsepower and 516 lb-ft of torque, the SV Coupe is a performer, too: Land Rover says the two-door will sprint from 0-60 mph in just 5.0 seconds, on to a top speed of 165 mph. That makes this the most powerful of the current Range Rovers, and the quickest Range Rover variant ever built.
You want luxury? The SV Coupe's frameless doors power-shut; a panoramic sunroof illuminates either single-tone or new contrasting front-rear seat upholstery. Eight gloss or matte exterior colors are available, along with a new two-tone option with a contrasting hue in the inset defined by the shoulder line and front fender scoop.
The SV Coupe will be hand-assembled at Jaguar-Land Rover's SVO technical center in England. Which, as you may have surmised, means this delightful two-door SUV will be exceedingly rare: Just 999 examples will be built, each custom-ordered, at a starting price of $295,000.
That, sadly, puts the SV Coupe miles out of reach for nearly all of us. But we have to applaud Land Rover's continued dedication to the tw0-door SUV. If nothing else, Land Rover is working hard to remind the rest of the industry what the word "coupe" really means.
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