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2018 Range Rover Sport Coupe Spied Testing On the Nurburgring

Better late than never, Land Rover decided to jump on the coupe-like sport utility vehicle bandwagon. Internally known as the L560, the 2018 Range Rover Sport Coupe has been recently caught testing on the greatest racing track of them all.
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Photo: Stefan Baldauf/SB-Medien
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Despite the fact this thing is equipped with a roll cage and Corbeau racing seats, I can’t help but think that I’m looking at a Beluga whale out on a jog. High ground clearance and two-something tonnes isn’t the perfect recipe for a thrilling ride on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, buy hey, props to Land Rover for trying. Jokes aside, what’s what with this future Range Rover model?

As simply put as possible, Land Rover wants a piece of the BMW X6 and Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe. According to the carparazzi, the prototype featured in the spy photos to your right was benchmarking against the two German models. Underpinned by the Land Rover D7u platform, the Sport Coupe makes use of a lot of aluminum in its construction.

As for what hides underneath the wrapping paper, it’s easy to see that what we have here is a Range Rover Sport with a much, much lower roofline. Hence, the 2018 Range Rover Sport Coupe won’t be available with seven seats. In the Range Rover Sport, third-row seats are an optional extra.

The headlights and taillights, as well as the bumpers, appear to be very much like the ones you’ll find on the Range Rover Sport. The big news, however, is that the headlights will get the full-LED adaptive treatment introduced to the Range Rover lineup by the 2016 model year Evoque.

If the rumor mill is to be believed, Jaguar Land Rover will launch the first inline-six from the Ingenium family in calendar year 2017. The new unit will replace the 3.0-liter V6 inherited from Ford and, most likely, it will find its way under the hood of the 2018 Range Rover Sport Coupe as the entry-level engine. A supercharged V8 will be the cherry on top of the cake, though.
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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