Land Rover Range Rover Sport HSE P400e: The High-riding Hybrid
Land Rover is getting into the electric SUV game. Two small steps at a time. The British automaker has plans to add fully battery-powered vehicles to its lineup in the future, but for now it鈥檚 launching a pair of plug-in hybrids. One of them is a Range Rover, the other the Range Rover Sport HSE P400e. They share a drivetrain that aims to be more efficient, but just as potent as the company鈥檚 similarly priced six-cylinder gasoline engines. I tested it in the smaller hybrid Sport. It combines a 296 hp 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder with a 114 hp electric motor nestled between it and eight-speed automatic transmission and offers several driving modes. It can work like a regular hybrid, shuffling between the two propulsion systems as needed and teaming up to provide up to 398 hp and 472 lb-ft of torque on demand. That鈥檚 good for an athletic 0-60 mph sprint of 6.3 seconds.
The chassis is simple stuff with struts up front, a torsion beam rear axle, some swaybars and gas dampers - nothing fancy. Those specifications may fail to impress in modern times, but there's a long list of impressive performers sporting the same details. Nobody would accuse a first generation Volksagen GTI of being a sloppy-handling little knockwurst. When this type of chassis is sorted, it's very good, and the Forte SX is well fettled. The steering could use a smidge more feedback and less aggressive boost; it's fast off-center. The Forte feels light on its feet, though, like a boxer that dances around his opponents. This is a spirited, fun car to drive, which bodes well for the upcoming Koup model and its more overt suggestion of sportiness. The downside is a busy ride on the taut side of comfortable. Some might find it objectionably stiff, and there are occasions where the Forte feels like it's ricocheting off expansion gaps instead of just smothering them with a more pliant suspension. But It's a tradeoff we'd make, because it's an entertaining steer that doesn't dive, squat and slobber all over the road.
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When John Hess was looking to purchase his Land Rover Dormobile he had to make a choice between two RHD Dormobiles imported from the UK. Dormobile. He went back and fourth between the two carefully examining detail pictures of both, sending me all the jpegs and asking my opinion of this and that. Finally he chose "Elvis" because he was told that "Elvis" had a newer replacement frame. This jpeg is the only picture I kept of the Dormobile not taken. And yes, gray is an official Land Rover colour. As I recall there were two shades of gray available on the price list over time. TC Chioffi's Dormobile, "Basil", a sweet looking Land Rover Dormobile with year of manufacture license plates. ABOVE AND BELOW: This near mint 1962 Land Rover Dormobile is owned by Victor & Marg Gerwin of British Columbia Canada. It was purchased new by a Calgary physcian for an African Safari. Note the air defelctors on the rear side.. These are to keep dust from building up on the rear window.
