It’s the third generation of one of the performance SUV pioneers. The Range Rover Sport first launched in 2005, back when quick 4x4s were still in their infancy. Now everyone’s at it, giving the lads and lasses in Gaydon a tougher task than ever keeping theirs relevant. The Sport follows a few months after the full-fat Range Rover’s reinvention. It’s 35 per cent stiffer and sits 20mm lower – to help justify its suffix – and comes with four-wheel drive as standard, hooked up to an array of petrol, diesel and hybrid powertrains. Yep, diesel soldiers firmly on here, and kicks the range off at a smidge over £80,000. That gets you a D300 – three litres, six cylinders and a mite under 300bhp – in base SE trim. ‘Base’ being purely a relative term in the Range Rover universe, of course. We wish you the best of luck spending just that, though; options pile on easily and the flagship P530 – with a 523bhp, twin-turbo V8 engine under its clamshell bonnet – kicks off at a stocky £116,190.