Fair point about both but I really do prefer the Sport. If money was no object I would still get top of the range Sport and add some extras - that French newsreader would be nice in the front seat! 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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That F*****G FIT FRENCH PIECE  Runner up - 2009 Best Avatar Award
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Could be that the Clarkson has had a hint from Landrover that they want to try and shift more big Rangies since the sports sales (&d3) globally are so strong. I recall him calling the RRS 'Epic' though it was the absence of the 'point to point' seat of the split boot that annoyed him most.... bothered!

(didn't TopGear Mag vote the RRS 4x4 of the year too! )

The hampster implied that the big Rangie driver would be looking down on the RRS... having had the car a week I'd say its more the over way round !

Mind you the RR, RRS and D3 are one hell of a portfolio for the LR folk. P400e HSE Portofino Blue and Ivory Seats.. it's like a yacht!!
Lexus traded in ..a total piece of crap
Boldly now acquired - a Lexus RX 450hL
BoldlyGone...Sep 15 MY16 RRS SDV6, HSE, Barolo Black, Espresso/Almond interior.. Best car ever & Drop dead gorgeous... sadly with fuel dilution headaches that became intolerable
Arrived 2014. Oct - Lemoned March 2015- RRS SDV6 HSE
Boldly Gone = Sold for 14k via Pistonheads - 2006 TDV6 SE Buck Blue/Almond int

I have owned both.................... the Full Fat RR is a VERY nice machine (although the BMW diesel is hopeless in it and crude compared to the V6). It is big and "imperial" and wafts around - you really don't feel like you should be hurrying it along, you are there for the "experience" and comfort. The Sport is more pleasant to drive, but the suspension is just a tad firmer so you actually feel the imperfections in the road, whereas in the FFRR you only hear them as those big fat tyres stride over the potholes. Unless LR have done a heap of aerodynamic mods to the RR then the Sport is also quieter through the air with less wind noise - especially round the wipers and the A pillar. The Sport also has a better designed rear screen and wiper arrangement - on the RR the rear wiper could not be run continuously or even have the interval varied when you were on a motorway at speed and it was raining, and LR have at least listened to that universeal whinge and corrected it on the Sport. I would have another RR tomorrow, even a 2nd hand one but the driving experience of the Sport is much more to my liking. Having TR and Dynamic Responce in the Sport also puts it ahead of it's big brother but I'm sure LR will sort that out in the next edition! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

i think JC current beef with the RRs is that you need to be a footballer to own one.. He seems to think they are too bling.. "look at me" ..

I like the way that they tend to blend in, and dont think they are too bling at all! ..

JC is a bit of a co@k sometimes if he doesnt like the car.. the Nissan 350z still hasnt recovered from the verbal thrashing he gave it!

Hang Over wrote:

I like the way that they tend to blend in, and dont think they are too bling at all! ..

The other thing with the RR was that even after they had become a relatively common sight in the UK I still used to come back to mine in car parks and find somebody peering inside it to see the interior - and mine was "only" an SE. It always amazed me how many folks would ask if they could just sit inside it, that is how special an RR is in Joe Public's eyes. I have never ever had this experience with my Sport.
Just like it's forebears, the L322 RR will also become a "design Classic" and unlike X5's and Cayennes it will not date easily, which is also something that will make them desirable for years to come. You will have to be a real "train spotter" to tell the difference between an early 2002 model and a March 2006 model. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Tim in Scotland wrote:

You will have to be a real "train spotter" to tell the difference between an early 2002 model and a March 2006 model.

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