Why We Rejected Our Range Rover Sport SV! 

I know right, when you can get a DBX for less and dam better car all around.

It's the shock to these guys that it may only be worth 124k. 189 for a range rover (with mats)! Saw him coming 😂

You can tell his misses is his first bird bless

Seems to be an ongoing story sadly with this particular vehicle.

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Yep the inclusion of mats……. and flaps by that wonderful salesman clearly tipped him over the line 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😂

@@williamoakes664yea these 2 are complete clowns & full of dribble

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!! 👏🏾

Land Rover has been living off of and promoting a reputation that didn't even survive a decade. It's like certain watch brands that had great tech 100 years ago or alcohol brands that won a single tasting competition, but keep saying they're "premium" and charging for it. At least the watches still keep time and the alcohol is still decent even if overpriced...lol.

He was driven by need to show off.

Well said - it can barely be a shock! 😂😂😂

The supercharged engines seem to be the best from JLR

The exception that proves the rule! 😂

Used to work for GM Europe last car I was involved in was the 2008 Insignia which was far from ready when it went on sale 🤣, By 2013 they had just about sorted it out !

Run!!!!! Buy a bently or something else clearly more practical

95% of land rovers are sitting in scrap yards or have been reduced to components by chop shops!

pmsl..

O yeah! You obviously never owned a Range Rover?

@@bcraftin7846,on the contrary I’ve had a few JLR products (my son was a senior engineer at SVO). So I can confirm they are a very comfortable place to sit, whilst you await recovery.

@@rocketron9 Good to know. But there is a lot of people that get on here talking shit about the brand that has never owned one I’ve been with JLR for over 20 years. I currently have two Range Rover‘s with over 200,000 miles both only requiring normal wear and tear and maintenance, and I wouldn’t hesitate to drive either of them across the United States at a moments notice. People need to get over the narrative from the 80s and early 90s about reliability as a matter fact BMWs and Mercedes are way less reliable than Rovers. I’ve owned them all, and had more success with reliability with my Rovers.

I have a McLaren, actually had no major problems with it or its predecessor, keep your eyes peeled on the channel we have done a few videos on it with more to come.

⁠@@tro3yLets be honest. Rich people dont whine about car reliability. If you want you can google McLaren reliability and you will find a lot of bull… like you find for LR or RR. For example I own Defender 2024 and had 0 issues by far. But thats me

Starting to think this, I’ve been a JLR owner for well over 12 years this one has certainly knocked my confidence in the brand sadly.

@@tro3y I went from an SVR to a turbo GT, it's an incredible car. Really, really happy with it.

@@tro3yI am currently in the same damn boat. My 2024 Land Rover buyback has been getting “reviewed” for the past four freaking months!!!!

I had turbo gt. just picked up my sv. Much better car

JLR like all brands have good and bad cars, mine was sadly not a great one after years of trouble free JLR ownership. Hearing from people with newer versions it seems they may have had batch issues that may have been resolved both through dealer and manufacturing updates, nice to hear you had a cayenne turbo GT and went to an SV from it and you feel it’s better, that’s what makes my search even harder as the SV was a mega car at its core just the mechanical failures compounded with the trim quality issues sadly ended my time with the car. I think I just got a lemon/ Friday afternoon car🤷🏼‍♂️

If you put lip stick on a pig, it's still a pig !

Yeah but when you release a flawed product don't surprised when they come asking for their money back like with this example.

Your spot on

I agree. Over the years I have bought more than a handful of JLR products including three Range Rovers and a Jaguar XK8. All apart from a 2004 Range Rover were bothersome but while premium priced they were not absurdly expensive. Anyhow I got fed up with the amount of downtime and cost of running Land Rover products including Defenders and decided last year, and in the light of 15 year’s experience with them, to add another Ford Ranger to my small fleet. This is a true dual purpose vehicle and its ride and interior quality and performance, while more than adequate, do not quite equate to a Range Rover. However it does the job and more than adequately and only cost my business £42,000 plus VAT and I got the VAT back after the first month. While I hanker for and love Range Rovers, I vowed never again to buy one of their vehicles. Over the years and concurrently to owning Range and Land Rovers, I have also owned a large variety of other vehicles including three Nissan Terrano [bought in one deal] Isuzu Trooper Citation LWB, BMW X5, Mercedes ML, Audi Q7 and two Land Cruiser Amazon [an 80 and 100 series]. If JLR had backed up their vehicles with me and honoured their warranty and made reliable vehicles, all those other vehicles and a few others would have undoubtedly been JLR vehicles. But frankly they continue to produce expensive rubbish and fail to take responsibility for their production and design issues. They are undoubtedly the most arrogant company and people in the motor and industrial machinery business that I have dealt with over the last 45 years since I bought my first new Ford Fiesta in 1976 to my first new Range Rover in 1986 and onwards to today.

JLR are the epitome of a failed Indian brand. Decades of woeful reliability, shockingly poor build quality and a dealer network of monkeys... When our last one was stolen we celebrated with champagne. Never again...

Great point well made

After 13 years of RR ownership I only had minor niggles, this one was well…….🤷🏼‍♂️ So I agree get a good one and they are great.

Oh wow! Thanks for sharing this

I collected mine 7 weeks ago. Had it for a total of 17 days and it was fault free for 2 days. Had a courtesy car and now in a hire car. Currently going thru the reject process. 1 week and counting.

landcruiser is the best motor on the planet

@@georgesemple8136 Land Cruisers are very reliable but can be costly when they do go wrong. All vehicles are I suppose but at least LC doesn’t normally go wrong often. I’ve owned two, an 80 series manual which had poor second gear synchromesh and blew its injector pump at some point; plus 100 series which I ran for 200,000 miles and 20 years and has been parked up on my yard for the last five years due to the uneconomic cost of repairs needed to mainly its brake system but also it needs a conversion to a manual suspension system. About £8k worth of repairs minimum, which just isn’t viable on a now 26 year old vehicle. Until the electronic brake servo failed it had near zero repairs in its life and even its exhaust system is all original. The engine and transmission still worked like new and the chassis was good, although I had only two years earlier changed one front wing due to rust at its front bottom.

I have old shogun keep it running, allways picking my dad up from land rover 😂

@@richsubishi ha ha

New Landcruiser also has major problems!

😂😂. Say no more mate

They used to be amazing to drive if you wanted really good refinement and an amazing ride. Not any more! New RRS (non SVR) and new Defender both have firm suspension. Not sure why have air suspension and a firm uncomfortable ride, no more Land Rovers for me!

I, for one, do not and have vowed some years ago not to ever buy one of their products ever again whatever the temptation. I’m sticking to it. They have not improved their build quality or reliability or their backup of product the slightest bit while trying to compete with supercars on a whole higher price level. Don’t be fooled by their hype. They are poorly designed down to a price not up to a quality and reliability standard, while selling for a silly premium price which they do not deserve. Indeed if truth be known, on so many levels they do not deserve to survive and exist as a company. They have had so many chances and they consistently blow it.

@@hedydd2 what do you drive now ?

The golden rule for buying Range Rovers is……don’t! There are plenty of other much more reliable SUVs out there with reasonable insurance prices and far less chance of being stolen.

Glad you got a good one, epic car enjoy it, shame my one failed for me, I have no problem with the brand loved them for 13 years with no big faults until this one.

You must be living under a stone to have a opinion like that

Just because you got a good one doesn’t mean that saves the brand the reliability on JLR is absolutely shocking brand new ones fail all the time at a crazy rate the dealerships simply can’t keep up with these garbage motors coming back in you really have to be ignorant to the issue or have too much money to care and it’s usually the second option

My dealer has been very good about it and I have never had a better experience from a dealer and especially the sales staff, this was part of the reason I forgave the car so much but in the end my confidence was destroyed not in the dealer but the car and the brand sadly, they seem built to sell now rather than actually last.

They have good design but the build quality is very poor, especially for the prices they charge.

Strong words, I think most brands suffer from issues not just JLR, after 13 years of JLR ownership I have had limited issues with the cars I have had, sadly here this one car has rocked my personal feelings about the brand, and it’s a shame, I have been a JLR brand Fanboy for so many years this one just fell short and had so much potential to be epic. I hear newer delivered cars are better built but I can only go on what we hear and personally experience as a channel and the negative story’s of SVs are still coming through even now😢 Let’s be clear this car defied physics and it did things it should not have been able to do, but the quality issues after such a short ownership time was very questionable and was the final nail in the coffin for me personally. You have to have confidence in a vehicles build quality, especially at this price point.

@@tro3ycayenne is better for handling. JLR is a joke. I've bought a few and people do love them but they're a garage buddy.

@@jagenaught The SV has a different suspension so on the handling front I will say its better than all the SUVs I have driven given its mclaren like suspension, so a standard Range Rover I agree with you 100% porsche will be way better, but this SV I would find it hard to beat from a handling point of view.

Boring

Brilliant point, especially when it’s about as special as dog turd on a footpath in a park

Sorry the depreciation was a bolt on after the ownership, the main focus is the faults and issues that seem to have affected more than 1 isolated car giving rise for the rejection of the car.

We gone to bmw and Audi, class above any land rover 😊

Have you had bad engines?

Every manufacturer can have the occasional "UNICORN ". The occasional reliable example doesn't represent the ownership experience of a majority of the owners. It is true new models can have "TEETHING PROBLEMS " but they are usually quickly resolved. JRL models start out being problematic and usually remain much more troublesome than their competitors throughout their model cycle.

Not discounting your experience but for a vehicle in this segment, 65,000 miles with no issues is really nothing special and actually should be expected.

Had 10 BMWs - none of which have had ‘teething troubles’ !! 😂😂 Ridiculous.

Had many good ones, this one was a lemon, but it seems from other customers they made a few of them sadly😞

It is an amazingly capable car v the older SVR, the suspension and the way it drives at speed is leaps ahead, but on freeway or normal driving you probably wouldn’t notice enough of the changes bar the 4 wheel steer.

Buy the 2023 First Edition similar though not with the new tech - reasonably priced

Glad you’re so tolerant, sadly the transfer box and the suspension knocking were too much for me on this car to have any confidence for its long term use, even the JLR AA roadside guy did not know what it was let alone diagnose any faults on it at the roadside when it failed. Insurance was £950 per year so no issue with insurance. As for depreciation the miles and cars I buy all depreciate and if you actually knew me you would realise I am not someone who is bothered about depreciation and keeping value in cars, if I did I would be doing no miles and buy garage queens, I drive my cars hence the 7500 in 4 months. Cars normally are better the more you use them, this car got progressively worse and given its intended use as a daily driver I personally lost confidence. You’re right though it does make good content for the channel but JLR pitched this car as a turning point for the brand from a quality point of view🤷🏼‍♂️we are simply sharing our experience.

I sold my f pace svr and f type for this very reason ie parts and service. Jaguar is in the process of doing a runner it’s plain to see.

how many years and models do you need to know they are crap,,you never learn

Lemon car law, I think three faults and you can return the vehicle? I wonder where they are built also.

Sad to hear this, a few owners who have been in touch have had spec changes between their order and what was actually delivered.

Yeah. That's not YOUR car. That's just A car they gave you to meet delivery. Should've just said 'nah' when you saw its the wrong colour, especially after the 'suspension' issue. Your car probably got given to whoever order the car you got.

​@@onlycheeseislife Well, truth be told, we were all under that illusion that this is some sort of 'limited run vehicle' with speculation being that only around 500 were made. Turns out that was probably inaccurate... TWO of my neighbors in my apartment building own a Sport SV. That's three sport SV's in one parking lot! I actually have a letter sat on my desk which is basically Range Rover apologizing. They shipped an electronic coffee flask thing and a paper weight of a full size Range Rover to my address. They couldn't even get the paper weight model right! It wasn't a case of re-ordering another one. The salesman failed to take responsibility and said that it would've been user error from that guys at the Malibu event when we specced the car. In hindsight, the dealership never even sent me a purchase order with the specification. The car just rocked up a year later and I (foolishly) paid up on the premise that it was marketed as a limited vehicle. I was just going to flip it but these things are not selling! Other than the documented faults it's an unbelievable car. At this point I'm going to continue to drive it and wait until it inevitably breaks.

@@TheLJC_ The total run is 2,500. 500 may just be USA.

dipstick? Did they bring those back?

Lol your engine would be toast if that happened...cylinder head failure 😮

I have one and I’m not having any issues this far. I am in the U.S. It’s a great car. Very different to drive than any RR Sport I have had before including 2 SVRs. Agree though that JLR corporate needs much improvement on parts availability and customer service.

Cars on the whole have increased across the market, entry level cars from ford to Audi etc are now 20k plus with the cheapest new car in the U.K. a Dacia at £13,795…. Cars are just more expensive now across all brands🤷🏼‍♂️

My dealer is/was amazing and have been through all the cars they have supplied me🤷🏼‍♂️

JLR did well with the ipace and the Range Rover hybrids seem good we reviewed my 510e on this channel so take a look.

Nah range rovers have always been terrible reliability wise I see brand new ones at the side of the motorway every day more or less