New Range Rover Sport SVR Looks Like A Porsche Cayenne Killer

The all-new Range Rover Sport will shortly make its international debut, which means we're being treated to the usual teaser images and spy shots.

This week we bring you brand-new spy shots of a car wearing a little less camouflage, revealing a bit more than Land Rover possibly intended. It's still extremely difficult to get an overall sense of the design, but it does seem like Land Rover is not joining the oversized grille club. The headlights also appear slimmer, though we can't be sure because of the aggressive sticker pattern.

We can tell that Land Rover won't stray too far from the overall design language of the full-fat Range Rover, and that's a good thing.

The camouflage makes it impossible to make any comment on the side profile. We know it will have doors and windows, and that's about it.

However, the tires, brake calipers, and brake discs do reveal a little. It's evident that those are performance tires and the wheels look at least 22 inches in diameter. That means both the caliper and disc are massive. The fact that the caliper is painted red also hints toward a sporty application. You don't put brakes like that on a car unless it has a monster underneath the hood.

Round the back, you'll notice the quad exhaust pipes. Quad tailpipes were a defining feature of the now-defunct SVR Sport. No other Sport model had quad pipes.

Does this mean Land Rover is upping the power of the 5.0-liter supercharged V8 found in the previous model? Erm, no. That engine is mostly dead, though it lives on in the Defender V8.

In case you missed it, Land Rover's V8s now come directly from BMW. The full-fat Range Rover uses BMW's potent 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 rated at 523 hp and 553 lb-ft of torque. This engine seems like the most likely candidate for the SVR, though it does have one problem. In this state of tune, it's not powerful enough.

Luckily, we know this 4.4-liter V8 lies at the heart of many BMW performance cars, including the upcoming XM. In the XM, BMW mates it to a plug-in hybrid system, which increases the power output to 750 hp and 737 lb-ft of torque.

Will BMW allow Land Rover access to its extraordinary M toy chest, however? The all-new Sport is scheduled to make its debut on May 10, and we'll have more answers by then.