2016 Land Rover Range Rover 30l Turbocharged Diesel Hse Td6 Reviews
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2016 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Td6 Verdict
Spoiled for life!
With a arid desert highway stretching out toward the horizon, I sat relaxed as the warm evening air whipped through the cabin. This was my last hurrah behind the bicycle of my long-term Range Rover Sport HSE Td6, and what a hurrah it was.
It'southward hard to imagine that I could be cruising beyond the desert flooring at autobahn speeds in perfect comfort when but moments earlier I was driving through towering sand dunes going places nearly vehicles could never even imagine going. We had just finished filming an episode of Ignition in which Jonny Lieberman and Ken Block took 2 Ford Raptors into the Dumont Sand Dunes near Decease Valley National Park. Throughout a twenty-four hour period of drifting, jumping, and driving up the sides of mountainous dunes, a number of support vehicles and one of the usually unstoppable Raptors found themselves trapped in deep sand. The Range Rover rescued them all with its suspension raised to its off-road setting and its Terrain Response Arrangement set to sand mode.
This one day, this one moment fifty-fifty, is the epitome of what this Range Rover means to me—it's the ultimate luxury go-anywhere Grand Touring auto. To say that my time with it has spoiled me is understating my feelings. How do you come back from this?
My year with our 2016 Range Rover Sport Td6 started past chance. Angus MacKenzie, the Rover's original chaperone, had just moved dorsum to England. The logical selection to replace him in his duties, our Editor-in-Chief, Ed Loh, needed a larger vehicle to accommodate his morning surf outings. I happily surrendered my long-term Honda Airplane pilot in exchange.
Having worked full-time at Motor Trend for almost seven years, I accept spent a considerable amount behind the wheel of different Range Rovers. Throughout the years, I take sampled everything from supercharged Five-viii Sport models to fully optioned uber-luxury total-size Range Rovers, merely this would be my maiden voyage into luxury automobile ownership.
With a total toll of $83,510, our diesel fuel-sipping Range Rover Sport had $11,065 in optional equipment. Keeping me actress comfortable during long trips, the Front Climate Condolement and Visibility package included 16-style adaptable heated and cooled front end seats clad in classy Oxford perforated leather. The second row occupants as well got heated seats, and my hands were kept toasty in the cold climates by a heated steering wheel. Also included in the $ii,620 package were Adaptive Xenon headlights, auto dimming exterior mirrors, and bullheaded-spot monitoring. The $1,100 825-Watt Meridian Premium Audio package is well worth information technology and kept me listening in mode during long trips. Another fun perk was that the front console was refrigerated, which meant I always had cold h2o and caffeinated beverages during long photo shoots.
The only negatives almost the interior were that the seats could exist a little firm and that swish light-colored leather was difficult to proceed clean, specially because I regularly find myself in dusty, muddy photograph locations. The infotainment organization is also slow and outdated, but that has been a complaint near every Land Rover product I take e'er driven—it's just par for the course. Hopefully in the coming years Range Rover will adopt the updated arrangement found in the newest Jaguar offerings.
The remaining $vii,345 of options include the $two,900 Driver Assistance package, the $1,750 Extra Duty parcel, $one,295 adaptive cruise command, $900 Tow parcel, and the $500 Panoramic Roof, which was very helpful for doing auto-to-car photography! All of the packages combined made for a very nice vehicle to drive in whatever conditions imaginable.
That's the important part. No matter what you threw at it, the Range Rover handled information technology with ease. Whether information technology was long road trips, day-to-day driving in traffic, twisty mountain roads, off-road, snow, or sand, I was always filled with a sense of conviction that the Range Rover would become through it. It was by far the most versatile vehicle that I accept always owned. Considering of its well roundedness, it meant that I drove it a lot. Together with other staffers, we racked upwards more than 27,000 miles over our year with the Range Rover.
Then how did it hold upward? The starting time issue nosotros had directly followed the Rover's first service. Having never owned a luxury brand vehicle before, the $845.63 basic service was hard to swallow. The service interval is xv,000 miles, though, and so that made it a niggling easier to get downwardly. Unfortunately a few days after the service was completed, a fuel filter seal failed and left a massive pool of diesel fuel fuel in my driveway. My frustration was compounded when I found oil-covered rags that had been left in the engine bay from the service department. We also had reoccurring issues with a exhaust gas recirculation valve. It would stick and throw error codes that would occasionally cure themselves, and it sometimes need to taken into the dealer. We also picked up so many rock strikes that we needed to have the windshield replaced late in our loan to the tune of $one,828.92. During that same visit, they replaced the brake pads and did the second bones service all combined for a gut-wrenching amount of $3,386.50
Compared to our previous long-term Range Rover Sport and supercharged V-vi Range Rover, we spent significantly more on this Range Rover for maintenance and habiliment and tear. The additional basic service that was washed early, the brakes, and the replacement windshield really added up.
I say it about all of my long-term test cars, merely I will truly miss the Range Rover. I will miss everything about information technology from its versatile, competent driving characteristics to its swish Montalcino Cherry-red exterior paint and equally classy Oxford interior. Information technology had its reliability bug, but the overall package more than made up for its shortcomings. $83,510 is a lot of money, simply the Range Rover Sport HSE Td6 is a lot of vehicle.
More than ON OUR LONG-TERM 2016 RANGE ROVER SPORT TD6 Here:
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- Arrival
- Update 1: Ride and Park
- Update 2: Mile Cruncher
- Update 3: Expensive Services
- Update 4: Mystery Fuel Leak
- Update 5: Snow, Pelting, Wind, and Long Distances
| Our Motorcar | |
| SERVICE LIFE | 12 mo / 27,363 mi |
| BASE PRICE | $72,445 |
| OPTIONS | Commuter Assist Package ($2,900: Lane departure alarm, parking assist, park altitude control, head-up display), Forepart Climate Comfort & Visibility Package ($2,620: xvi-style adaptable forepart heated and cooled seats, heated rear seats, heated steering wheel, adaptive xenon headlights, blind spot monitor), Extra Duty Package ($1,750: Two-speed transfer box, Terrain Response ii Auto, All Terrain Progress Control), adaptive cruise control ($1,295), Meridian Premium sound ($1,100), Tow Package ($900: Hitch receiver, full-size spare), sliding panoramic roof ($500) |
| PRICE Equally TESTED | $83,510 |
| AVG ECON/CO2 | 24.0 mpg / 0.93 lb/mi |
| Trouble AREAS | None |
| MAINTENANCE Cost | $ane,588.11 (3-DEF refill; 2-oil change, inspection, tire rotation, cabin air filter, fuel filter) |
| NORMAL-Vesture COST | $846.12 - brake pads |
| three-Twelvemonth Residuum VALUE* | $46,650 |
| RECALLS | None |
| *Automotive Lease Guide data | |
| 2016 Land Rover Range Rover Sport HSE Td6 | |
| POWERTRAIN/CHASSIS | |
| DRIVETRAIN LAYOUT | Front-engine, 4WD |
| ENGINE TYPE | Turbodiesel 60-deg V-6, iron block/heads |
| VALVETRAIN | DOHC, 4 valves/cyl |
| DISPLACEMENT | 182.6 cu in/2,993 cc |
| Compression RATIO | sixteen.1:one |
| Ability (SAE Cyberspace) | 252 hp @ iv,000 rpm |
| TORQUE (SAE NET) | 443 lb-ft @ 2,000 rpm |
| REDLINE | four,200 rpm |
| WEIGHT TO Ability | 21.i lb/hp |
| Manual | 8-speed automatic |
| Axle/Concluding-Bulldoze RATIO | iii.21:1/2.xiv:one |
| SUSPENSION, Front end; REAR | Control artillery, air springs, anti-curlicue bar; multilink, air springs, anti-roll bar |
| STEERING RATIO | 17.six:1 |
| TURNS LOCK-TO-LOCK | 2.8 |
| BRAKES, F; R | fourteen.2-in vented disc; xiii.8-in vented disc, ABS |
| WHEELS, F;R | nine.5 ten 20 in cast aluminum |
| TIRES, F;R | 255/55R20 (110Y) M+S Goodyear Eagle F1 |
| DIMENSIONS | |
| WHEELBASE | 115.one in |
| TRACK, F/R | 66.v/66.4 in |
| LENGTH x WIDTH x HEIGHT | 190.ix ten 79.5 ten 68.1-70.one in |
| Ground CLEARANCE | xi.iii in |
| APPRCH/DEPART Bending | 24.3-33.0/24.nine-31.0 deg |
| TURNING Circumvolve | 40.six ft |
| Adjourn WEIGHT | 5,326 lb |
| WEIGHT DIST, F/R | 50/l % |
| TOWING CAPACITY | 7,716 lb |
| SEATING CAPACITY | v |
| HEADROOM, F/R | 38.8/39.i in |
| LEGROOM, F/R | 39.6/37 in |
| SHOULDER ROOM, F/R | 60.7/59.five in |
| CARGO VOLUME BEH F/R | 62.two/27.7 cu ft |
| TEST DATA | |
| ACCELERATION TO MPH | |
| 0-30 | 2.4 sec |
| 0-twoscore | 3.8 |
| 0-50 | 5.iv |
| 0-sixty | 7.half dozen |
| 0-seventy | 10.0 |
| 0-80 | xiii.ii |
| PASSING, 45-65 MPH | 4.one |
| QUARTER MILE | xv.8 sec @ 86.8 mph |
| BRAKING, 60-0 MPH | 120 ft |
| LATERAL Acceleration | 0.eighty thousand (avg) |
| MT Effigy EIGHT | 27.6 sec @ 0.62 one thousand (avg) |
| TOP-GEAR REVS @ 60 MPH | 1,400 rpm |
| CONSUMER INFO | |
| BASE Cost | $72,445 |
| PRICE AS TESTED | $83,510 |
| STABILITY/TRACTION Control | Aye/Yes |
| AIRBAGS | Dual front, forepart side, f/r curtain |
| BASIC WARRANTY | 4 yrs/50,000 miles |
| POWERTRAIN WARRANTY | 4 yrs/fifty,000 miles |
| ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE | iv yrs/50,000 miles |
| FUEL CAPACITY | 22.7 gal |
| EPA Urban center/HWY/COMB ECON | 22/29/25 mpg |
| ENERGY CONS, Urban center/HWY | 171/130 kW-hrs/100 miles |
| CO2 EMISSIONS, COMB | 0.90 lb/mile |
| REAL MPG, CITY/HWY/COMB | 24.0/31.8/26.ix mpg |
| RECOMMENDED FUEL | Diesel fuel |
Source: https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2016-land-rover-range-rover-sport-td6-review-verdict/