Range Rover Sport SV Carbon: When Carbon Becomes Luxury and Sound Comes from the Seats

At Monterey Car Week, Range Rover is unveiling the latest evolution of its flagship: the Sport SV Carbon. It’s the third addition to the Sport SV family, following the SV Edition ONE and SV Black. The name doesn’t exaggerate—this is a carbon fiber feast wrapped around the same V8 powerplant as its predecessors, now aiming to feel both lighter and more menacing.

To earn its name, the Range Rover Sport SV Carbon comes with 23-inch carbon wheels, an exposed Twill Carbon hood, carbon interior trim, and even a carbon-covered engine. All of it is available in packages with names that sound like luxury lounge decor: Forged Carbon Exterior Pack, Moonlight Chrome, Ultrafabrics, and so on.

The result is a claimed 76 kg weight saving compared to the standard version—a fact emphasized as enthusiastically as the upgrade to carbon-ceramic brakes and the bold SV-friendly color palette: yellow, blue, bronze, and black.

Under the hood is a 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 with mild-hybrid assistance—635 horsepower and 750 Nm of torque. This makes it the most powerful Range Rover Sport ever built, with a top speed of 290 km/h—impressive given the vehicle’s mass and dimensions.

6D Dynamics promises to keep the body flat even during aggressive cornering, though only in theory. The laws of physics remain beyond Range Rover’s jurisdiction.

Inside, attention turns to the “Body and Soul Seat” system, which claims to let you feel the music through seat-embedded sensors. It sounds futuristic, but ultimately belongs more in the realm of novelty entertainment tech than genuine driving comfort.