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Land Rover produces some of the best engineered and best able off-road cartage in the world. Best of the time, though, they see far added time in the aide band at Four Seasons than they do in the dirt.
Land Rover owners about don’t ask their cartage to get them bottomward alien and asperous trails, but they apperceive that if they did, the agent would get them area they capital to go.
My anniversary with the 2017 Land Rover Ambit Rover Sport didn’t aftereffect in abundant mud accepting on the Lorie Blue acrylic job, but I already knew what this agent is able of doing. I was advantageous abundant to appear Land Rover’s off-road active academy at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina a while aback and got to see contiguous the arresting capabilities of this SUV.
I took a Ambit Rover through addled bottomland and bottomward acutely rutted trails. I forded hood-deep water, and crawled over rocks, apprehensive the accomplished time, “How in the apple did we get beyond that?”
And the accomplished time, I was cocooned in a world-class berth loaded with technology.
Land Rover gives buyers of the 2017 Ambit Rover Sport several choices back it comes to agent power, both V6 and V8. All Ambit Rover Sport engines are either supercharged or turbocharged and absorbed to an 8-speed automated transmission. All are 4WD.
First, there’s a 3.0-liter supercharged V6 with 340 application and 332 lb.-ft. of torque. Next is a 5.0-liter supercharged V8 with 510 horses and 461 lb.-ft. of torque. In high-performance SVR models, the big V8 is acquainted to bear 550 horses and 502 lb.-ft. of torque. Ambit Rover says the SVR models can barrage from aught to 60 afar per hour in 4.5 seconds.
Our analysis Ambit Rover Sport was the agent version, antic a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V6 that developed 254 application and a arresting 443 lb.-ft. of torque.
The agent agent in the analysis SUV was appreciably quiet and astonishingly able for a 3.0-liter powerplant. Without alert carefully, you’d be adamantine apprenticed to acquaint the aberration amid the agent and the gasoline engines.
Our analysis agent Ambit Rover had EPA ammunition abridgement abstracts of 22 afar per gallon in the burghal and 28 mpg on the highway. And with its 23.5-gallon ammunition tank, our analysis car had a whopping 658 afar of artery range.
Pricing for the 2017 Ambit Rover Sport starts in the mid-$60,000s, but the top end SVR models can bifold that. My HSE turbodiesel archetypal had an MSRP of $72,650.
The berth of the analysis Ambit Rover Sport oozes with sumptuousness, with aloof about aggregate covered in accomplished leather. The avant-garde seats adapted 16 ways, all four seats were acrimonious and ventilated, the council caster was acrimonious and there were four zones of altitude control. There was a across-the-board sunroof, appropriate Ambit Rover audio, 20-inch auto and connectivity via a 10.2-inch touchscreen.
One of the best cogent changes to the 2017 Ambit Rover Sport is the addition of InControl Touch Pro, which has the adeptness to compression and zoom back abyssal maps, or bash through card screens as you would on a smartphone or tablet.
InControl Alien allows drivers to advantage a smartphone app to analysis the vehicle’s breadth or ammunition level, lock and alleviate the vehicle, acclimatize the altitude ascendancy settings or alien alpha the vehicle.
For 2017, Land Rover has additionally alien a alternation of new avant-garde disciplinarian abetment technologies including Blind Spot Assist, Intelligent Speed Limiter and Avant-garde Tow Assist.
While not anybody will use it, all-terrain adequacy charcoal a cornerstone of Ambit Rover vehicles. An added All-Terrain Info Center is new for 2017. Accessible through the axial touchscreen, it displays advantageous advice back active off-road, such as agent geometry, abruptness abetment assurance and caster information. This affectation additionally now includes Drive Assist, which uses the vehicle’s beleaguer cameras to advice with low-speed assignment back off-road.
2017 Land Rover Ambit Rover Sport HSE Td6
Engine:
3.0-liter turbodiesel V6
Horsepower/Torque:
254/443 lb.-ft.
Transmission:
8-speed automatic
MSRP:
$72,650
EPA breadth estimates:
22 mpg city/28 mpg highway/24 mpg combined
Estimated artery range:
658 miles
