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The Range Rover Sport is a luxury sport utility vehicle (SUV) produced by Land Rover since 2005. The fifth model in the Land Rover lineup and the first completely new model since the inception of the Freelander in 1996, the Range Rover Sport represents a new design direction for the marque as foreshadowed by the Range Stormer concept unveiled in 2005.

An evolution of the concept, the Sport is marketed as a sports tourer and is intended to be Land Rover's most driver focused vehicle as indicated by its subtle rear spoiler and tail lights shaped for aerodynamic efficiency. Despite this, the Sport has serious off-road capability at its core, matching the rest of the Land Rover range. Like the Range Rover, it is only equipped with an automatic transmission.

The Range Rover Sport made the Premier Automotive Group the target of a protest by Greenpeace in 2005.[citation needed] The protesters infiltrated an assembly facility and temporarily delayed production of the vehicle. Greenpeace quoted issue with contributions to greenhouse gas emissions, and by extension, global warming, that would result from the vehicle's inefficient combustion of hydrocarbons.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates for the non-supercharged car are 14 mpg-US (17 L/100 km; 17 mpg-imp) (combined). Although, it must be noted that for this test the EPA used their newly calibrated system for 2008 and on. Greenpeace stated they did not take issue with the production of vehicles such as the Land Rover Defender as they are typically used for off-road applications on a much more frequent basis than vehicles such as the Range Rover Sport which they claim "has been tuned primarily for on road performance"

 

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