This black Land Rover Range Rover Sport, black interior, is based in Orange County, the discreet one of our two Sports and the cheaper by fifty dollars a day. Black on black reads as a private vehicle rather than a rental, so a valet in Newport Beach treats it like an owner's car. It seats five and covers ground quietly rather than being seen.
Land Rover builds the quietest cabin of anything at this price, and the Range Rover Sport is where you notice it most, because it is the one you actually drive rather than ride in. Laminated glass, active noise cancellation through the audio system and heavy sealing bring road noise down to almost nothing along Pacific Coast Highway at speed. Underneath there is 355 horsepower from a mild hybrid straight six and a 5.7 second run to sixty, delivered smoothly enough that you rarely register the effort. Air suspension takes the sting out of broken pavement without turning the body floaty.
Black over black gives you the most discreet Land Rover we run, and it photographs as a private vehicle rather than a rental, which suits corporate work around Irvine and family content alike. The flush door handles deploy only when the car is unlocked, so a locked car has almost no visible hardware at all, which reads unusually clean in a photograph. Dark paint wants evening light, along the harbour at Newport Beach or under a hotel canopy in Laguna Beach. This one also carries a lower per mile rate than the white Sport, which makes it the better pick for a longer drive.
Cheaper of our two Range Rover Sports by fifty dollars a day and carrying the lower per mile rate, which together make it the better pick for a long run out to Palm Springs. Black on black also reads as a private vehicle rather than a rental, which the white car does not quite manage, so it suits a guest list that should not clock an obvious rental car pulling up. If the day is about covering ground quietly rather than being seen doing it, this is the one to book. The white car is the one that photographs, and this is the one that disappears.
This is the Range Rover Sport in its entry SE specification, with the mild hybrid straight six tuned to 355 horsepower and 369 lb-ft, sent through all wheel drive. Black paint covers a body built on air suspension at each corner with adaptive dampers, and the cabin is trimmed in black leather with heated and ventilated front seats. Five seats, four doors, a floating roofline with flush door handles, and the 13.1 inch Pivi Pro touchscreen running most of the cabin.