Adaptive Cruise is brilliant. High driving position ( I did what W44NNE did only yesterday in a busy hospital car park, to find a space). And the comfort. It's been said before but last year 2 trips to Aberdeenshire have piled on the miles but I can get out at the other end as if I've just driven down the road. I've had to advise my insurance co. of my extra mileage. Originally it was 8000 per annum. Now expecting 16,000 in my first 12 months of ownership. Robin
2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8
Gone:
Jaguar S-Type V8 4.2 Sport
MGZTT 190 2.5

I love the commanding driving position. The interior is good quality and a nice place to be and the heated front screen a godsend this time of year.

Dynamic mode, Adaptive Cruise and Head up display for me.

What is 'dynamic mode'?

You haven't got it so don't worry!

It's a driving mode on newer RRS that makes it more car like on road. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

hah cool

I think my favourite feature of the sport is the ability to cruise along incredibly relaxed, or open it up and drive it hard, it does both so well. And it looks fantastic

Hi,

I like:-;-

Dynamic Mode
Adaptive Cruise
The way the passenger seat stops moaning & groaning when SWMBO gets out.

I wish the last feature worked all the time!



Scrumps Somerset - Where the apples do grow and the cider do flow!
2021 Defender 90 D250 HSE in Tasman with white roof.
24MY D300 AB - Verasine Blue - 😀
19MY SDV6 AB - Byron Blue - Gone
17MY D5 SDV6 HSE - Firenze Red - Gone
16MY SDV6 AB -Aruba Silver - Gone
13.5MY SDV6 "HSE Black" - Baltic Blue - Gone
10MY TDV8 HSE Galway Green - Gone
14MY D4 HSE in Scotia Grey - Gone
05 TD5 D90 CSW in Cairns Blue

RRSTDV8 wrote:

It's a driving mode on newer RRS that makes it more car like on road.

Dunno, I test drove a 2012 SC last week, and I switched Dynamic on & off a few times and I couldn't really feel the difference.

Maybe it's because I was not used to the vehicle yet? --
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2015 Range Rover Sport Supercharged V8 HSE Dynamic



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scrumps wrote:

Hi,

I like:-;-

Dynamic Mode
Adaptive Cruise
The way the passenger seat stops moaning & groaning when SWMBO gets out.

I wish the last feature worked all the time!



Scrumps

On the Divorceography upgrade you get a button under the gear-lever knob for that  Robin
2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8
Gone:
Jaguar S-Type V8 4.2 Sport
MGZTT 190 2.5

I've been on this forum since May 2005 and almost every post that has been made in this thread has been a repeat of numerous posts that have gone before. You would be amazed over the years the number of ex-X5 and Toureg owners who initially wrote off the RRS as underpowered, unreliable, overpriced, distinctly "unsporty" (in the 2.7TDv6 form) and a footballer/drug baron wagon, yet a few years later they took the plunge and bought one and loved it ................ some of those guys are still members and on the 2nd or 3rd one too.
One of the best features of an RRS (and FFRR) is the way that it changes you driving style - now you are no longer in a headlong rush to get to the destination like 99% of BMW /Audi/Merc drivers you see are, the Range Rover ethos is to enjoy the drive and the ambiance inside the car and you don't mind stretching the journey a bit longer just because the cars are such nice places to be in on a longer journey and you tend to enjoy a journey more if you are comfortable and relaxed. Land Rover is very good at that even if the quality and fit and finish still needs a bit of work on to perfect the cars!

Oh and one thing I will guarantee is that, love it or loathe it, if you change to another marque of SUV or even to one of the lesser models in the family, you will for sure miss one little and often un-noticed thing you probably take for granted everyday and use - the left arm arm rest - I can assure you that it is one thing I really missed from my FFRR's and RRS's when I moved down to the Evoque before coming back to another RRS. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Eaters wrote:

scrumps wrote:

Hi,

I like:-;-

Dynamic Mode
Adaptive Cruise
The way the passenger seat stops moaning & groaning when SWMBO gets out.

I wish the last feature worked all the time!



Scrumps

On the Divorceography upgrade you get a button under the gear-lever knob for that

I thought it was on the options list as:-

Passenger windbag - DELETE.



Scrumps Somerset - Where the apples do grow and the cider do flow!
2021 Defender 90 D250 HSE in Tasman with white roof.
24MY D300 AB - Verasine Blue - 😀
19MY SDV6 AB - Byron Blue - Gone
17MY D5 SDV6 HSE - Firenze Red - Gone
16MY SDV6 AB -Aruba Silver - Gone
13.5MY SDV6 "HSE Black" - Baltic Blue - Gone
10MY TDV8 HSE Galway Green - Gone
14MY D4 HSE in Scotia Grey - Gone
05 TD5 D90 CSW in Cairns Blue

Ahh. Now I think of it you could be right!  Robin
2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8
Gone:
Jaguar S-Type V8 4.2 Sport
MGZTT 190 2.5

naks wrote:

RRSTDV8 wrote:

It's a driving mode on newer RRS that makes it more car like on road.

Dunno, I test drove a 2012 SC last week, and I switched Dynamic on & off a few times and I couldn't really feel the difference.

Maybe it's because I was not used to the vehicle yet?

You ain't driving it right, engage dynamic and sports mode, find a twisty road, open drivers window and plant your right foot then try and stop grinning.

Cheers
Col

On my L494 HSE-D if I only notice one thing (I do notice the handling changes) it is how much additional weight is in the steering. The handling is less noticable until you realize just how much faster you can do the twisty bits that when you are in a car without the system or have it switched off, you will notice very little just driving the car in town, on a dual carriageway or motorway, you have to take it on your favourite local twisty back roads or on roads in places like the Brecon Becons, West Coast of Scotland, Norway, The great mountain passes in Europe................. in those conditions the handling really does transform. But drive a FFRR back to back with an RRS HDE NON Dynamic and there is quite a noticable difference in how much better the RRS handles then the FFRR which feels like it going to fall over when driven quicker than it really wants to be. Sport+ Dynamic mode even in an SDv6 is an eye opener as to how an SUV can ride and handle............... must be fantastic in SVR and "ordinary" S/C 5.0ltr which react to the throttle much more quickly 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Oh and one thing I will guarantee is that, love it or loathe it, if you change to another marque of SUV or even to one of the lesser models in the family, you will for sure miss one little and often un-noticed thing you probably take for granted everyday and use - the left arm arm rest - I can assure you that it is one thing I really missed from my FFRR's and RRS's when I moved down to the Evoque before coming back to another RRS.[/quote]

That is so true i use that arm rest all the time, even on my d3! The little forgotten thing that you take for granted now.