Good day to all,

I was hoping somebody could assist me in this matter,

I am looking to purchase an SVR and stumbled across an 2015 5.0 autobiography Dynamic according to the listing, on close inspection of the pictures I saw that in fact it is an SVR. Some minutes later I call up the approved land rover dealership and speak to a lady who apparently is in sales, she tells me its an 5.0 autobiography Dynamic with additional modifications. I however am looking at an SVR hence I said I am no longer interested.

Around 2 hours later I get a phone call from the same approved LR dealership and a gentlemen said that the car I was looking at previously is in fact an SVR but the lady just started "and she doesn't know what she is talking about". He claims to have sold RR for many years.

I ask why its description both on a popular car search engine and their own website its listed as 5.0 autobiography Dynamic and not as an SVR. He said that because its one of first models to arrive as SVR's they did not have SVR as a description for the v5 form.

He did send me a video of the car and every part of the car is SVR, including the bodykit, blue brake callipers, 22 inch wheels. Loud exhaust button, and even the digital dash had the SVR theme. I asked him whether he can provide some proof and he did send me a warranty printing of the car where it does state its an SVR.

Just wanted to hear your thoughts about this matter.

Get the VIN and plug it in Topix - that will give you the definitive answer  --
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If you can’t get the vin pm me the reg & I’ll get it for you.But by the description it does sound like a svr,their is a few RRS2’s with the kit fitted but they never go as far as fitting seats & the exhaust button.I have also seen a few svr’s on the LR approved site with autobiography in the description & even the other way round,,some of these salesmen don’t know the difference in a RRS & a ford KA. Andy.
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I just checked on Topix and it comes as 5.0 V8 SC PETROL SERIES. The salesman said that this car is not registered as SVR on its Vin number because it was one of the earliest SVR's in the country. Please note from a price perspective its in the SVR range not in the range of a Autobiography 5.0 litre. It also has the bucket seats one will find in an SVR both in the front and in the back. Just thinking if I was to buy it tomorrow will I have difficulty in selling it due it not stating SVR in its VIN number.

You might also have a problem insuring it.......... looks like an SVR but isn’t could be a problem for most mainstream insurers. I wonder if what it really is is an ex Press Fleet car for the pre-launch of SVR, in which case it is quite a special car as those usually get scrapped. I was once offered a Disco3 V8 two weeks after launch, it had a very weird spec with options that never came to be offered on production cars and it had nearly 20,000 miles on it! Turned out to have been a test mule used by a local land owner who had been given it by JLR to run into the ground testing its off road ability - it ended up being crushed. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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