Range Rover Sport desert-bashing exploits now on video

Land Rover recently took the Range Rover Sport to the Empty quarter Desert to set a timed record and we have documentary film of the adventure.

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Last month we reported on an adventure for the Range Rover Sport (to add to its recent Pikes Peak jaunt), with Land Rover taking the new Sport off to the Empty Quarter Desert in Saudi Arabia (which also runs through  Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen) to see if they could cross it in a day.

The Empty Quarter – the largest sand desert in the world – has endless miles (well, 500 miles) of hostile sand and dunes and temperatures as high as 50C – so it was quite a task.

Land Rover enlisted Dakar Rally man Moi Torrallardona to take the driver’s seat and he managed to take the RRS through the Empty quarter in just 10 hours 22 minutes at an average speed of 51.7 mph. Quite a feat.

Moi Torrallardona said:

The Empty Quarter was an incredible challenge and one that will live with me for the rest of my life. The Range Rover Sport was the ideal tool for conquering the desert and it is great to be able to relive the challenge through this short documentary.

The Empty Quarter provided a unique test for a standard production vehicle and thanks to the ability of the Range Rover Sport we came out victorious.

The video has some quite spectacular footage from inside and outside the Sport as Torrallardona takes on the Empty Quarter, with footage of the RRS demolishing all in its path – from big expanses of flat sand to steep dunes and even stray camels – and is testament to the abilities of the new Range Rover Sport.

Makes you want to go out, grab a new Range Rover Sport and find a desert to attack.