The Corvette-engined 570 S was among the original performance SUVs. Fancy a project?
Among all the magazine tests this car has featured in when new there is a wonderful extract that poses a timely question: ‘Does a Range Rover really need sports car performance and if it does are there many people who are prepared to pay extra for it?’ The year was 1988. The answer, we know now, was emphatically ‘yes’. Or yes to the second question at any rate - whether or not a Range Rover preciselyBack in the ‘80s, of course, people were even less convinced.
According to another choice bit of coverage, the engine had already been deployed in a previous model dubbed the Schuler 570T, but alongside the new name - and after what was claimed to be five years of development - the 570 S increased output to around 285hp thanks to a superior compression ratio and a higher lift camshaft. The result, mated to a beefier four-speed torque converter from the Corvette, had 350lb ft of torque to call on from 3,000rpm.
Or at least that’s what it would do. Today the car needs a little TLC to get it back to something approaching its best. It’s inevitably spent some time off the road in the last decade while it languished in a large connection, and the dealer has only had it running recently via a slave fuel supply. But the good news is that it probably doesn’t need any welding and save for a bit of corrosion on the door frames, it should make for a solid project.
The upshot of throwing yet more time and money at it is easy to imagine based not just on the car’s unique provenance, but also the fact that it provides such a handy blueprint to work from. The Motor article suggests the 570 S also earned ‘enormous ventilated front discs’ and had 1.5 inches trimmed from the coil springs to reduce the ride height while compressor-driven air struts were used to provide a primitive anti-roll system. Talk about foreshadowing.
And check this out. ‘Fatter tyres, lower ride height: they’re only the visual clues to the true nature of the Overfinch beast. Q-car disguises come no more potent than this. I undertook some of the most seriously rapid B-road driving of my life in this car.’ That from David Vivian , who knew a thing or two about rapid.
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