The highly anticipated Range Rover Sport SVR has laid down the gauntlet to all other power hungry SUVs. Range Rover has released a statement claiming its405 kW, 5-litre supercharged beast of an SUV has lapped the Nordschleife in an amazing 8 minutes and 14 seconds.

The Nordschleife has been used for years as a testing ground for manufacturers to bed-in future products. Its combination of undulations, bumps and corners make it a serious test for a vehicle’s chassis. There’s also the lap time factor which, manufacturers use as bragging rights over competitors.

Range Rover Sport SVR

The Range Rover Sport SVR’s time is particularly special seeing that the car weighs around 2.3 tons and has the drag coefficient of a cinema – it’s not the most aerodynamic car. We’ve had a look at the lap time board at the Nordschleife and it would seem that the SVR is now the fastest SUV to hit the track.

Not too many of its competitors have set a lap there yet as the next best SUV we can see is a Chevrolet Ute – if you can call that an SUV at 8 minutes 20 seconds.

The Range Rover Sport SVR is set to make its debut in early 2015. You can see a few teaser videos of it hereor watch the normal Range Rover Sport drag race against a BMW X5 M50d.