For those who wish to quite literally have a blast in their Range Rover, Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations has designed and built its own in-house armoured model, the Sentinel.
The new Range Rover Sentinel is the first luxury armoured vehicle to be fully engineered by Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) – hand built at its Oxford Road facility, this new version of the Range Rover provides the highest levels of protection an SUV can offer against a wide variety of attacks.
The Sentinel is based on the standard wheelbase Range Rover Autobiography. It delivers the supreme comfort, command driving position and all-terrain capability of the Range Rover, while providing peace of mind thanks to outstanding occupant protection and, outwardly, looking identical to the standard model.
This mobile fortress is designed to withstand the most damaging and targeted of threats including penetration by 7.62mm high velocity, armour piercing incendiary bullets. The vehicle delivers lateral protection against up to 15kg Trinitrotoluene (TNT) blasts and defence against DM51 grenade explosions from both beneath the floor and above the roof.
John Edwards, Managing Director of Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations, said: ‘The Range Rover Sentinel is one of the most extraordinary Range Rovers ever produced. It has been expertly engineered by Special Vehicle Operations to provide class leading levels of protection to occupants against extreme attack, whilst retaining the Range Rover’s luxury and refinement with off road capability.’
Moving on to Rover and then PSV / HGV, he has circumnavigated most departments of dealerships including parts, service and latterly - the showroom. Mike has owned all sorts of rubbish from Lada to Leyland and also holds both Heavy Goods & Public Service Vehicle licences, he buys & sells buses and coaches during the week. Mike runs his own automotive web site and writes for a number of motoring or commercial vehicle themed publications
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The NIO are fond of armoured Rangies and Discos, when VIPs come to visit. This’ll no doubt be on their shopping list.
“oh yeah, they’re makin’ ’em these days. For oilmen, diplomats… and hoods!”
Interesting that JLR are calling the new SVO facility ‘Oxford Road’ rather than ‘Ryton’ – they obviously don’t want anybody making a connection with the previous Peugeot plant on the site !