Range Rover has long been at the top of the tree for 4x4s, despite many rivals trying to knock it off its lofty pedestal. As a Range Rover enthusiast, you can rest assured that this should always remain the case.

The great thing about the brand is that the combination of a powerful Range Rover engine and precision engineering has enabled it to be a vehicle capable of great things.

Of course, you probably don’t have ambitions for your rebuild that quite extend to the feats of great stunt drivers, like the successful ascent of the 45-degree ‘Stairway to Heaven’ at Tianmen Mountain in the Chinese province of Hubei seven years ago, or the successful Range Rover Sport ascent of the world’s biggest dam of its kind in Iceland.

These achievements were pretty extreme and the death-defying Icelandic feat was achieved by Jessica Hawkins, a stunt driver in Bond films, so you may want your adventures to be a little more modest.

What Can A New Engine Help Your Range Rover Achieve?

Nonetheless, it is worth considering the sheer power involved. The engine in the Range Rover Sport that scaled the dam featured a 530 hp V8 twin turbo engine, so powerful that it can do 0-100 in 4.3 seconds.

You probably won’t be fitting anything quite so awesome in your own Range Rover at home, but you can get something that will raise the level of power and acceleration way beyond anything you had before.

A high-quality V8 engine will give you plenty of great adventures, even if they don’t quite take you up a dam or to the top of Heaven’s Gate.Other SUV makers can’t quite seem to match the engineering or motoring feats of Range Rover. A recent attempt by Chinese SUV maker Chery to emulate the Heaven’s Gate feat ended in humiliation as the vehicle crashed and they were left with a large repair bill for the damaged 999-step stairway.