Land Rover likes to set records a with a 550bhp V8 engine under the bonnet the high performance Range Rover Sport SVR is doing just that.

The model, priced at £95,900, is the fastest Land Rover in production and despite weighing 2.3 tonnes it boasts a Porsche-like 0-62mph sprint time of just 4.5 seconds.

But in order to prove a point, Land Rover has just put the SVR to the sprint test once again, but this time it was off road.

With standard Michelin 275/45 R21 All Season tyres and with Darren Jones, an expert Jaguar Land Rover test driver at the wheel, the vehicle was tasked with performing on a variety of treacherous surfaces ranging from grass and gravel to sand and snow.

The amazing results showed the SVR was capable of 0 to 62mph on gravel in 5.3 seconds, 5.5 seconds over grass and sand, 6.5 seconds on rocks, and even on a snow and ice field in Sweden it managed to complete the run in just 11.3 seconds.

Land Rover came up with the exercise to demonstrate the capabilities of Land Rover’s latest computerised Terrain Response 2 system – a multi-mode drive control designed to give optimum traction in varying conditions.

The Range Rover Sport SVR’s first challenge was the start-finish straight at Europe’s fastest racing circuit, Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, Northamptonshire, where in dynamic mode it achieved the target speed in 4.7 seconds.

Then it completed the other test runs at a number of locations including the Land Rover East of England Experience, the company’s winter test facility in Arjeplog, northern Sweden and at Pendine Sands in south Wales – scene of world land speed record runs since 1924.

The SVR model is the flagship of the Range Rover Sport line-up and was developed by Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations team based in Coventry. Since its release in 2015 nearly 1,000 SVR models have been sold in the UK.