LET’S SEE JUST WHAT IT CAN DO

I’m glad the first question was “could you explain SVO for us?”, because I’m never entirely sure that it has the clarity of some alternatives.

I understand Mercedesamg, BMW M and even Q by Aston Martin. But is SVO a classic division, a developer of high-performance niche models, a coachbuilder, a restorer, a competition department or something else? Apparently, yes.

Maybe that’s all fine, although I think you have to work quite hard to get into it to understand everything that SVO does.

When it comes to bespoke SVO cars in future, though (currently badged SV, SVR, Project ‘x’ and maybe even SVX at some stage), I wonder how that will work.

I get that I would want an SV Jaguar or Land Rover with a 5.0-litre V8 and turned up to eleventy. Will an SV EV be the same but with stronger motors and more torque vectoring? And would that be enough? I’m intrigued to find out.