What is it?
That the new Land Rover Discovery has a whiff of Range Rover about it should come as no surprise given that it shares its underpinnings with the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport.
When you see a Range Rover next to a new Discovery, sit in the respective cabins, look at the price lists for certain models and go for an off-road drive, as we have been doing in a late prototype in Scotland, those first impressions of the car are only reinforced.
Watch our video review of the production version of the Discovery
But then you head into the back and start to play with the rearmost five seats. In a Range Rover you can’t collapse the electronically powered, individual seats to create a space the size of a decent studio flat, or leave them all up and have five full-size adults sit with as much head and leg room as they’ll ever need, their own individual storage, seat heaters and phone chargers and still have room for a couple of bags in the boot. That sounds much more like a Discovery.
So it is a Discovery, then, only much lighter than before, in certain version by up to 480kg, which is such a saving that a four-cylinder Ingenium diesel engine with 237bhp is now offered alongside the carry-over 254bhp diesel and 355bhp petrol 3.0-litre V6s.
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cousinbillybob
Is it..?
sputnik
Size matters
It is a very large machine just like the older model.
Bullfinch
Shame it looks like all the others.
Ruperts Trooper
Off-road ability
Cheltenhamshire
Nobody cares what it drives like!
Gerry McGovern actually lives in his own soundbite and marketing speak cave located inside his own bottom.
Marc
Cheltenhamshire wrote:
Excellent, couldn't have said it better. The guy is a legend.
Downunder
Ruperts Trooper
Downunder
Co2 and Consumption
Marc
Downunder wrote:
They may just be more accurate (or honest).
Ski Kid
the stop start had been done on old model
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