![]() ![]() ![]() In-car tech features include rear-seat entertainment screens, wi-fi, surround-view cameras and head-up display. So despite being one of the more functional options in the SUV class, the Discovery wants for few premium-brand refinements. Material richness and perceived quality are both very good, albeit perhaps not quite class-leading. Storage cubbies are hidden in places you least expect to find them – behind the ventilation controls and under sliding cupholders – and yet the car can also be equipped with the most up-to-date luxury features such as massage, climate-controlled Windsor leather seats, four-zone climate control and a chilled drinks compartment. Overall, this Discovery’s cabin walks the line between functional pragmatism and premium-brand luxuriousness even more skilfully than before. That saves an awful lot of time and plenty of wrestling with catches and levers. This enables all five rearmost seats to be folded out or away remotely using a smartphone app, or from the infotainment console or from the boot opening. And on top of all this, the Discovery offers intelligent seat- folding technology as an option on most trim levels. Its boot is among the class’s biggest, too. So as a seven-seater for adult passengers, the Discovery remains unbeatable. Our test car’s third-row seats were also heated and had their own Isofix points and USB points for charging electronic devices. In row three, the Discovery is head and shoulders more spacious than its rivals. At their rearmost position, each middle-row seat affords enough space to beat a Q7, although here, again, the XC90 is king on leg room. The second row is split 60/40, each portion sliding fore and aft as well as folding. You sit high in the Discovery, but there’s only up to 1070mm of leg room behind the wheel, whereas an XC90 gives you 1140mm – something well worth noting if you’re particularly tall.Īs you move backwards, though, the standard of practicality rapidly improves. So it may come as a surprise that however generous the head room it affords its driver, it’s only averagely accommodating for maximum front leg room. Otherwise the permanent, adaptive four-wheel drive system is identical.Ĭompared with the Discovery 4, Land Rover has decreased ground clearance by 27mm, but wading depth has increased by 200mm.įour-corner adjustable air suspension features, in conjunction with front double wishbones and a rear multi-link layout that retains Gaydon’s characteristic integral link.īoth are mounted on steel subframes designed to withstand knocks and bangs should you finally overcome half a metre of wheel articulation.īut irrespective of that, the expectation is that this will be just about the most spacious SUV on the road, because that’s the niche Land Rover has carved for it. Sequential twin turbochargers coax 237bhp from the direct-injected 2.0-litre diesel, although it will be the range-best 171g/km of CO2 and 43.5mpg combined economy that distinguish the engine for most buyers.Įvery engine is mated to a ZF eight-speed automatic gearbox as standard, and you can add a two-speed transfer box for low-range gearing, which chiefly differentiates the Discovery from the single-speed Range Rover Sport. Now a four is back in the form of the latest and most powerful variant of the Ingenium family, alongside a revamped 254bhp 3.0-litre diesel V6 and a 335bhp supercharged 3.0-litre petrol V6. In early iterations the Discovery was offered with four-cylinder engines, but as it moved through life cycles it ended up as a six-cylinder-only option. The drastic reduction in mass has permitted Gaydon to overhaul the engine line-up. Make what you will of the vehicle’s appearance – Land Rover is adamant that the softening of the previous model’s idiosyncratic lines was essential to broadening its appeal – but the new architecture brings more interior space as a result of a longer wheelbase and the better all-round performance that comes with a weight loss of up to 480kg, depending on model. Yet it was heavy and technically complicated to manufacture, making its replacement with current shared architecture as inevitable as the styling rethink. ![]() The amalgamation of a unitary body (incorporating the engine bay and passenger cell) with a ladder frame was ideal for the peculiar combination of durability and imperiousness that made the Discovery famous. ![]()
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