Snow king: Land Rover Discovery Sport - Fortune
They have the footprint of a smaller sedan, but generally give enough clearance to drive over humps of snow, especially in models that are available as all-wheel-drive. All of which leaves Tata-owned Land Rover in a very sweet spot. The company is releasing a 2015-year compact SUV it calls the Discovery Sport, with sticker prices starting around $38,000. At such a relatively inexpensive price, the luxury carmaker expects the Discovery Sport to become its volume player. (The priciest HSE Luxury model starts at more than $46,000. ). After several days of testing, I can confirm that it really can handle inclement weather, living up to Land Rover’s rough-and-ready reputation. If you can drive it there, you can drive it anywhere. (Though when I tested the Discovery Sport in January, the temperatures in New York were colder than those in the hinterlands of Iceland. The Sport, as I’ll call it, is actually an all-new and rebadged version of the LR2 model. In the States, the LR2 was under-marketed and rather unloved, the almost Land Rover. And when Land Rover released the stylish, compact Evoque, it made the LR2 seem even sadder. After all, does Land Rover need two compact SUVs in its portfolio. Source: fortune.com
