Land Rover Discovery Sport, motoring review: A car for crossing a stream to ... - The Independent
The Land Rover Discovery Sport is a curious beast. It replaces the no-nonsense Freelander in the firm's line-up, but is badged as a larger Discovery and sits on the same running gear as the massively successful Range Rover Evoque. For its part, the baby Range Rover, as the Evoque has become known, faced suggestions that it's more of an automotive handbag than a proper off-roader. And that's where the new Discovery Sport comes in, as a larger, seven-seat, more practical affair that the firm is pitching at what it describes as the "leisure" part of the off-road market. The idea then wasn't to create a stylish accessory (Evoque) or £100k Bentley rival (Range Rover) but something you'll drive down to Cornwall in with your body-boards on the roof. This means that it has been optimised for off-road use, with a 60cm wade depth for river crossing and four settings in its four-wheel-drive terrain response system: general, grass/gravel/snow, mud, and ruts and sand. There is hope, though, as you can now order (for delivery in September) the Discovery Sport with Land Rover's new Ingenium four-cylinder engines. very few of us really need an off-roader and the reason that the Range Rover has done so well. Source: www.independent.co.uk
