First Drive: Land Rover Discovery Sport 'Ingenium' - Top Gear
Hasn’t Land Rover only just launched the Discovery Sport. A good engine. With 190bhp, the old 2. 2-litre wasn’t short on power, but it was short on economy, only returning 44. 9mpg and 166g/km of CO2 when rivals such as the BMW X3 2. 0d were capable of 56. 5mpg and 131g/km. The four cylinder diesel was also a rackety old thing, not in keeping with the otherwise highly polished performance of the Discovery Sport. So now there’s a new engine. So now there’s a new engine. The same 2. 0-litre four cylinder single turbo Ingenium engine that’s also found behind the grille of the new Jaguar XE. It’s less powerful (148 or 178bhp), more torquey (up 7lb ft to 317lb ft for the more potent one) and a lot cleaner – it... 7mpg figures only apply to the entry-level Disco Sport, which has 4wd, but is equipped with the lower powered version of the engine, a manual gearbox only and has had to ditch the third row of seats in order to save a crucial few kilos and get... Land Rover believes that model (available in three trim levels and priced from £30,695) will claim 15 per cent of sales this year, with that percentage rising in future. 3mpg and 139g/km. Good, but not quite as good as the BMW I mentioned earlier. Source: www.topgear.com
