Land Rover Discovery Sport SUV 2015-2019 review - Carbuyer

The Discovery boasts Evoque-inspired style, efficient engines, seven seats and a surprisingly good-value price. Is all that enough to give it the nod over rivals? Ginny Buckley finds out.

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[daininsurance]

Had one of these as a loaner when my 14' sport was getting worked on. It drives like a dream and corners extremely well, didn't even feel like I was driving at all

[ZanzibarFar]

Have to say, in that orange & black, this looks amazing!

[MrVoayer]

Highly persuasive ! Ginny with her arguments and Land Rover with its features.

[shroomyesc]

A good reason to buy this over the Evoque (at least in Finland) is that range and land rover have the same image anyway and this is just 3k more expensive than an evoque.

[LordLort]

Why is the video Unlisted? It's a great review, would be a shame it not so many people saw it

[apoorvappychoudhary]

Nice review !!! Very informative. good job! ☺️

[MarkB]

Great review, really natural presenting 👍

[hassankhan]

You didn’t mention anything about the fuel economy or refinement, two very important factors

[vladdefence]

Test drive one to decide to buy or not. Fortunately previously I tested a Q5 and I could see the difference. LR was full of nasty plastic inside. Much better quality the Q5. And the price was about 61800euro the LR and 64500 euro the Q5. So not much difference and Q5 had LED matrix headlights on it. Driving in city seemed about the same. Just more quiet in the Q5 and the adaptive suspension was good on potholes. I bought the Q5. German is German. Yes the stereotype it still alive and well and for good reasons.

[Radders]

That secret compartment is hardly a 'secret' anymore is it?!... ;-)

[mikekouroumichalis]

I found the review more then enough! Keep the good work.

[ragingsilver]

Same width and length as a VW Golf?! Just checked the dimensions of both cars, the Discovery Sport is still much bigger.

[phaedrusk]

At least the rear number plate is not offset!

[Clavinovaman]

*Wait for the facelift in 2018.*
New centre console, revised door casings, new lights, new alloys, digital dials and new front and rear design accents. New colours inside and outside, with the likely withdrawal of Granite interior colour.
Disco Sport 2 is *already* in early stage development, pencilled in for late 2020. Likely to be exactly the same size as this car.

[cobregang]

whats with the 80's horror movie music

[GiacoC]

I work in manfucture of these lights. Seeing every day hundreds of these being manufacture right next to my office for past 2years.
Funny thing participate on creating something this beautiful....but won't be ever able to afford it :D And I'm not even talking about people working on assembly lines who have pay much lower than mine.

[DrOneOneOne]

I work with some JLR people. The infotainment system on the Disco is apparently so bad one guy's kids asked if they could go back to their old DVD player. You're not going to see Apple carplay anytime soon either. The bug list on their infotainment system is so extensive they're too embarrassed to provide it to Apple as part of the carplay licensing arrangement.

[thecynicalafro]

the only time i ever preferred black wheels.

[viralpatel]

Great review but the choice of background music is very unusual.

[piperbob]

What are owners' experiences on long-term reliability ? I visited my cousin in Perth, Australia in 2013, for just five days, and their Disco started emitting blue/black smoke, and had to been returned for repairs.