Land Rover’s sleek Discovery Sport is updated for 2024 with a more modern luxury interior, latest tech and added functionality. It also stays true to its ten-year heritage.
The Sport was first shown to the public in 2014 and arrived in 2015 as Land Rover’s replacement for the Freelander. As such, it was officially a ‘compact’ SUV, at a time when the SUV category was white hot: more than 30 percent of new car sales was in this category.
Discovery Sport, sharing its mechanicals with the Range Rover Evoque, was the first of a new family of Land Rover SUVs. The Landie had decent body underguards, useful, though not ute-class approach and departure angles, a wading depth of 600mm and a terrain response system. From launch, it sat on Pirelli Scorpion tyres, which are head and shoulders ahead of pretty much any h/t tread. The wheels, then and now, are 20-inch aluminium alloy with
