2016 Discovery Sport spearheads more efficient Land Rovers

JLR's space-efficient, flexible SUV moves to JLR's new Ingenium modular engines.

The vast, volcanic, and starkly beautiful Highlands interior of Iceland is an ideal place to demonstrate the do-it-all capabilities of Land Rover's all-new Discovery Sport. Two days spent there last January testing early-VIN production vehicles in on-and off-road conditions gave Automotive Engineering and other media insight into the work lives of Land Rover engineers. For them, extreme departure angles, tricky split-µ surfaces, and icy-river fords are routine development stuff, as proven by how well their versatile new C-segment SUV performs off road.

However, Land Rover's 250-strong engineering team also delivered luxury-car levels of cabin noise and ride comfort on pavement, aimed at the majority of “Disco” Sport customers who will rarely, if ever, venture into the mud or engage low range.