This feature alerts the driver when the vehicle is approaching its maximum wading depth. Each vehicle is equipped with all-wheel drive, All Terrain Progress Control (off-road cruise control), hill descent control, and Terrain Response 2 drive modes (Rock Crawl, General Driving, Grass/Gravel/Snow, Mud and Ruts, and Sand). This Land Rover is well-suited for traversing off road. The Discovery Sport has a fairly comfortable ride, but theres excessive body lean when turning. This Land Rover gets an EPA-estimated 19 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway, which is subpar for a luxury compact SUV.
You either have your foot on the gas and no go, or in a matter of a few milliseconds, you get such a surge of power that you find yourself saying 'Whoa, Nelly!' Adding insult to injury is the nine-speed automatic transmission that is neither smooth nor responsive." - Consumer Reports (2020) "Driving the Discovery Sport is an all or nothing proposition.It takes a moment for the turbo to kick in (and for the 9-speed automatic to downshift a gear or two) before the Discovery Sport shoots ahead." - Kelley Blue Book "The engine can be noisy at times." - Autotrader.This Land Rover can struggle to get up to speed under the weight of the vehicle, and there is noticeable turbo lag. Also, the transmission is hesitant to downshift. The Discovery Sport's engine gets the job done, but it feels underpowered at times and can be noisy when pushed hard. Engine: 246-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder.+The Sport conquered deep snow, frozen roads and icy rivers with ease." - Autotrader (2020)Įngine Options, Horsepower, and Acceleration."The 2.0-liter feels underpowered and raspy when gunned hard." - Autoweek (2020)."The Land Rover Discovery Sport, in spite of its name, isnt especially sporty." - Kelley Blue Book.And yes, that was attempting different ‘launch styles’ and taking into account half a tank of fuel and me. As for acceleration from rest, the official number is 7.9 seconds, and try as I might, I could only manage 8.8. All a bit of a moot point really for a car like this, though I suspect it probably would do the official figure if you had a 10-mile straight and enough time at the other end to brake. In terms of speed, I haven’t been able to test to the purported 136mph top end, though I did go moderately quickly at the track, and acceleration tails off significantly after about 110mph. So not ridiculously far off the quoted figure, and very dependent on how urgently you bomb away from rest, and how fast you cruise. In reality, mixed usage and my usual tame driving style offers up around 34.5mpg. Off road it dropped even further (26.4), bizarrely to roughly the same level as a few laps of a racetrack. It’s supposed to do 38.4mpg combined according to the manufacturer’s website (that’s in 7-seat R-Dynamic trim like this one), but I got a high of 44.1mpg, and a low (town use) of 28.1. The trip computer is generally 10-12-per cent generous it seems, so I’ve been doing the old fill-trip-fill measures. This past week has been relatively simple: I’ve done speed and miles-per-gallon tests (urban, cruising, combined), including 50 miles of the A1 at a steady 56mph in Eco mode - cruise control is horrendous for best-mpg by the way - three laps of Peterborough town centre (yeah, it looked dodgy) and the rest of the tank doing ‘normal’ usage. As I have already mentioned/warned, testing has been lightly unscientific in the most scientific way possible for an employee of Top Gear. Also, I’m not especially coherent at the best of times, so some of it has been slightly random.Īnd so it has begun - a month-long investigation into just how the DiscoBall operates in the real world, conceived to see if cars actually do anything near what you expect once released from the pages of a magazine review or website rundown. This has proven more complicated than it seems. What you realistically expect from your car, given the sales pitch. Given that the Disco Sport has spent only 8k+ miles on the road with me in six months, and the fact that that inter-continental (not to mention global) travel is still a bit wonky, I’ve decided to spend some time really digging deep into what it means when you read a brochure. Usually, a longer-term Top Gear Garage resident in my care would end up doing something silly, usually a good few miles away in a completely different country.
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