TEASED! First Look At The All-New, Land Rover Discovery — Initial Thoughts?

While the company’s Evoque, Range Rover Sport and Range Rover have been on fire from a sales perspective, their sibling has been overlooked. We think that may change. 

That’s because Land Rover has distributed an image of the all-new Discovery. Our British friends gave us a bit of transparency, too. It will officially be a seven-seat vehicle for the marque. Given that the Discovery Sport and Range Rover Sport’s third rows are laughable — at best — this is welcome news as we're hoping this will be a proper three-row SUV. 

Initial spy shots that have captured the Discovery during testing in recent months depict a rather large vehicle though truth be told its quite narrow and tall. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to folks who have been admirers of the Discovery for the past 20 or so years. 

Sales will begin in the U.S. market mid 2017. Its world premiere will take place at this year’s 2016 Paris Motor Show, which happens on September 28.




Land Rover's press release follows:

LAND ROVER TO DEBUT ALL NEW DISCOVERY SUV

 

–       First image released of the Land Rover Discovery full-sized, seven-seat SUV

–       Land Rover Discovery to feature leading versatility, capability and technology

–       Land Rover Discovery family of SUVs expands to two 7-Seat models: Discovery and Discovery Sport

–       On sale in U.S. in mid-2017, All New Discovery continues the Land Rover Above and Beyond journey

–       New Discovery world premiere to take place on September 28, 2016, ahead of the Paris Motor Show

 

(LONDON, UK) - September 5, 2016 - The new Land Rover Discovery will have its world premiere on September 28, ahead of the Paris Motor Show. The Discovery full size 7-passenger SUV embodies the Land Rover Above and Beyond ethos, combining British desirability with an unstoppable spirit of adventure. 

 

Gerry McGovern, Land Rover Chief Design Officer, said, “The new Discovery redefines the large SUV. Land Rover’s design and engineering teams have revolutionised the Discovery DNA to create a highly desirable, extremely versatile and hugely capable premium SUV.”

 

Follow the Discovery story at: http://media.landrover.com/en-us

 

Fans and customers can register their interest at:

http://www.landroverusa.com

valhallakey - 9/7/2016 2:09:37 AM

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Looks like the discovery sport. They really should have stuck to a more rugged look for the Land Rover line and had Range Rover line be the more trendy styled and luxurious line.

jameswisrik - 9/7/2016 7:59:11 AM

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RR/LR...can look as tough as it wants....but still unreliable as hell! I wouldn't drive it any furhter than 15milles from the dealership!

MDarringer - 9/7/2016 8:28:19 AM

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And that is the on-going problem with Jaguar and Land Rover Range Rover. While reliability has improved it still is way below the Germans which are below Lexus and Genesis too.

USNA1999 - 9/7/2016 10:02:30 AM

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@MDarringer please stop putting Genesis and Lexus together in the same sentences. Lexus is a established brand that has proven itself, depending on who you talk to it might be Tier 1 luxury. Genesis by no means its on the same league, they might be stealing Lexus strategy but they don't have the reliability, quality or prestige of a Lexus. You are the only person on this board selling that Kool Aid. genesis is just like VW wanting to be considered a luxury brand. That is FACT.

valhallakey - 9/7/2016 10:54:31 PM

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Respectfully disagree. My personal experience has been quite good. My wife bought an Evoque 2 years ago, 33k miles ago. Sunglasses holder was the only issue. A friend has a RR sport for 18 months, not sure on the miles. No issues I know of. On the other hand we had a Honda Accord years ago and it was nothing but problems, CV joints/covers, overheating, seat belt retractors etc... The German cars I have owned all stone cold reliable. American cars - hard to say since 2 out of 4 were older muscle cars and one was a well used Jeep. The one new one a 2000 Dodge Durango was really good other than an occasional check engine light due to the gas cap not being tightened correctly and you could not reset it except at the dealer.. However the engine let go at 70k miles while I was overseas and a friend was driving it.

w222 - 9/8/2016 12:31:01 PM

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well you and your buddies lucked out. I would go with the statistics instead of trying my luck. But regardless, wealthy clients will still buy LR anyway.