Long-lived SUV arrives with a new six-pot and extremely luxurious trim
The fifth-generation Land Rover Discovery is a seven-seat premium SUV with apparent staying power. First announced in 2016, and hitting UK roads in early 2017, it will shortly celebrate its 10th anniversary, with no confirmed plan for a replacement model as yet.Its 10-year life cycle has brought major powertrain changes and plenty of interior and exterior design tweaks. Not to mention one almost unheard of rarity among modern passenger cars: a wholesale relocation of its production base. The Discovery 5 was built in Solihull, alongside the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport, for the first couple of years of its life. Then, in 2018, production was relocated to Nitra, Slovenia, where the Defender would later be built alongside it.But not since the car’s arrival in spring 2017 has the Autocar road test lavished any more attention on this long-serving, versatile and slightly unassuming big Land Rover. That is a situation we will now rectify, as we focus on a powertrain that the car inherited only relatively recently, and a new flagship trim level that, Land Rover claims, makes for the most luxurious Discovery yet.
