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Production Land Rover Discovery Sport Revealed via Scale Model

Every now and then, the scale model world offers us a glimpse into the near-future, revealing a car before this is actually shown. The time has come for yet another leak of this kind and we are now talking about the Land Rover Discovery Sport.
Land Rover Discovery Sport scale model 1 photo
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While we’ve seen the crossover covered by camouflage, thanks to both spyshots and the carmaker’s teasing game, this is the first time we see the car naked. The production version doesn’t stray all that far from the lines of the Discovery Vision Concept.

We still have to wait and see the actual car, but it looks like the final result may be a bit more vague in terms of presence compared to what we expected.

The Discovery Sport will do much more than just replace the Freelander / LR2, as it marks an upmarket move for the company, as well as the introduction of a small family of models. The one you see here will be the first and it’s set to hit the market next year. The current Discovery offroader will be replaced by a member of this new family.

At least in the UK, the vehicle will come as standard with a five plus two seat configuration, thus mixing the premium aura with a high level of practicality.

The Discovery Sport, which will be brought to the world at the Halewood factory, in the proximity of Liverpool, features an all-new aluminum platform. The promise here is that the car will shine both on the road, but also off it, staying true to Land Rover’s rugged terrain legacy.

In the engine compartment, we’ll see members of the future Jaguar Ingenum four-cylinder powerplant family, but details are scarce at the moment. At the top of the range, we may find one of the current engines in the Jaguar Land Rover portfolio. We’re expecting that role to go to the three-liter supercharged V6 or the 285 hp two-liter turbo in the Evoque Autobiography Dynamic.
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