Monthly Update for June 2018 - 2017 Land Rover Discovery Long-Term Road Test


Our long-term 2017 Land Rover Discovery has a nicer interior than some of our homes and it's nearly as roomy. There's even a nifty drop-down tailgate for, well, tailgating. But we recently learned that maintaining a Discovery isn't cheap.
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I can't get a full feel for the terrain in the first picture but articulation doesn't look all that impressive. You can find pictures of previous versions of this car with some pretty significant articulation. Here we see a wheel pretty high in the air where a predecessor would have it closer to the ground (if not on the ground). Does this matter? I don't know. You see cars getting through tough spots in different ways. Terrain management software is doing a great job these days getting cars where they want to go with 3 (2?) wheels doing the work. But the hardware in this Discovery just seems less capable than before. And, if that's the case, how do you justify 16mpg?