Category: Large 4x4s 
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Astounding ability off-road, and vastly improved for onroad duty. Unique character has also been successfully updated.
This is a heavy car, which begins to show when you're really pressing on. And that weight will mean higher fuel consumption, especially with the petrol V8.
No question about it, Land Rover has created one of the most desirable off-roaders on sale with the new Discovery. Nothing will beat it off-road, and with vastly improved space and on-road manners, the Disco really rocks.
The new Discovery deploys every conceivable electronic aid to make sure that the car stays out of the scenery (unless you choose to stick it there). There is electronic traction control to make sure that grip is as good as it can, a stability control program to help prevent an over or understeer moment. For off-roading, there's Land Rover's Hill Descent Control, which enables drivers to negotiate terrifyingly steep and slippery slopes with the software figuring out where the grip is and how to exploit it. There is also the availability of headlights that 'look' around the corner, working in conjunction with the steering angle.
Along with a very strong structure, the Disco has up to eight airbags, including full length curtain airbags for the first and second row of seats, as well as an additional two airbags in the third row when fitted. Shame, then, that it didn't get the full five stars for overall occupant protection in the Euro NCAP crash tests, scoring four. It did score four stars (out of four) in the child occupant protection tests, which is excellent, but then blotted its copybook by scoring just one star for pedestrian protection.
