THE sports utility vehicle (SUV) market has expanded substantially since Land Rover first launched its Discovery 26 years ago. Today, it has to compete with models like the Audi Q7, BMW X5, Mercedes GLE and Volvo XC90.It even has a rival from within its own Jaguar Land Rover stable in the form of the Jag F-Pace and there can be no arguing that it has also lost a few school-run sales to the smaller Range Rover Evoque.Unlike the X5 and F-Pace, the Discovery has always been about more than luxury. It is a Land Rover after all and this means offroad ability.Today Discovery is no longer one model, with the advent of the Discovery Sport.The company is also promising another model will wear the Discovery badge too, but there can be only one real model and that is about to become something very new entirely.These are the first pictures to show the fifth-generation model virtually undisguised. Snapped by our spies outside the company’s testing facility in Germany, it bears a close resemblanc...
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