Not sure why our steering wheel has an extra chrome trim around the rim. Thankfully LR has stuck with proper rotary heater dials. Piano-black centre panel is permanently covered in smudges and fingerprints. Cream hasn’t discoloured and wipes down well. An £80 option that’s worth it.įacia and doors are trimmed with a diamond-dimpled surface that still looks good, despite my 21-year-old son putting his feet up before I have time to yell at him. The ‘Natural Shadow Oak veneer’ inserts are a modern, classy highlight in the overall scheme. I have it split: fuel on the left, map on the right, revcounter in the middle. And the stupid.īinnacle screen is configurable. Petrol stations are ruthless when it comes to preying on the weak and desperate. So I pulled into our local Shell station and ended up paying £19.99 for 10 litres – double what I could have paid if I’d shopped around. In other words, if I stopped the Discovery Sport it was going to refuse to re-start. The Sport is glugging 10 litres of ‘diesel exhaust fluid’ every 3500 miles, and this month I ran so low (ignoring the yellow warning messages) I eventually got a bright red ‘Engine Starts No Longer Possible’ alarm. My price per mile has rocketed from 16.7p last summer to 29.1p now.įactor in that I got stung for AdBlue this month, and I’m starting to wonder if I shouldn’t just ‘Stay Home, Save Money’. The best economy I’ve seen in the last 10 months was 32.0mpg the worst was this month at 28.2mpg. The price of diesel has been climbing since the first lockdown last year and it seems my right foot has got heavier too, now I’m feeling ‘liberated’.
That’s not the only thing it gobbles up, though. The basic shape is now seven years old (with a 2019 facelift) but it still looks well proportioned and graphic, especially with our car’s Indus Silver paint (£705) and the optional black contrast roof (£610). Likewise, I still noticed and appreciated the Sport’s styling every time I saw it, even after months of living with it. Sometimes, I still look out the window at our Subaru and I let my eyes dwell on it, lovingly, for a few seconds… the third-generation Forester is a design classic, I’m telling you. Driving our Discovery back-to-back with a new 110 Defender a couple of months ago really made me appreciate the Disco Sport’s compact, car-like form. By modern SUV standards the Disco Sport is pretty compact – at 4597mm, it’s only 4cm longer than our Subaru, which I’ve always considered to be more like a beefy estate car than a bulldozer SUV. Which brings us to the Discovery Sport – I think I may have found our next car! Admittedly there’s the small problem of the £50k-plus secondhand value… but otherwise, it’s perfect.įirst, the size.
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