The outline’s becoming SUV-generic, but works well thanks to a steeply raked roofline, spear-like fender vents trailed by a character line down the length of the body, and wheel wells filled with at least 18-inchers for a trendy oversize look. There’s very little of Land Rover’s past in the Discovery Sport’s silhouette. Heated seats cost more where they’re available, too, all a consequence of keeping the base price of the Discovery Sport below $40,000 a well-equipped HSE for about $50,000 strikes us as the common-sense version. Automatic emergency braking costs more, too, and it’s only available in the HSE trim level and above. The 2019 Discovery Sport has standard touchscreen infotainment, but you’ll have to spend more for a wide screen and then spend another $300 for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. It’s better used as cargo space, in which the Discovery Sport excels. It’s thin on everything: head room, leg room, and padding. We’d take a seat in the 2019 Discovery Sport’s front two rows on any occasion we’d have to be sentenced to it to get in the optional “+2” third-row seat. It’s in traction management that the Disco Sport rises up: its standard all-wheel drive lacks a low-range transfer case, but comes with terrain and traction management that sorts out wheel slip in mud, snow, sand, and gravel. The Discovery Sport’s front-strut and rear multi-link suspension endow it with carlike responses, from a firm-ish ride to good highway tracking. Power surges from a turbo-4 with either 237 hp or 286 hp the latter’s an expensive upgrade for not much of a change in outright acceleration, but both couple to a smart 9-speed automatic that rarely gets lost in its own thoughts. The cabin’s not quite the luxury showcase you’ll see inside a Range Rover, but the low-key bits of metallic trim amid black plastic and leather complement its wide-screen infotainment systems and its pricey optional leather well. The silhouette’s modern, almost generic crossover SUV the headlights, honeycomb grille, and fender vents are on-trend Land Rover hallmarks. Sold in SE, HSE, Landmark, Dynamic, and Luxury trims, the 2019 Discovery Sport telegraphs a pretty conventional shape, but dresses it with some Land Rover-specific details. We think it’s a 6.4 out of 10, though we’d probably boost that rating if we had crash-test data at our disposal. It does it all with a price below $40,000 and with a “+2” third-row seat that pumps-fakes for the real seven-seaters in the Land Rover lineup. It’s outfitted with traction systems and turbocharged engines that allow it to straddle the divide between cars and utility vehicles. The 2019 Land Rover Range Rover Sport packs a lot into its mid-size crossover SUV frame-and not just in the name badge.
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