2017 Land Rover Discovery Concept Pictures

If you wish a classic, squared-off Land Rover, your canicule are numbered. As apparent by these spy photos, the British off-road cast is testing a new Discovery (America's LR4) that would chase in the footsteps of its brothers both big and small, adopting Range Rover Evoque-inspired sheetmetal and lines. Where the accepted Discovery Sport looks like a scaled up Evoque, anticipation by the spy photos, the Disco will be added like the boxier Range Rover Sport, just in a larger, added space-efficient anatomy factor.

2017 Land Rover Discovery Concept Pictures

Pay accurate absorption to amplitude abaft the D-pillar, which, anticipation by its ample greenhouse, alpine rear window, and rear overhang, looks optimized for a accepted third-row of seats. While the Disco Sport, LR4, and Range Rover Sport can all be had with a third row, the amplitude they action is almost acceptable for adults. Perhaps this new Discovery will be the car to change that. Inside, the autogenous should get a comfortable check with higher-quality materials, acceptance the Disco to bigger attempt as a exceptional offering.

2017 Land Rover Discovery Interior Photos

More than the new sheetmetal, though, the next Discovery will arresting the mid-range Land Rover's alteration to an aluminum architecture, like the Range Rover Sport and Range Rover. Expect cogent weight savings, which, as we explained in our a lot of contempo analysis of the LR4, is something that 5,600-plus-pound SUV hardly needs.

Our spies, meanwhile, advance that the new Discovery will get gas, diesel, and amalgam power. We're action the ICE-only powertrains will appear from accepted Jaguar Land Rover vehicles. The 340-horsepower, 3.0-liter, supercharged V6 currently confined in the LR4 is a shoe-in, while we wouldn't put it accomplished LR to action the added almighty 380-hp adaptation of that mill. On the agent front, the 3.0-liter TDV6 getting awash in America in the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport will acceptable be offered. Like the destroyed V6, it's already in account on the Euro-market assembly model.

2017 Land Rover Discovery Photos

As for its name, if the Discovery Sport (née LR2) is any indication, this new archetypal will canal its banal alphanumeric in favor of a acknowledgment to the Discovery, which was alone two ancestors ago. Such a move would body a archetypal bureaucracy for consumers that's easier to understand; Discovery Sport is a smaller, cheaper Discovery, agnate to how the Range Rover Sport is positioned compared to the range-topping Range Rover. That's just belief on our part, though, and it would beggarly LR is baking on buyers apathy how capricious the backward Discovery models were.