At the other end of the spectrum, the Range Rover is $107,900 before freight, whereas the Defender starts at 56,900 bucks. Both the Discovery Sport and Range Rover Evoque are joined at the hip on ...

Ironically, it’s the very success of the Defender that may have led Land Rover to take a good, hard look at the Discovery and, more pointedly, at the smaller Discovery Sport.

Land Rover managed just 3,691 sales of the Discovery in the first quarter of 2021, versus 16,963 for the Defender. And the situation is only likely to get worse as Land Rover rolls out a stretched ...

Those who know the OG 1980s Defender know it wasn’t nearly as posh, tech-forward, or expensive as the 2025 model year. In my opinion, the new Defender is more like a true 1990s Discovery redo.

Now that Jaguar and Range Rover have new logos, that leaves just Discovery and Defender without a new corporate look. As for which model will debut the new double-R badge, JLR hasn’t said.

But that’s not worth noting. What is worth noting right at the get-go is the fact that the last of the V8s on offer in the range – the 5.0-litre supercharged V8 pumping out 368kW/610Nm – is in our ...

The Land Rover Discovery and Defender have a lot in common, notably their underpinnings. Even then, they're pretty different, with different target buyers.