Land Rover Discovery Sport D180 2.0 diesel 4x4 automatic

Our verdict

The Land Rover Discovery Sport weighs over two tonnes and, in the 2.0 litre diesel form tested here, has a modest 132 kW of power but a hefty 430 Nm of torque. With high and low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation, selective catalytic reduction and a diesel particulate filter, the car makes a fine job of controlling pollutant emissions, only NO_x being overly high in some of the more challenging tests. It is in the areas of Energy Efficiency and, especially, Greenhouse Gases that the vehicle struggles. Here, its high weight counts against it and values of CO₂ are high, the declared value of 188 g/km being achieved only in the cold-start laboratory test. Emissions of N₂O, a particularly potent greenhouse gas, are also high, contributing to a low index in this part of the assessment and dragging the average down to give an overall 1½ star rating.