2018 Land Rover Discovery Sd4 SE review | Auto Car
This may be a generalisation, but in a brief survey of 10 people, I found that everybody knows somebody that owns, or has owned, a Land Rover Discovery.

So it's with little surprise that Land Rover's punt to depart from the original design and reintroduce a four-cylinder engine could be met with skepticism.

I was keen to see whether a four-cylinder Discovery had the chops for off-roading, towing and daily duties. So we saddled up in the 2018 Land Rover Discovery Sd4 SE to do some city driving, a bit of off-roading, and finally some towing with a giant caravan.

The new Discovery range kicks off from $66,450 (plus on-road costs) and goes all the way through to $116,800 (plus on-road costs).

The vehicle we are testing here is priced from $85,950 (plus on-road costs), which is within cooee of the Toyota LandCruiser Prado Kakadu – one of the prime vehicles Land Rover is hoping to steal sales from.

'Priced from' is something you'll hear often from the Jaguar/Land Rover stables. This car is a prime example – while the list price is a little over $85,000, the as-tested price is an eye-watering $122,530 (plus on-road costs).

There's a big portion of the optional equipment list that you could probably live without, such as the $4000 paint job, or the $4200 sunroof, but some of this gear really should be standard, such as the $1850 keyless entry or the $1140 power tailgate.