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The Land Rover Discovery has received its first round of updates since the current fifth-generation model went on sale in 2017.

Everything we love about the rugged-yet-family-friendly SUV remains and is now complemented with revised looks, state-of-the-art cabin technology, and new, more efficient powertrains. The updates are being introduced for the 2021 model year.

Tweaks to the exterior are mild, with the most obvious change being the new patterns in the lights at both ends, as well as the new grille and cleaner rear fascia. A new R-Dynamic model is also available and comes with unique touches inside and out.

2021 Land Rover Discovery

 

The changes are more significant inside where comfier second-row seats and a much more modern dash can be found. The dash features a large 11.4-inch touchscreen serving as the infotainment hub, along with a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and available color head-up display.

According to the Land Rover, the 2021 Discovery's infotainment system is simpler to use, with many frequently used functions now accessible in just two taps or less. The system also integrates Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration, as well as WiFi for up to eight devices, and support for over-the-air updates.

In the powertrain department, there's a new selection to choose from. The old gas and diesel V-6 engines are gone, replaced by a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 as the base option and a 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6 with mild-hybrid for buyers seeking greater performance. The 2.0-liter engine is good for 296 horsepower while the 3.0-liter offers up 355 hp. The mild-hybrid component of the latter is an integrated starter motor and generator that can aid the engine during high loads and recover energy under braking and coasting. In both cases all-wheel drive is standard.

2021 Land Rover Discovery

 

For buyers looking to get rough with their SUV, the 2021 Discovery offers a maximum towing capacity of 8,200 pounds and maximum storage of 74.3 cubic feet (with second- and third-row seats folded flat). The drive modes selector also has a new Wade mode that optimizes the vehicle for water fording, including applying the brakes automatically when the driver switches off Wade mode to restore full performance from the brakes from the first application.

Pricing for the 2021 Discovery starts at $55,250, including destination, and the online configurator is already up and running on Land Rover's website.

 

 source:https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1130235_2021-land-rover-discovery-price-specs-review-photos-info

 

by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
http://www.boscheuropean.com

 

 

 

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Watching a professional race car  driver slide off the track as he struggles to keep the Porsche 911 Turbo S he’s driving in front of your journalist-piloted 918 Spyder is a remarkably satisfying feeling. That is, until you realize that the car is doing much of the work for you.

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During my first drive of the 918 Spyder at the fantastic Circuit of the Americas, I saw just that happen. As the 911 and its pro driver threw up a rooster tail of dirt (he safely made it back on track just a few hundred feet later), I felt a surge of confidence in my driving ability. Then I felt a corresponding deflation—there’s a whole lot going on behind the scenes of the 918 even when it’s in full race mode.

As I noted in my first drive review, “If, at some point, you find yourself executing flawless apexes at speeds that you’d normally encounter at the end of a middling-length straightaway, and wonder to yourself, “Just how in the hell did I do that?”, you’ll have taken the Wizard of Oz’s advice to heart. You’ve ignored the man—or, more precisely, the 80 or so computers—behind the 918’s technological curtain. The giant green-headed monster of flaming speed is very real to you. The illusion is preserved.”

I bought the Wizard’s line, but then I peeked behind the curtain.

On the other hand, that huge level of technological sophistication that enables pace inconceivable to most ordinary humans, especially from behind the wheel of a street-legal car, is part of what makes the Porsche 918 Spyder such a masterpiece of the automotive art.

“Make no mistake: the speed is real. You’re really doing it. But there’s a whole lot going on behind the scenes to make that experience possible,” I noted. “Computers talk to computers, telling each other how much power to apply to the front axle (which has its own standalone electric motor, capable of delivering up to 129 horsepower). Other computers take that information and filter it through their own algorithm, deciding how much power  to send from the 156-horsepower rear electric motor to the rear axle, while the 608-horsepower V-8 engine does the same, all of them responding to the requests of your right foot.”

But the 918 Spyder isn’t just a track-honed scalpel. It’s also a street car, and a very good one at that. It even offers an all-electric mode. “E-Power (electric) mode does just as you'd expect, siphoning off the car's 6.8-kilowatt-hour supply of electrons to supply a maximum of 230 kW of power to the two electric motors  for a maximum range of up to 19 miles (not coincidentally, about the distance from Weissach to Zuffenhausen), or about 12 miles in more normal driving conditions,” I wrote. “A Jetson's-like whine accompanies the all-electric mode, louder at lower speeds, then slowly subsumed by the susurrus of the wind over the cabin. You might think the 918 Spyder would feel a bit sluggish in electric mode, but you'd be wrong; and if you need to accelerate more quickly than electric mode will allow, give it the boot, and the car will automatically kick on the throaty V-8 and send you into Hybrid mode.”

Pair these two extremes with a range of hybrid-drive modes, some advanced infotainment, an audiophile-grade Burmester sound system, and the 918’s incomparably gorgeous looks, and you can understand the superlatives I laid on the car in the conclusion of my first drive report: “E-Power (electric) mode does just as you'd expect, siphoning off the car's 6.8-kilowatt-hour supply of electrons to supply a maximum of 230 kW of power to the two electric motors for a maximum range of up to 19 miles (not coincidentally, about the distance from Weissach to Zuffenhausen), or about 12 miles in more normal driving conditions. A Jetson's-like whine accompanies the all-electric mode, louder at lower speeds, then slowly subsumed by the susurrus of the wind over the cabin. You might think the 918 Spyder would feel a bit sluggish in electric mode, but you'd be wrong; and if you need to accelerate more quickly than electric mode will allow, give it the boot, and the car will automatically kick on the throaty V-8 and send you into Hybrid mode.”

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