Land Rover Discovery review: ‘Do you always reverse into other people?’ | Martin Love

The latest luxury seven-seat SUV from Land Rover is as glossy as it is immense. Just be very careful when you try to squeeze into a parking space

Land Rover Discovery
Price 43,995
0-62mph 8 seconds
Top speed 121mph
MPG 43.5
CO2 171g/km

For all the swaggering braggadocio of Clarkson and co, TV's most clubable threesome, in the real world of motoring journalism we're a more respectful bunch with a proper horror of damaging the cars we love. I've been reviewing cars for more than a decade now and still haven't managed to rack up a crash - until last week. But what a miserably puny bash it was. I was queuing for the multistorey when the person in front asked me to reverse a bit so she could make the corner. I happily snapped the car into reverse and before I knew had put my rear bumper into the front light of the car behind.