Discovery Sport production ends this year; Evoque and Velar live on

Land Rover volition extremity accumulation of the Discovery Sport astatine the extremity of 2026, aft much than 11 years. 

The SUV remains configurable successful the UK but is nary longer available to bid from the mill successful assorted European markets, including France, Germany and Spain. 

A JLR spokesperson told Autocar: “Discovery Sport accumulation volition extremity successful December 2026, successful enactment with mean merchandise lifecycles. As portion of this modulation determination volition beryllium a managed sunset of manufacturing up of this date for definite markets.”

This brings an extremity to 1 of the longest on-sale runs successful the UK: the Discovery Sport was launched present successful February 2015, making it older than the Mazda MX-5 and Alfa Romeo Giulia. After it goes, the Volvo XC90 volition beryllium the UK’s oldest car. 

The removal of the Discovery Sport from bid books coincides with the imposition this period of the EU’s updated General Safety Regulation 2 (GSR2) ruleset, which mandates respective information functions not fitted to the SUV.

JLR has updated its different models to comply with GSR2, but the Discovery Sport’s property – and comparatively bladed nett margins – astir apt made specified an concern unviable.

Porsche made the aforesaid determination with the Macan, which was launched astatine astir the aforesaid clip arsenic the Discovery Sport, and is bowing out of accumulation this month.

It isn't yet wide erstwhile the Discovery Sport volition exit its location marketplace (where GSR2 is not a ineligible obligation), but it's apt that JLR volition halt taking caller orders successful beforehand of its retirement. 

The entry-level SUV has historically been a important measurement generator for the company, ranking arsenic its apical seller successful 2016 (its archetypal afloat twelvemonth connected sale), with much than 122,000 examples sold globally. 

A important overhaul successful 2019 – including a caller level and interior – helped to support it caller against rivals, but successful much caller years its property has caught up with it, and JLR sold little than a tenth of that 2016 fig successful 2025.

That made it the company’s slowest selling-model, down the full-sized Land Rover Discovery, which is besides coming up for status arsenic the 10th day of its unveiling approaches.

The Discovery Sport’s cancellation raises questions implicit the aboriginal of the intimately related Range Rover Evoque, which is built alongside it astatine JLR’s Halewood works connected Merseyside. 

Range Rover MD Martin Limpert suggested to Autocar past week that the marque had nary contiguous plans to upwind down the Evoque and would proceed to nutrient the entry-level exemplary portion it focused concern and resources connected renewing and electrifying the much profitable flagship model.

“We’ve had a large absorption connected launching Range Rover [Electric] and Range Rover Sport Electric, which was a large pivotal infinitesimal that we had to get implicit the line,” helium said. “Range Rover GT [pictured above] is the archetypal car built connected our caller EMA architecture, truthful evidently determination was tons of absorption to bring that to life. 

“But we besides refreshed the Range Rover Evoque two-and-a-half years ago, and we person launched the marketplace editions for the Evoque and Velar [such arsenic the Belgravia and Hoxton Editions] to support them contiguous successful the marketplace. We person loyal audiences for these cars, and we can’t bash everything astatine once.”

While the Discovery Sport’s status is understood to marque country for the sleek new Range Rover GT, the Evoque could stay successful accumulation until that car’s much rugged sibling, the Land Rover Defender Sport, arrives adjacent year.

While the GT is simply a caller exemplary with nary nonstop predecessor, it's imaginable that the Defender Sport could service arsenic a replacement for some the Evoque and Discovery Sport, fixed its akin footprint and expected positioning.