Land Rover Discovery TD6

FIRST UK DRIVE Punchy six-cylinder diesel SUV arrives on British roads.

- Lawrence Allan

WE’VE only been able to test the new Land Rover Discovery on British soil with its downsized four-cylinder SD4 diesel engine so far – and we’ve been impressed. Now we’ve tried the TD6 version to see if it makes an even stronger case for itself.

If you only went by the Disco’s on-paper specifications, you’d be surprised by how small the performance deficit is between the SD4 and TD6. With 254bhp, the six-cylinder unit is only 18bhp more powerful than the four-pot, and there’s only two-tenths of a second between the pair from 0-62mph.