Land Rover Discovery Sport SVR looks a non-starter

It looks like any performance versions of the new Land Rover Discovery Sport won’t be full-fat SVR models as they’d be too expensive to be viable.

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It’s early in the life of the new Land Rover Discovery Sport, but with Jaguar Land Rover’s eyes on every niche, its not too much of a stretch to expect a performance version (or two) of the new Disco Sport at some point in the not too distant future.

When the Discovery Sport does arrive in customers’ hands – certainly in the UK – the only option will be the venerable 2.2 litre diesel engine, although that will change before too long to the new Ingenium range of engines.

The new Ingenium range consists of a variety of power outputs of 2.0 litre diesel and petrol lumps, but it also seems likely the Disco Sport may get something more powerful at some point to create a performance version.,

But what won’t happen – at least according to Murray Dietsch, the man in charge of the Evoque and Discovery Sport, in conversation with automotive.co.au – is an all-out SVR version of the Sport.

It seems SVR are keen to develop models that can command – and sell – at a premium price tag, and the idea of an Evoque or Sport with an SVR badge and a very big price tag doesn’t have real prospects.

That doesn’t mean we won’t be getting Sportier Sports and Sportier Evoques – there’s actually the 281bhp Evoque Autobiography Dynamic on its way at the moment – but it doesn’t look like an SVR Sport or Evoque will see the light of day.