New Land Rover Discovery will be built at JLR’s new plant in Slovakia

The new 2017 Land Rover Discovery will be built at Jaguar Land Rover’s new plant in Slovakia from 2018, a new plant with a 300,000 capacity.

It’s only a couple of months since Jaguar Land Rover revealed the latest Discovery, not a car badged Discovery 5 as you might expect, but just Land Rover Discovery. And it looks very good.

Looking just like a production version of the Land Rover Vision Concept, the new Discovery is longer than the current model, which means room for proper seats in the back row of the seven-seater, offering competition for recent desirable seven-seaters like the Volvo XC90, but with Land Rover’s off-road prowess delivering a real USP.

The new Discovery is due to go on sale in spring 2017 – and customer cars will arrive some time later – but although the new Discovery will be built in the UK, production is also heading off elsewhere.

In fact, from 2018, a chunk of Discoverys for Europe and the rest of the world will roll out of Jaguar Land Rover’s new plant in Slovakia, a plant that is swallowing £1 billion of JLR’s cash, will employ 2,800 and, eventually, churn out 300,000 cars a year.

It seems JLR’s production facilities in Slovakia, China, India and Brazil will be taking a chunk of the lifting as JLR seeks to increase production to the million a year by the end of the decade.  JLR is also using Magna Steyr to build the new Jaguar i-PACE BEV.