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

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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.