You can never have too much of a good thing, and I think we would all agree that faster and sportier cars fall into that category. Hot off the unveil of the all-new Land Rover Discovery Sport, we have news that JLR is looking to maybe make an even more aggressive model. In a piece posted up by the fine folks at CarAdvice, Land Rover's director of programs Murray Dietsch is being quoted as saying the Disco Sport is not an "outwardly sporty vehicle," and that he would "like to [do] one."
That is a promising statement indeed, but things get even wackier. Rather than dumping a massive V-8 under the hood like it did for the Range Rover Sport SVR, Land Rover may opt for a high-power diesel engine like Audi uses in the SQ5. Dietsch chimed in again with "We've got sporty derivatives of other vehicles in Europe that have got higher output engines that are diesel, so it would be horses for courses I think."
To round out this pile of awesome news, it seems the Range Rover and Disco Sport models won't be the only machines getting the "go-faster" treatment. There are plans in the works to make a high-end version of every model in the family portfolio. Think about how Mercedes uses its AMG division.
I think this sounds like a great plan.
Click past the jump to read more about the Land Rover Discovery Sport.
Land Rover Considers More Powerful Discovery Sport originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 08:00 EST.
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