Video: 2017 Land Rover Discovery Review: First Impressions

Now I know you're thinking, "Wait a minute, don't they already have the Discovery? Well, technically that's the Discovery Sport, which despite the shared name, is a much smaller vehicle built on a completely different platform. This is the Discovery of full-size SUV with up to three rows of seats. It's Land Rover's largest vehicle short of the flagship Range Rover itself. Two interesting throwbacks to earlier Discovery models. The first one is this roof that raises slightly here, past the C pillar actually gives a little bit more space to third row passengers, Land Rover says, and there's a glass panel here over the third row that can be manually moved a little bit to let in air back there. Second thing is this asymmetry in the rear end. Just about every car out there has a symmetrical rear end, not so with the Discovery. Checkout where this license plate is; where the actual cutout. Everything's kinda shoved over here. Very interesting to look at. Now the Discovery does have some new tricks, among them this partition right here that goes behind the third row. You can power lower it with a button. It also handles more than 500 pounds of weight if you actually want to sit off the end and when you have it up, it keeps your cargo back here. So if you're parked on a hill and have some cantaloupes in back, they won't roll out. Melon fans, your SUV is coming. Now the Discovery appears to be easily configurable on the inside with things like power folding second and third row seats that you can do all the way from controls up in the cockpit. This will all cost you between $50,000 or so where it starts all the way up to the mid 70s for a fully loaded Discovery, Land Rover says, when it hits dealerships in spring of 2017.