I installed a booster seat in the centre-rear pew and my two older kids still had plenty of room on the outboard seats. In a world where the Honda CR-V exists, I’m slightly perturbed whenever I come across a medium SUV that can’t swallow a small horse in the back. It's also worth mentioning that the boot is not deep enough to store my admittedly large stroller longitudinally. Which is a bit of a shame because I think that this could have been avoided with an alternative mechanism for the blind (such as the sideways retractable one in the Honda Civic hatchback). In the end, I had to remove the cargo blind and stow it awkwardly between my luggage and the rear seats to fit all my stuff. The same suitcase lying flat barely fits in the cavity so you can't stack them either. With the latter in place, there isn't enough height for the large suitcase standing on its side. The boot is a bit on the small side for a medium-sized SUV, mostly because of the high floor and low-mounted removable cargo blind. My first interaction with it was attempting to fit all of our luggage into it - a large trundle suitcase, two much smaller ones and a foldable stroller. It had some fairly large scratches on some plastic panels in the boot area but it otherwise looked in pretty good shape for a new-ish car that’s already done over 30,000km. Our car came in the requisite Rental White paint, with black leather seats. This puts me in a fairly unique position of being able to do a sort of blind taste test, and I’ll judge it assuming it costs somewhere north of 60 grand. I’ve never read other reviews of the Discovery Sport either, and have purposely avoided doing so since. All it says on the the VIN plate is “Discovery Sport LC”, so there.

In fact, I’m not even sure which model this is, exactly (couldn’t find anything on the car to let me know if this was TD4, SD4, 110kW or 132kW version). Apart from it being a diesel, I can’t tell you how many cylinders it has, how much power it produces or even how much it costs.

I still have no idea what the specs are for this car, though. I had very little interest or knowledge of the Discovery Sport prior this experience, but have come away with a little bit more of both. What was supposed to be a week in Queensland with a Camry ended up being one with a Land Rover Discovery Sport HSE, courtesy of a free upgrade from Europcar after all of the available Camrys (Camri?) in the fleet had been returned with some form of damage. Welcome to RentalAdvice, where we bring you the finest in non-owner owner car reviews.

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