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Land Rover Discovery Sport D180 AWD R-Dynamic HSE

Laid-back, good-looking SUV but weight is an impediment Terence Steenkamp

Not as nimble as its German foes but more practical and better off-road Ryan Bubear

Comfy, practival and it feels preminum; just a shame it’s rather sluggish Gareth Dean

Price: R951 966 0-100 km/h: 10,33 seconds Top speed: 202 km/h Power: 132 kW Torque: 430 N.m CAR fuel index: 7,08 L/100 km CO2 : 199 g/km

Take a guess at the average weight of a premiummidsize SUV equipped with a four-pot diesel. Less than two tonnes, surely? Well, we recorded 1 858 kg for a heavily optioned BMW X3 xDrive20d, a slightly portlier 1 937 kg for Audi’s Q5 2,0 TDI and an identical figure for the Benz GLC220d tested on page 74. Volvo’s XC60 – our

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