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Land Rover Discovery (L462)

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The fifth-generation Discovery, internally L462, was unveiled on 28 September 2016 and went on sale in Britain in February 2017. Built on an aluminium architecture shared with the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport, it is the first Discovery with a unibody structure rather than a body-on-frame design, up to 480 kilograms lighter than its predecessor, with a much rounder shape, a standard eight-speed automatic gearbox and coil springs on base trims. It returned the Discovery name to the American market after the LR3 and LR4. Production moved to Slovakia in 2019 and a facelift was launched in November 2020.

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2017 1
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Land Rover 1
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JLR builds Land Rovers in Brazil, China, India, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.

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JLR builds Land Rovers in Brazil, China, India, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.
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1. Wikipedia: Land Rover Discovery
  • Discovery 5, unveiling, year
    The fifth-generation Discovery was unveiled in the grounds of Packington Hall near Meriden, UK on 28 September 2016, the eve of the 2016 Paris Motor Show, and went on sale in the UK in February 2017.
  • Lead paragraph, builder
    produced by the British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover
  • Discovery 5, aluminium
    For the first time, the Discovery is based on Land Rover's aluminium architecture, first introduced on the Range Rover (L405).
  • Discovery 5, unibody
    The Discovery 5 is the first Discovery to be built on a unibody chassis, unlike its predecessors which were built body on frame.
  • Discovery 5, Slovakia
    This is the first Discovery that will be manufactured outside the UK, with production being moved to Slovakia in 2019.
  • Discovery 5, facelift
    In November 2020, a facelift for the model was launched, which debuted as a 2021 model.
  • Body style, suv: Discovery 5, crossover body style
    it incorporates a unitary body structure and a crossover body style and is lighter than its predecessor
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