SUV Comparison: Land Rover Discovery Sport Vs Hyundai Santa Fe

Oh dear, I really think Land Rover needs to pull its head out of its bottom on the new discovery, sport. Here'S a question from Michaela who says I'm looking at the new Land Rover Discovery sport. Is it worth the money and is it safe? Unlike the Range Rover Evoque, should I lean towards a he under sent a fee for value thanks for asking Michaela, let's find out easy question first, is it safe? Yes, unlike the Range Rover Evoque, which dropped the ball so badly in its offset frontal crash test unequivocally the new Discovery. Sport is much better. In December 2014, it was independently tested and awarded five stars for safety by Europe. End cap, but here's where even that gets interesting the new Discovery sport failed to do as well as the Santa Fe in both standardized tests, the offset frontal crash test and in the poll impact test as well. In fact, the Hyundai Santa Fe crashed with five percent. Better protection in the offset frontal test in the poll test, which is very severe, the Santa Fe, scored the maximum points. While the Discovery sport did not. In the poll test, independent experts from Euro endcap dropped the safety ranking on the drivers chest protection in the land. Rover from good to adequate Santa Fe was rated as good everywhere by the same agency in that test. It'S the highest possible safety rating. There'S no excuse for this discovery. Sport is a brand new vehicle. It'S a product to some degree of land, rover's former join at the hip with Volvo, the industry's self-proclaimed safety superstar. That was back when both brands were part of Ford's evil empire. They called it. The premier automotive group, presumably because evil empire was already taken, the evil empire also included Jaguar and Aston Martin, and it started from crisis to crisis until the big daddy of all crises. The global financial crisis that was when a fire sale of sorts was necessary for Ford to remain on life support. That'S the back story, here's the need to know if there are relativity's in five-star safety ratings and trust me on this. There absolutely are, then, I know which of these two vehicles I would preferentially crash in, and it would not be that Land Rover, so that's safety. Here'S where Land Rovers head really does protrude into the south end of its gastrointestinal tract. Is it worth their money and should I lean towards a hand, a Santa Fe for value as asked by Michaela? These are flip sides of the same propositional hit-single. So let's take the poverty pact, disco, sport and pitch it against the works burger of Santa Fe, the Highlander bear in mind. None of this is my opinion. It'S an objective answer to Mikayla's question using Australian specifications and recommended retail pricing. These two models - paavo pack, disco, sport and pimps - Cadillac of Santa Fe - are in the gun because they are line ball on price. Well, they are until you start thinking about specifications. They both have 2.2 litre Diesel's, slightly more peak output for the Santa Fe, slightly less mass for the Land Rover very similar performance in a straight line guaranteed many of the same inclusions too. Proximity key full-sized, alloy spare tire stuff like that, and if you want to put them both inside a box, you will need exactly the same sized box for each one. The dimensions are remarkably similar, but how similar are these two vehicles in detail? These are pretty expensive toys when you think about it. So value is a very important consideration and when you drill down into it, one is Malibu Barbie in a box set with Ken and the campervan, and the other is a kind of cheap plastic Kim Kardashian. Is there any other kind? I'D want an auto transmission, I'm thinking soccer mum, baby seats, traffic, hands-free conversations, tennis, lessons, the spa lunch with the girls and whipping up the lights. Who'S got time to change gear. 6-Speed, Auto, is how they roll standard from house of highlander, but the auto is going to cost you two and a half grand more in the land rover. It'S a nine speed transmission, so you can brag about that. Mine'S bigger than yours in the Land Rover is that a practical advantage, usually not the Santa Fe, is a standard 7-seater. While the standard disco sport is just five. So that means, if you are snow, white and your remit includes the routine transportation of Doc, grumpy, happy bashful, sneezy and dopey and sleepy tucked in the back with a blanket over his head, you'd, better budget, another two grand for the Land Rover for the optional third Seating road, the Santa Fe, also rolls standard with 19-inch alloys. Those would be $ 1,500 extra on the Land Rover. Now, if, like me, you wake up every morning, humming who's, the solar-powered sex machine, that's a hit with all the chicks to the tune of shaft. Hmm! There'S an admission: don't worry, we can edit it out. Then you'd want the big panoramic glass roof, that's standard in the Hyundai and $ 1,800 extra on the disc. Oh he's a complicated man, but no one understands him, like his woman, John shaft. That was way back shortly after the extinction of the dinosaurs, but well before men all became metrosexual. It'S going to cost you seven hundred dollars more for premium paint in the disco unless you want to get in touch with your fraternal Irish Protestant, loyal orange institution roots and opted instead for the Phoenix Orange disco sport. That'S going to be an incredible two thousand! Six hundred dollars premium, I think, that's because actual Catholics are ground up and used in the paint. How else could you justify the cost? That'S a five percent premium, just for the Soylent Green of orange paint. It'S absurd! You also need to buy the automated parking pack. The climate pack for the front seats, the 11-speaker premium, sound system and the xenon light pack just to get to the point of approximate objective equivalence, and when you do assuming you decline, the pulverised devout Catholic soil, an orange paint, your Discovery, sport, that's actually line ball. On spec, with the Santa Fe Highlander is going to knock you back 67 grand Santa Fe. Let'S add the premium. Paint is still under fifty four thousand bucks with all that stuff standard. So, with the Land Rover, it's about twenty five percent more for the same thing, sort of only if you just landed here from Sirius B, all you'd notice is one of the oval badges has a bit of green on it. I don't know about you, but I am really struggling to justify the big fat extra spend. I really am. I mean Land Rover is not BMW, it's not even Audi Land. Rover makes a big hue and cry about its off-road credentials above and beyond, like Buzz Lightyear, but frankly, that's either irrelevant or intangible. As far as all Discovery, sport owners statistically will be concerned back on earth. Both vehicles have more than enough off-road capability to satisfy the needs of both buyers, parking in a disabled spot to run in and get that vital double shot. Piccolo soy latte is as adventurous as they are generally going to get. I really don't think the North Face of the Eiger or ability to conquer same is up for grabs in either vehicle. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not wander aimlessly into a dealership, with the expectation of spending early 50s and Limp out with the ink drying on a contract and my dignity in tatters to the tune of 70 grand. It'S. Certainly at the very least. The first step on a path to disenchantment, and it doesn't stop there, because there are many more thousands of dollars you could upsell into the Land Rover business model. If you want to spend 85 grand on a new Land, Rover Discovery, sport and step right up. It'S dead, easy, like mercedes-benz, Audi and BMW Land Rover is actually pretty good at extreme premium. Take Range Rover if you've got 200k to spend a Range Rover is a pretty good option, come on in be systematically violated and spend quarter of a million dollars. We'Ll get you a manicure and a lobster tail vallah volt. While you wait and you won't feel a thing pretty good about yourself. That'S how you'll be feeling when you drive off financially exsanguinated in a vogue? That'S just how it works, but this uber premium business model does not translate to the fifty thousand dollar SUV space. Here'S a vehicle, the name of which had to be changed from Freelander, because that was cursed in the manner of Linda Blair. We'Re talking 360 degree head rotation with projectile-vomiting. That'S bad! If symptoms persist, see your health care professional, so step right up. Take a punt will violate you using this inappropriate, uber premium, extreme upsell style business model, albeit here in the cheap seats and you'll drive off in the new Freelander. Pardon me discovery sport and look. This oval badge has a bit of green inside it, which is emblematic of poor reliability and sky-high ownership costs if history repeats, but it is quote the most versatile compact SUV. If Land Rover's marketing fluff is to detain us all momentarily, all he under can offer. You, in contrast, is an honest upfront pricing strategy with all the big-ticket stuff thrown in standard plus a five year warranty with unlimited kilometers, kept price servicing for life and ten years of complimentary roadside assistance. So if you're a land rover nutcase, the choice is pathologically clear. If, instead, you are a rational and objective buyer, the choice is also crystal they're, just diametrically different choices. It'S a binary proposition, don't misconstrue my objective enthusiasm for Santa Fe as some kind of unilateral evangelism for Hyundai. I wouldn't be stepping up for a hand. They accent anytime soon, and here they genesis a $ 60,000 hyun. Day-After honda crashed and burned so spectacularly over and over with the legend. What were they thinking? You could not feed me a petrol Hyundai i40 or an automatic atmo Veloster, and I'm absolutely certain I'd buy a Kia reowww instead of an i-20 on all days ending in Y Santa Fe is just an incredibly good vehicle and it deserves considerable objective approbation. If you want to save thousands on any new vehicle, even a discovery, sport, I don't discriminate visit the website, Auto expert condo, you don't forget to like this video. You can leave a comment below to. Let me know what you think and subscribe for regular updates. I'M John Cadogan looking kind of forward to attending one fewer car company Christmas party this year and it's only just April plenty more to come. Thanks for watching

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