Land Rover will end production of the Discovery Sport at the end of 2026, after more than 11 years.
The SUV remains configurable in the UK but is no longer available to order from the factory in various European markets, including France, Germany and Spain.
A JLR spokesperson told Autocar: “Discovery Sport production will end in December 2026, in line with normal product lifecycles. As part of this transition there will be a managed sunset of manufacturing ahead of this date for certain markets.”
This brings an end to one of the longest on-sale runs in the UK: the Discovery Sport was launched here in February 2015, making it older than the Mazda MX-5 and Alfa Romeo Giulia. After it goes, the Volvo XC90 will be the UK’s oldest car.
The removal of the Discovery Sport from order books coincides with the imposition this month of the EU’s updated General Safety Regulation 2 (GSR2) ruleset, which mandates several safety functions not fitted to the SUV.
JLR has updated its other models to comply with GSR2, but the Discovery Sport’s age – and comparatively thin profit margins – probably made such an investment unviable.
Porsche made the same decision with the Macan, which was launched at around the same time as the Discovery Sport, and is bowing out of production this month.
It isn’t yet clear when the Discovery Sport will exit its home market (where GSR2 is not a legal obligation), but it’s likely that JLR will stop taking new orders in advance of its retirement.
The entry-level SUV has historically been a significant volume generator for the company, ranking as its top seller in 2016 (its first full year on sale), with more than 122,000 examples sold globally.
A significant overhaul in 2019 – including a new platform and interior – helped to keep it fresh against rivals, but in more recent years its age has caught up with it, and JLR sold less than a tenth of that 2016 figure in 2025.
That made it the company’s slowest selling-model, behind the full-sized Land Rover Discovery, which is also coming up for retirement as the 10th anniversary of its unveiling approaches.
The Discovery Sport’s cancellation raises questions over the future of the closely related Range Rover Evoque, which is built alongside it at JLR’s Halewood plant on Merseyside.