Land Rover will end production of the Land Rover Discovery Sport in December 2026, closing the model’s run after more than 11 years on sale. The SUV remains configurable in the UK, but factory orders have already been removed in France, Germany and Spain.
A JLR spokesperson said: "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." The timing lines up with the EU’s updated General Safety Regulation 2 ruleset this month, which has already pushed the model off some European order books.
JLR order books
The change is most immediate for buyers in France, Germany and Spain, where the Discovery Sport can no longer be ordered from the factory. In the UK, it is still configurable for now, so the shift is not being applied everywhere at once.
The same model was once a far bigger part of JLR’s business. The Discovery Sport was JLR’s top seller in 2016, when the company sold more than 122,000 examples globally. By 2025, JLR had sold less than a tenth of that figure, and the Discovery Sport had become the company’s slowest selling model.
Halewood and the Evoque
The Discovery Sport is built alongside the Range Rover Evoque at JLR’s Halewood plant in Merseyside, so its withdrawal affects the line-up planned around that site. Martin Limpert said the brand had no immediate plans to wind down the Evoque and would keep producing it while focusing investment and resources on renewing and electrifying the more profitable flagship model.
Limpert also said the brand refreshed the Range Rover Evoque two-and-a-half years ago and has launched market editions for the Evoque and Velar to keep them present in the marketplace. He added: "We’ve had a big focus on launching Range Rover [Electric] and Range Rover Sport Electric, which was a big pivotal moment that we had to get over the line" and "Range Rover GT [pictured above] is the first car built on our new EMA architecture, so obviously there was lots of focus to bring that to life."
UK buyers and the next step
The Discovery Sport’s retirement also narrows the entry-level SUV side of JLR’s range as the company manages a gradual exit from an older product. After the Discovery Sport goes, the Volvo XC90 will be the UK’s oldest car, and the full-sized Land Rover Discovery is also coming up for retirement.
For buyers, the practical split is already clear: factory ordering has closed in parts of Europe, while the UK market still shows the model as available to configure. JLR has not yet said exactly when the Discovery Sport will exit the UK home market, leaving the current ordering window as the final working detail for anyone still trying to buy one.
