► Month two with the Land Rover Disco
► Seven-seat capability very useful
► Accessing the rear seats, however, is tricky
I’ve got a thing for Plus Twos. Not the misshapen golfing trousers, the additional row of seats in the Disco Sport. We’re only a family of four, but we use its seven-seat capability every few weeks, whenever we’ve got extended family to herd.
Getting into the rear isn’t easy: even with the second row slid fully forward, the V-shaped aperture is only for the snake-hipped. But my 5ft wife and eldest daughter, in bulky child seat, can happily handle 20min journeys with the incentive of pub or softplay at the end. In an SUV this compact, it’s genius packaging.
Logbook: Land Rover Discovery Sport HSE Luxury auto
Price: £43,400
As tested: £46,615
Miles this month: 1510
Total miles: 6272
Our mpg: 32.5
Official mpg: 53.3
Fuel this month: £225.40
Extra costs: £0
Read more from the May 2016 issue of CAR magazine