![]() With everyone strapped in (and there’s a handy seatbelt indicator in the central digital display in the instrument binnacle - more on this later) it’s time to roll out~! The AC was pretty powerful from the word go (handy, because the car was parked under the sun) and the B-pillar mounted rear air vents were a nice touch. It all looks nice enough, and that’s good enough for me. There are probably soft touch plastics in the cabin - I wouldn’t know because I’m not one of those weird people who runs my fingers across every surface of the car to check. For reference, I can’t fit in the back of a Mazda 6 or Accord without my head touching the ceiling, but I can in the Discovery Sport, which is good. I checked out the rear cabin and found a lot more headroom than I expected, in spite of the low-ish roofline. There was still enough headroom, though, which is important. In some cars, it completely gets in the way, so this is better. I’m 187cm with a long torso and short limbs (sort of like a giant dwarf), and the rear-view mirror nearly gets in the way of my view of traffic. My only issue is that they don’t go low enough. They’re very comfortable with good under-thigh and lumbar support and are fully adjustable via buttons (even the passenger side) and there’s a memory function for the drivers side too, though I never used it. I installed a booster seat in the centre-rear pew and my two older kids still had plenty of room on the outboard seats. In a world where the Honda CR-V exists, I’m slightly perturbed whenever I come across a medium SUV that can’t swallow a small horse in the back. It's also worth mentioning that the boot is not deep enough to store my admittedly large stroller longitudinally. Which is a bit of a shame because I think that this could have been avoided with an alternative mechanism for the blind (such as the sideways retractable one in the Honda Civic hatchback). In the end, I had to remove the cargo blind and stow it awkwardly between my luggage and the rear seats to fit all my stuff. The same suitcase lying flat barely fits in the cavity so you can't stack them either. With the latter in place, there isn't enough height for the large suitcase standing on its side. The boot is a bit on the small side for a medium-sized SUV, mostly because of the high floor and low-mounted removable cargo blind. ![]() My first interaction with it was attempting to fit all of our luggage into it - a large trundle suitcase, two much smaller ones and a foldable stroller. It had some fairly large scratches on some plastic panels in the boot area but it otherwise looked in pretty good shape for a new-ish car that’s already done over 30,000km. Our car came in the requisite Rental White paint, with black leather seats. This puts me in a fairly unique position of being able to do a sort of blind taste test, and I’ll judge it assuming it costs somewhere north of 60 grand. I’ve never read other reviews of the Discovery Sport either, and have purposely avoided doing so since. All it says on the the VIN plate is “Discovery Sport LC”, so there. In fact, I’m not even sure which model this is, exactly (couldn’t find anything on the car to let me know if this was TD4, SD4, 110kW or 132kW version). Apart from it being a diesel, I can’t tell you how many cylinders it has, how much power it produces or even how much it costs. I still have no idea what the specs are for this car, though. I had very little interest or knowledge of the Discovery Sport prior this experience, but have come away with a little bit more of both. What was supposed to be a week in Queensland with a Camry ended up being one with a Land Rover Discovery Sport HSE, courtesy of a free upgrade from Europcar after all of the available Camrys (Camri?) in the fleet had been returned with some form of damage. I also really liked that it could lead to more stories and expectations (failures).Welcome to RentalAdvice, where we bring you the finest in non-owner owner car reviews. The tittle i’m assuming is relating to transgender woman? i thought that was clever. This was also a good & smart way of throwing me off. I wasn’t expecting a man to be wearing womens’ skins, it was a shocker! I was expecting the wigs to be worn. One of my favorite stories (spoiler) was transvestism. Some stories were a bit expected but most unexpected tying back to the name. The stories were fun so i just felt with it, but I know many other people wouldn’t care and just delete the game. Even more so, having to watch an ad to unlock every story was making me want to just delete the app entirely. I recommend adding some different type of music because i was playing these game without end and listening to the same repetitive music was annoying. The stories were all different and interesting.
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