This is the Land Rover discovery SVX, the first ‘extreme off-road’ car from the company’s special car Operations division and, potentially, the first discovery to nudge the £100,000 price point. 
SVX is developed to sit alongside the high-performance SVR and luxury-oriented SVAutobiography editions. Land Rover insiders say the Discovery’s semi-rugged credibility makes it an optimal candidate for the first SVX makeover – not least because earlier generations of the automobile were used in the extreme Camel Trophy off-roading competitions in the nineties.
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The discovery SVX gets a retuned version of Jaguar Land Rover’s 5.0-litre supercharged V8 engine, producing 518bhp and 625Nm of torque, and mated to a reprogrammed version of the JLR’s ZF-sourced eight-speed automatic transmission.
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The most significant gains in off-roading ability are likely to come from the chassis modifications, however. The automobile gets an active anti-roll bar set-up, called Hydraulic active Roll control (H-ARC); this is developed to improve wheel articulation to maximise traction on poor surfaces, although Land Rover also claims that it will decrease body roll in normal conditions too. 
The discovery SVX also features improved approach, departure and breakover angles, thanks to raised ride height, long-travel dampers and new suspension knuckles. The automobile also gets 815mm-diameter, 275/55 R20 Goodyear Wrangler tyres; these feature a much more open tread pattern to help cut through mud and find grip. An active centre and electronic rear locking differentials complete the chassis tweaks.