G'day Dennis,
I bought a TDV6 SE Disco back in Mar this year. So far it has been excellent. This is my first Landrover as well, and I too had the same hesitant feelings but did lots of homework, eg logging onto this site and speaking with as many people as I could who have owned Disco's. In the end I couldn't find a better 4WD for the money. The standard features are top of its class and to get the same features in Japanese 4WD you have to buy the top of the line model which costs slightly more than the disco. As far as reliability goes, there are plenty of threads on here attesting to its reliability, it has now been in the Australian market for over 2 years and there haven't been any major problems affecting them. Of course there have been minor problems but by the sounds of them they have been rectified promptly and to the customers satisfaction.
Fuel figures - I get around 8.5-9.5 L/100km on the highway. About 11.5-12.5 L/100km around town, mind you I live in Sale VIC so the town driving isn't that strenuous. I have a boat which weighs about 1700kg fully loaded and when towing get about 16 L/100kms. I haven't done a lot of towing yet so they are fairly new figures.
So far the family and I have put just under 9000km on it and plan to do about 25000 - 30000km a year.
If you want to speak about it in any more detail give us an email on jillett@optusnet.com.au and I will give you my number and we can have a chat.
Overall I love the Disco, I have driven in a lot of new 4WDs and the ride cannot be compared, they are awesome.
Cheers
Steve
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