Thread: bit of news about new disco/defender

Interesting comment - if true! (particularly the "Autocar speculates that the fifth-generation Discovery will target the Toyota Land Cruiser when it finally does launch, focusing on towing and practicality." But note that is labelled speculation.) Of course, to put the "11 years old" platform into perspective, the platform used for the Discovery 1 was twenty years old when the D1 was introduced. And there is no doubt that using an existing platform would be far cheaper than designing and tooling a new one. In my view, the only question would be whether to use the D3/4 platform or to use another existing one, either from Tata's stable or one bought in, and I think both of these are unlikely. It would be ideal to develop a new platform, and I suppose there is a bare possibility of this, particularly if they use the same platform for the Discovery and Defender, to spread the development costs.

John