Thread: So is this what the disco was based on originally

IIRC , it was only 2WD and the rear roof and side sections were plastic.

Originally Posted by DiscoTDI

If the Disco was based on that then the designer was blind because that is an awful looking car no matter what way you look at it.

Maybe he passed one on the motorway while broken down and in that brief flash the idea came to him but that is even a stretch.

I think that there the Discovery bears quite a resemblance to this eyesore.

I was looking at my Disco in the car park across from work this arvo and I thought, "It isn't a well balanced design. It looks wrong from some angles."

I think the D1 is too tall in relation to it's width. Certainly, I think the RR classic and the P38A are far nicer designs. There's nowt much better than a really good late model classic - they look just right.

I'll give it one thing, though - the turning circle seems better than the P38A - I can get into parking spaces more easily. (Even the P38A isn't as bad as a County or Defender 110 ).

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

I'll give it one thing, though - the turning circle seems better than the P38A - I can get into parking spaces more easily. (Even the P38A isn't as bad as a County or Defender 110 ).

Ron

Ron, I thought my 79 LWB F100 had turning circle problems, till I got the S3. Now I have to do a 3 point turn to get into my shed. At least the Landy starts every time I want to go somewhere. Bloody high performance &%# Fords.

Shorty.

My father had a Simca Aronde when I was about 5. We lived in Wollongong then. He lost it somewhere near Bulli Pass - slid under a semi that was jack-knifed across the road. The semi had "TNT" written in big red letters on the side. In those days, Thomas Nationwide Transport was only a fairly new company and not many (including the old man had ever heard of them). The old man worked in the mining industry and had only ever heard of one meaning for "TNT" - he tells me he **** himself just before the Simca went under the trailer.

I don't know it looks like a practical body shape, for what I don't know.
it looks a bit more aerodynamic than a defender

( i say this as i hide under the table avoiding the defender rock throwers)
i remember seeing something about simcas years ago, maybe it was a sticker on a car,or the adds for them
went something like this, 'Some Car this Simca'
well that describes this thing.
its different.

john

I wonder if anyone was ever conceived in one of those things?

That would be the ultimate test of whether it is REALLY that ugly.

It's design doesn't really worry me - kinda cute in an odd way....

There have been far worse designs than this effort; remember the Triumph Mayflower, the 120Y, that 70s Caddy sedan with its bum cut off, any of the newer (but mostly unseen in Aussie) Ssangyongs...

Apparently there are people out there who don't like the Discovery3, heretics.....


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