Thread: Future Discovery Teaser

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UobTPWGfjEk]Building on the DNA of Discovery: Vision Concept's exterior - YouTube[/ame]

the launch event:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MtMCsnHE8A]Land Rover Discovery Unveiling on the Intrepid in NYC - YouTube[/ame]

I think they engaged the same marketing people as Apple. I was waiting for Jonny Ives to appear.

Originally Posted by rar110

I think they engaged the same marketing people as Apple. I was waiting for Jonny Ives to appear.

You are I think more correct in your observation than you may have first thought. The link below is to the Foglizzo Italian Leather website and a Eurocopter EC135 that Foglizzo did up in pink leather.

Where I first heard that Foglizzo brand name was from one of those LR videos above where LR was boasting about the Foglizzo leather interior of the new Discovery 4.5. The EC135 in the website pictures, (if you can take you eyes off the good looking girls), is on a yacht in Monaco - the weather is better, but the idea is the same - expensive surroundings, darkness, eye candy, fancy lights plus exotic food and drinks.

I am wondering who is trying to fool whom?

Foglizzo Award best Custom Leather Aplication

There are also articles around saying the rear doors will open the 'normal' way,not as the concept vehicle.

Suppose we will have to wait and see,we know what happened to the DC100,it seemed to vanish.

The new D4.5 will probably in reality be some version of an existing Euro Ford. Over here, in the mirror I think I am seeing a Freelander or similar small Land Rover and instead when it passes me, it has Ford written on it. I think the true Land Rover design studio still has a Ford logo on the door.

It is too bad those guys in the video were not spending their time trying to design something truly difficult - a reliable capable on road / off road vehicle.

There is a story that the reason Dodge pickups finally succeeded in the market place is that in Detroit, next door to the Chrysler pickup design building, a new plant addition was being constructed. The design guys were fascinated watching real working guys trying to work out of a pickup cab. They discovered the supervisors were using their pickups as offices, lunchrooms, phone rooms, and on occasion, sleeping quarters.

As a result, Dodge was the first to come out with that wide centre flip down armrest that was flat on top so one could set files etc down on it. The designers also discovered laptop computers were in the cabs, hence the need for extra cigarette lighters, coffee cup holders, (not wine), and now 120 VAC receptacles. The two door mini cab evolved into the 4 door Mega cab and then you really could sleep overnight on the site - undesirable, but not that uncommon.

Why LR cannot find space for future dash switches and a hole thru the firewall for extra wires or ...... The reason I believe is that the boffins who design Land Rovers either take the Tube or ride bicycles to work.

They should be required to drive their designs to work each day. Stalled a few times on the M? on the way home or with the wife and crying kids on board, I am confident reliability would dramatically improve. Rather than suicide doors, doors that merely opened a full ninety degrees might seem to make more sense - but none of that would make for good show business - but a business case, I wonder?

Originally Posted by bbyer

The new D4.5 will probably in reality be some version of an existing Euro Ford. Over here, in the mirror I think I am seeing a Freelander or similar small Land Rover and instead when it passes me, it has Ford written on it. I think the true Land Rover design studio still has a Ford logo on the door. It is too bad those guys in the video were not spending their time trying to design something truly difficult - a reliable capable on road / off road vehicle. There is a story that the reason Dodge pickups finally succeeded in the market place is that in Detroit, next door to the Chrysler pickup design building, a new plant addition was being constructed. The design guys were fascinated watching real working guys trying to work out of a pickup cab. They discovered the supervisors were using their pickups as offices, lunchrooms, phone rooms, and on occasion, sleeping quarters. As a result, Dodge was the first to come out with that wide centre flip down armrest that was flat on top so one could set files etc down on it. The designers also discovered laptop computers were in the cabs, hence the need for extra cigarette lighters, coffee cup holders, (not wine), and now 120 VAC receptacles. The two door mini cab evolved into the 4 door Mega cab and then you really could sleep overnight on the site - undesirable, but not that uncommon. Why LR cannot find space for future dash switches and a hole thru the firewall for extra wires or ...... The reason I believe is that the boffins who design Land Rovers either take the Tube or ride bicycles to work. They should be required to drive their designs to work each day. Stalled a few times on the M? on the way home or with the wife and crying kids on board, I am confident reliability would dramatically improve. Rather than suicide doors, doors that merely opened a full ninety degrees might seem to make more sense - but none of that would make for good show business - but a business case, I wonder?

When I first saw it I thought the rear quarter looked like a Territory. Some styling resemblance looking from the front too.

Ford haven't been involved with Land Rover since 2008. I doubt they have any influence of design on the new Disco.