No driving through the brakes on a D4?

Yes, that must be why LR designed it with so many electronic driver aids. They accurately knew their target demographic - lord knows I'm much more interested in not spilling my latte than having any driving skills. Thank the computers, I've never had a spill.

My computers will have nothing to do - I dont drink coffee:p

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Originally Posted by Epic pooh

Yes, that must be why LR designed it with so many electronic driver aids. They accurately knew their target demographic - lord knows I'm much more interested in not spilling my latte than having any driving skills. Thank the computers, I've never had a spill.

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You may be saying that sarcastically...

But that isn't too far from the truth hahaha...

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Originally Posted by Basil135

How many people have tried the hill start in the D4?

Pull the EPB on, place vehicle in gear, accelerate away. There is no roll back, as the EPB holds you until you are moving forward. I showed SWMBO this, with the other 5 seats full of ours, and friends kids :cool:

Yes, it was a sealed road, but fairly steep, and would require a hill start in a manual, without the added person weight on board.

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I had an early sixties Studebaker that had a hill start system - as I recall, it had a ball bearing in the master cylinder, that maintained the brake pressure until the clutch was released. Nothing's really new, is it? :D

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Yeah, many older subes have had really good hill holders over the years. I always found it to be kind of a redundant feature on a manual car with a proper handbrake.

A hill holder is quite a different thing to an (overly complicated) auto release epb that can't be used in the manner of a normal handbrake.