Thread: Discovery 5

A more carefully selected sequence of innocuous highlights you will never find! I'm surprised there's not a shot of the new disco driving on Mars.

Where's the year long slog in the desert? The battle scars? The CFA fire truck version? the GIJoe version? ...oh that's right, that's not the market for Land Rover any more...it's the occasional puddle splash and dash to 'climb' big red or a designer 'experience' in the Sahara that is the target market of all luxury urban centric middling soft-roaders, that is now the one-direction for Land Rover. The spin has begun.... Bring on the cries of dinosaur lover and Luddite! I don't care. Disco 5 is first and foremost a toorak tractor. 👍😎

Ha ha ha well written MrLandy, though you will never understand, or maybe you do.

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Originally Posted by scarry

We will have to wait and see,the last of the D4's are a very well sorted vehicle.

No doubt about it, and as another poster mentioned, the design has held strong for 10 years. It's just unusual to see such a significant departure from a design evolution in favour of a more standardised corporate face.

To my eyes, there's a very obvious progression in the image below, with one very orange exception...



Not taking away from any of the designs above in their own right, but JLR will age the D4 by ten years when they release the D5. That probably means there'll be some bargains to be had before that happens though

Kind of like the Holden jump...

VK - VL - VN

Originally Posted by MrLandy

A more carefully selected sequence of innocuous highlights you will never find! I'm surprised there's not a shot of the new disco driving on Mars.



Where's the year long slog in the desert? The battle scars? The CFA fire truck version? the GIJoe version? ...oh that's right, that's not the market for Land Rover any more...it's the occasional puddle splash and dash to 'climb' big red or a designer 'experience' in the Sahara that is the target market of all luxury urban centric middling soft-roaders, that is now the one-direction for Land Rover. The spin has begun.... Bring on the cries of dinosaur lover and Luddite! I don't care. Disco 5 is first and foremost a toorak tractor.

BWahahaha

The GIJoe version......

Being great mates with an SAS Medic who did a few tours in 'Stan - do you know what a certain region was called?

CV alley...

Because all the Perenties would blow CVs whilst driving through it...


Anywho.... Landies as combat vehicles are done... not enough IED protection.... Bush Masters etc are the combat vehicle of choice now.


Plenty of D4s are roaring across Australian deserts, the CSR etc without issue... this is just a stylised version...


Go enjoy your Defender.

Less yarping and more driving

Nice to see the flat load space when the seats are folded is retained (unlike the L494):

Land Rover Discovery 2017 - Pictures | Auto Express

The lower section of the tailgate there looks like the floating panel in the D4's lower section - looks like there could be a split tailgate!

Originally Posted by Grentarc

The lower section of the tailgate there looks like the floating panel in the D4's lower section - looks like there could be a split tailgate!

You could be right Justin, LR would retain some points if it is there. Come to think of it, LR did not shown the rear end at all in the seat demo video/pics, perhaps they are hiding something