Starting to grow on me, I like the look of this one...
EXPLORING THE 2017 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY 5 " D5 " OFF ROAD OPTIONS - Expedition Portal
just buy a perentie
Well, if you are going to wait for the new Defender you better pack a tent and a big lunch. It's not due for release until 2020 and that may mean longer by the time it gets Australian release.
Paul
D2,D2,D2a,D4,'09 Defender 110(sons), all moved on.
'56 S1,been in the family since...'56
Comes out of hibernation every few months for a run
I am obviously in the minority but I like the shape and the interior looks pretty amazing. More importantly (as it would be her car) the wife loves it.
We recently moved back to the family farm and are now half looking at moving from her Volvo XC60 to a Disco. We have two pups - a lab and a border collie and we need more room. Also we feel a Land Rover should handle the roads better.
We'd like the D5 but currently thinking we may pick up an older D4 for the next couple of years to wait for the D5 to iron out any issues (and by then we may have a new Defender and maybe I can convince her that will be better).
Hi EastFreo, and you are not alone here.
Over the past month or so, I have had quite a few NEW D4 owners ordering DBS kit for their NEW D4s.
Many have made statements similar to yours, where they had been excitedly waiting for the D5, only to be disappointed and have bought a NEW D4 in preference to the underwhelming D5.
On a similar note, I was recently asked by the local LR dealership, to give a quote and possibility of fitting one of my DBS to a new Range Rover Vogue.
After spending some time crawling around a new RRV, I decided it was not worth my time to make up a new kit for these, as there is not likely to be much of a demand for this new RRV model.
After crawling around the new RRV, I was very pleased I have now gone down another road.
I have a new MY17 Tiguan and I was astonished to find the RRV had no more cabin space, and may be even less cabin space than my Tiguan.
My 2007 RRV interior is literally a concert hall compared the the lavotory cubical sized interior of the new RRV.
I did not get a chance to look over a D5 but it sounds like it has been designed with the same CAR size mentality the new RRV is.
It is blatantly obvious that Land Rover is aiming at a different market to it’s traditional one.
I wouldn't get too worried if I were you.
I've been around the Land Rover scene since 1999. I well remember in the early 2000s rumours started to go around that the new Range Rover was going to get independent suspension. What? Didn't Land Rover realise that would mean the four wheel drive capacity would be compromised, because beam axles were necessary to keep all the wheels on the ground to give traction? This will be the end of Land Rover as a serious off road vehicle!
Well, it happened. In 2002 the new Rangie was released with independent suspension. A few years later the Discovery 3 did the same. But things had changed. There was a mysterious yellow button for 'Terrain Response'. And these independent suspension Land Rovers went far better off road than any of the beam axle ones.
Then there were rumours that Land Rover was about to release a model without a low range gearbox. End of the world Mk 2! It happened on the Evoque and the Disco Sport. But...the Disco Sport has a 9 speed gearbox. Which is one more gear than any of my beam axle Range Rovers had with both high and low range combined. And the Disco Sport is quite capable off road.
So, people will complain about change and progress. And not every change suits everybody. But I am glad that we are not still with the beam axles we had back in the old days of the Rangie Classics. Progress is good, and there is some real good progress in Land Rover at the moment.
But the D5 is just plain dog ugly. Even the previous model - the fridge on 4 wheels looks better - and is more practical.
REMLR 243
2007 Range Rover Sport TDV6
1977 FC 101
1976 Jaguar XJ12C
1973 Haflinger AP700
1971 Jaguar V12 E-Type Series 3 Roadster
1957 Series 1 88"
1957 Series 1 88" Station Wagon
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