Thread: Discovery Sport

Originally Posted by Meken

They are probably referring to extended off-road height which the car will do if it thinks it is on it's belly - but you cannot manually select it

The specs were referring to "access mode" which lowers the air suspension by 50mm for ease of access.
There is also a high mode which can be selected manually on a switch but is over-ridden if speeds get too high.
Extended mode is automatic. But no-one is talking about that.

This basic scheme hasn't changed between my 93 classic with EAS and a MY12 RRS.

Chances are it has an extended height so if you get stuck and bottom out like a D3/4 has, if that's the case then hopefully a Llams kit will plug in and then give access to the extra height at the turn of a switch.

Maybe they were referring to the point that you can use 'Access Mode' to trick the suspension into going into extended height?


Which isn't completely automatic in a D4 .... it automatically raises, but has some more height in the bag of tricks if manually selected, once auto is engaged.


Guess we'll have to wait and see. Even now, after D4's being on the road since 2009, Journo's still get it wrong ... so what chance have the guys in a brand new car got?

Originally Posted by Celtoid

Maybe they were referring to the point that you can use 'Access Mode' to trick the suspension into going into extended height?

Huh?
Access mode is lower. Not higher. It is mentioned in the specs in reference to lowering the height of the vehicle.

This isn't a journo article. This is on landrovers site.

Originally Posted by Dougal

Huh? Access mode is lower. Not higher. It is mentioned in the specs in reference to lowering the height of the vehicle. This isn't a journo article. This is on landrovers site.

Heh Dougal,

You can put something under the car (or a naturally occurring rock on a track), drop the car down, and when it grounds, the car detects this and then rises to extended height....and you can then hold the brake and select the offroad height button and it goes to super extended height, so essentially it is being tricked.

This might be in context what he was taking about.

Brett....

Of course this is if it has air

Anyone care to guess the price point?

Would be great if it wasn't that much more than he current freelander however i can see it climbing up will into the reaches of 90K plus for the luxury with some of the option boxes ticked.

I reckon you are right I anticipate the top end Disco Sport will be about on par with a 'base' model RR Evoque.

LR is positioning itself as a premium brand... in case it had escaped anyone's attention !