Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15263
Disco3 to Disco5 conversion …
…… using sticky back plastic.
Why bother.
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...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
29th Nov 2022 4:50 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14386
LR got the D3/4 so right. If there is ever a D6, they could learn a lot buy revisiting what made it such a good wagon.New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
29th Nov 2022 5:10 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73079
Now u know you’re going to upset peeps by subtly suggesting they got it so wrong with the D5.
My thoughts are they got the new model RRS so right, they then had to make amends. Ying and yang and all that.
29th Nov 2022 5:16 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 14129
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29th Nov 2022 5:25 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73079
And just when we think it couldn’t get any worse!!
It does.
29th Nov 2022 5:27 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 14129
Just for u, something betterer than worserer
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29th Nov 2022 5:41 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23823
I've said it before many times, I just wish JLR would do to the D4 what MB have done to the G-Wagen. Give it a range of specs. from poverty to luxury and reap the rewards as it did with the D3/4.
Of course they won't ever do that, as it would steal so many Defender and FFRR sales.
2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
hmmm ... the stepped roofline seems to have been given the Ssang-Yong treatment.
29th Nov 2022 5:48 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8134
Someone lost their 'french curves' and found their rule..........
30th Nov 2022 7:47 am
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6400
OMG LR goes with fashion rather than with good design practices and practicality
Even famous Grenadier is crap for true utilitarian offroader not really being offroader
where is the world going?
30th Nov 2022 8:36 am
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23823
Don’t forget the above is an Autocar image, based on what they are guessing the next Discovery may look like.
Reality is the genuine one will probably look worse. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
30th Nov 2022 9:01 am
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6400
30th Nov 2022 9:22 am
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13541
LT wrote:
Don’t forget the above is an Autocar image, based on what they are guessing the next Discovery may look like.
Reality is the genuine one will probably look worse.
The new one will just be a rehash of the D5 - it's how LR do things these days. Look at the RRS as L494 and then the newer L461. They're very similar externally (compared to the jump from L320 to L494). I doubt a new D6 will be much more than a gentle restyle of the D5's exterior with the big changes being internally and mechanically (PHEV stuff, etc.).Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
30th Nov 2022 10:18 am
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23823
Yes, no doubt it will share a lot of L460 styling.
With both the L460 FFRR and Defender having the option of 7 seats, it’s hard to see what the target market is for the Discovery nowadays.
I cba to look up the recent U.K. sales figures for the D5, but I bet they’re low.2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
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30th Nov 2022 10:32 am
nigethecat
Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
Location: Marnoch
Posts: 4244
And hopefully significant changes to the rear end ! I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
Corris Grey D4 Commercial SE 2016
Zermatt Sliver 2007 D3 SE manual (gone)
Indus Silver D4 HSE 2015 (gone)
Bonatti Grey D3 HSE 2006 (gone)
White D3 S (LHD) 2007 (gone)
Firenze Red D4 HSE 2014 (gone)
Black RRS 3.6TDV8 2008 (gone)
Rusty Green Defender 110 1997 (gone)
Black FL2 HSE 2013 (gone)
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