chopdogs
Member Since: 03 Mar 2010
Location: Wiltshire
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Taking it up a Scottish mountain with only mud terrain tyres and a winch added over and above standard kit
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Above is Part 1 - Part's 2 & 3 come up following the end of Part's 1 & 2 respectively
Seems to have been added to You tube fairly recently - apologies if it's been posted before.
I remember it when it was originally on - made me want a Disco then........and now I have one 
chopdogs 14 Disco 4 HSE
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 14th Jun 2010 9:49 am |
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Delta Mike
Member Since: 23 Feb 2009
Location: Highland
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Excellent, I remember seeing this at the time and wanting one as well. Took me a little while though!
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| 14th Jun 2010 10:01 am |
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GrannyLR3
Member Since: 13 May 2010
Location: North California Wine County
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Thanks for sharing. I hadn't seen this one and really enjoyed it. Granville "Granny" Pool
North California Wine Country
'92 Range Rover "Ziggy"
'06 LR3/Discovery III SE7 V8
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| 15th Jun 2010 5:50 am |
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Woody3
Member Since: 15 Feb 2010
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 215
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I love this video! Been searching for this video for a while now!
Thanks
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| 15th Jun 2010 9:31 pm |
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Gareth
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Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
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When this was originally shown, it made me go out and order a new D3, picked it up on 29th Nov 2004, did nearly 130k miles in it, now on my second D3.
Clarkson did more for sales of the D3 with that program, than any of LR's initial marketing did.
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| 15th Jun 2010 9:35 pm |
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Dave
Member Since: 08 Mar 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
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Good to see it again, absolute class 
Makes me feel proud for the extremely well engineered pile of various metals and electronics  Captain Nick Medhurst would ask:
"What is the first rule when overlanding?"
I would Reply:
"Duratrac"
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| 15th Jun 2010 10:20 pm |
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wvlenthe
Member Since: 07 Jan 2009
Location: Arnhem
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Aren't all episodes on the bbc site then?
A few months ago, the 'Bolivian' adventure was on here (we are running behind a few years), I couldn't see it completely. I watched the rest of the episode on the bbc site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj59/series
regards,
Wiljo
ps I've seen the D3 episode more than once as well  D3 V8 HSE Auto in Zermatt silver - driveway version gone but not forgotten, only the living room cupboard version remains
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| 17th Jun 2010 8:35 pm |
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chopdogs
Member Since: 03 Mar 2010
Location: Wiltshire
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I also remember that Clarkson won an end of year Top Gear award - Cock of the Year, I think (the award was, I seem to remember a chicken statuette)
Apparently, following filming the helicopter which had been used for the aerial shots landed and picked him up - so he could get home quickly.
On his arrival home he emptied out his pockets and found..........
.........the key to the Disco which was, of course, still at the top of the mountain  14 Disco 4 HSE
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| 22nd Jun 2010 10:43 am |
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mickyd4
Member Since: 26 Jun 2010
Location: North
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I watched it too.. such a change from the Discovery 2 I was unsure about it with the press release images in the magazines....
That changed when watching that episode of Top Gear.. It made me want one after seeing what it did with a winch and some knobbly tyres!!!
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| 4th Aug 2010 11:34 pm |
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John C
Member Since: 28 Aug 2007
Location: East Yorkshire
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Bought mine after seeing it. Had a D2 at the time - but that swung it
Haven't looked recently, but the quote about dropping your 500m watch in the washing up bowl is brilliant - use that all the time  2020 SDV6 D5 HSE, Carpathian Grey +
2022 Tesla Model Y LR... almost Carpathian Grey
Previously : 2005 TDV6 SE Auto, Cairns Blue (288K) - ours for 16 years
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| 5th Aug 2010 8:07 am |
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AVE
D3 Decade
Member Since: 12 Nov 2006
Location: First house on the left
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Also got mine after seeing the programme.
I love his 'bushcraft' tips!
 I wonder how many D3's had the reg BX04? I've only ever seen one, in the carpark at Liverpool One a fe month back. As you slide down the banister of life
may no splinters point your way
Disco XXV
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY16
Discovery Sport HSE Lux MY17
Evoque HSE Dynamic MY16 (Gone)
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY14 (Lovely car but preferred the Disco!)
Disco 3 Tdv6 HSE MY05 (owned for 11 years and now gone)
Range Rover Sport HSE MY11 (Gone)
Freelander2 SE (Gone but the most reliable car we've ever owned)
Disco 2 V8 (Gone)
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| 5th Aug 2010 8:58 am |
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mad max
Member Since: 28 Jan 2010
Location: braintree essex
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Watched this loads of times just love it. Going to go out for ride in mine now  
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| 15th Sep 2010 5:02 pm |
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A1GSS
Member Since: 12 Sep 2010
Location: Saffron Walden, Essex
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I'd forgotten this, a TG classic I think. Quite inspirational... ____
Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey
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| 15th Sep 2010 5:26 pm |
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IKke
Member Since: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Brabant
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wvlenthe wrote:Aren't all episodes on the bbc site then?
A few months ago, the 'Bolivian' adventure was on here (we are running behind a few years), I couldn't see it completely. I watched the rest of the episode on the bbc site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj59/series
regards,
Wiljo
ps I've seen the D3 episode more than once as well
Whenever I try to watch something on the BBC site it says: "Not available in your country", how come you can watch them? 
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| 16th Sep 2010 2:46 pm |
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wvlenthe
Member Since: 07 Jan 2009
Location: Arnhem
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IKke wrote:how come you can watch them?
Just checked and I'm getting that now too. I'm quite sure I have watched Bolivia at BBC though.
If you are specifically after Top Gear, they are available at Veronica (just the last one) or at http://www.hebikietsgemist.nl/programma/14...-gear.html (which also links to Veronica strange enough).
You could use an anonimizer (google for anonimous surfing) but I haven't tried that and surely haven't done so last time.
regards,
Wiljo D3 V8 HSE Auto in Zermatt silver - driveway version gone but not forgotten, only the living room cupboard version remains
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