110CSW
Member Since: 19 Oct 2005
Location: Scotland
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dubbs wrote:Keep D3/D4 and buy a secondhand DB9 for fun instead of the horrendous depreciation the D5 will have over a 4 year period.
Sometimes sensible can be far more fun!!! Besides, if you want to do anything more interesting than being an oversized tarmac terrorist the D4 will be better suited.
D4 and DB9 or a D5..... hmmmmm.....
That said despite disliking the cheap interior and rear boot issues there’s a dark green si6 I’ve been seeing for some time now that does look good with a black pack... the design definitely softens the more you see it.
Already have a large engined GT but agree with the statement. 2014MY Discovery
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 14th May 2018 12:18 pm |
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Tripe
Member Since: 28 Jun 2015
Location: Tasmania
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Another month and no new D5's sighted On the road, this makes 4 months since my last sighting.
A quick google check and D5 demonstartors available for purchase has jumped by 20% since i last looked.
Another quick look on April sales figures shows the range rover sport and Velar selling like hot cakes and then the LR model they dont talk about sales figures, is umm, not talked about again?
I wonder when LR will realise that LR loyalist don't want a femine car, designed for yummy mummies going to thier kids saturday morning football.
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| 21st May 2018 11:28 pm |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
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To be fair, the Disco 5 was their intentional attempt to break out from the traditionalist market and go for the mainstream / yummy mummy / Saturday morning football mums instead. Its been successful, in part; I believe there are plenty of them in and around London and the home counties, with a great many probably doing sterling service on the school run.
It might have done a lot better than has done, if that darn Velar hadn't come along and filled that role rather better and with a great deal more style. 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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| 22nd May 2018 5:13 am |
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Tripe
Member Since: 28 Jun 2015
Location: Tasmania
Posts: 285
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It’s more than obvious, the D5 has the Porsche Boxster problem.
It’s aimed at females and people who don’t have a enough money to by a Range Rover
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| 22nd May 2018 5:38 am |
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J77
Member Since: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Fife
Posts: 6270
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Can’t afford a Range Rover? Have you looked at the D5 prices, and they’ve went up again, you can easily get one well into Range Rover money. 23.5MY Defender 90 X-Dynamic SE D250 MHEV Pangea Green
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| 22nd May 2018 5:59 am |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
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I'm sure that LR can fix that with the next round of RR price increases  2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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| 22nd May 2018 6:17 am |
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DG
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Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
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Come down to my neck of the woods... I see a dozen+ every day and the majority are driven by men ...mainly city slicker types...that excludes me of course 
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| 22nd May 2018 7:17 am |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
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Red Merle wrote:I believe there are plenty of them in and around London and the home counties, with a great many probably doing sterling service on the school run.
I hadn't forgotten you DG  2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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| 22nd May 2018 7:31 am |
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Gareth
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Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
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**STOP PRESS**
There are now 3 D5’s on my road. What’s significant about that? I hear you ask. Well, there are now only 2 D3’s or 4’s including mine, and one of those is a V8 so doesn’t really count!
Analysis of the D5 owners suggests 2 have come from previous LR product, both RR Sport. 1 of those is a JLR employee from Halewood. The other swapped a Q7 for the D5.
No point to make, just observing...
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| 22nd May 2018 9:04 am |
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Dan_NL
Member Since: 19 Sep 2010
Location: world
Posts: 1213
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dubbs wrote:Keep D3/D4 and buy a secondhand DB9 for fun instead of the horrendous depreciation the D5 will have over a 4 year period.
Sometimes sensible can be far more fun!!! Besides, if you want to do anything more interesting than being an oversized tarmac terrorist the D4 will be better suited.
D4 and DB9 or a D5..... hmmmmm.....
That said despite disliking the cheap interior and rear boot issues there’s a dark green si6 I’ve been seeing for some time now that does look good with a black pack... the design definitely softens the more you see it.
Why spend a fortune on buying a DB9 if you can get a new F-Type for the same money, with guarantee
and 3 yr service included.. .. V6 is just as much fun. From what you safe on maintenance cost you can
go on a trip every month a whole weekend...
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| 22nd May 2018 9:17 am |
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kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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Gareth wrote:**STOP PRESS**
There are now 3 D5’s on my road. What’s significant about that? I hear you ask. Well, there are now only 2 D3’s or 4’s including mine, and one of those is a V8 so doesn’t really count!
Wait, what? The V8 is obviously the only one that counts!
Humans are transported with petrol, cargo with diesel...
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| 22nd May 2018 10:11 am |
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Dan_NL
Member Since: 19 Sep 2010
Location: world
Posts: 1213
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Well, my 'intellectual cargo' is endlessly more then any animal, most humans included...
Thats why I drive a diesel.. 
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| 22nd May 2018 12:30 pm |
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kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6753
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I swap between petrol and diesel depending on which hat to keep on
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| 22nd May 2018 2:03 pm |
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Swiss4x4
Member Since: 20 Jan 2017
Location: Switzerland
Posts: 13
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Red Merle wrote:To be fair, the Disco 5 was their intentional attempt to break out from the traditionalist market and go for the mainstream / yummy mummy / Saturday morning football mums instead. Its been successful, in part; I believe there are plenty of them in and around London and the home counties, with a great many probably doing sterling service on the school run.
It might have done a lot better than has done, if that darn Velar hadn't come along and filled that role rather better and with a great deal more style.
I agree with this to a certain extent. I think they did aim at the yummy mummy as that is a lucrative market, however they just didn't execute it well! For this market, SUVs like the new XC90 are just so much better for this market.
The D5 just falls between two stools, it is not a great D4 replacement, and in the yummy mummy market, there are better designed alternatives. LR aimed between two targets and missed both.
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| 3rd Jun 2018 7:25 am |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
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Agreed.
It’s exactly the problem of leaving such a specialist market (that it had previously dominated) and moving into the mainstream; there are so many other manufacturers already doing “mainstream” rather better.
The Volvo is a car that deserves to do well. It’s still a pretty mainstream, road biased, MPV/SUV with some all wheel drive capability, but it still manages to claim the territory, halfway between “BMW/Audi” and “interesting”, as it’s own 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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| 3rd Jun 2018 7:37 am |
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