saw the new disco yesterday !!!!

Yes, Jaguars are often seen along that stretch as well, leading to Gaydon as it does.

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

You sure it was the new Disco and not the new Range Rover Sport or whatever they decide to call it.

I think they should go for one of the following:

- Range Rover Budget

- Range Rover Lite

- Range Rover Hairdresser Edition

- My First Range Rover

Any one of those would be a marketing coup.

David

I hope they make it as reliable as my Td6 Vogue - WAS ;-) Two months off road in seven, sorry six and a half months of ownership....... Just hope my Touareg isn't as bad. Dave

It's got four more cylinders - it'll be 60% worse :@)

P.

Hardly 'budget' given the likely pricing

Separate chassis and lots of toys? Almost 2 tons at a guess.

Only rich hairdressers need apply...

It would be nice to think so!

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

We await your comments on the VW Touareg ownership experience idc, must admit it looks a great deal better than the Porsche Cayenne in the metal (and on paper with that V10 diesel).

I didn't know about the RR 'lite' , as it looked like a scaled down rangie, it might have been, I don't remember seeing the trademark 'step' in the roof, but it may have been disguised. Will try to get a better look next week !!!!

Ooooo. Time to go out looking again!!!

I was seeing a few black rangies in Leamington a good 6 months before they were released. The very first one I saw caught me out a treat, it was about a year before the offical pictures and it was doing speed runs between J12-13 of the M40. A real mule of a test car that in the end didnt look like the new rangie at all. Phew!

Ive seen the new DB9 on the Leamington to Banbury road, as well as a few jags that you just cant tell what they are.

Saw an XKR about 6 months ago on a A45 round about. It was half on the round about, half off it. Front all smashed in. There was a XJR chase case with it that was pulled up trying to hide the damage and the car. Drive slumped on the bonnet with this head in his hands!!!

Looking forward to seeing the new disco and baby rangie!

I had the pleasure of driving the new L322 Range Rover round Sussex in January last year, 2 months before it was released. It was a pre-production left hooker, and hand built. Got a lot of attention, particularly from P38 drivers!

David.

I see them around 8.30 am along that stretch of the Fosse Way, if you are looking.....

pre-production

Wish mine had been HAND BUILT, whoever put mine together must have been BLINDFOLDED and had his hands tied behind his back.......or was that just the mechanics at main dealers ;-)

Dave

The general opinion amongst enthusiasts/owners/most motoring journalists of the next Discovery according to the pictures that have so far been published, appears to be "yuk"! I suspect there is still a very heavy amount of disguise being used on the test vehicles going around at present. Out of this it would be my guess and profound hope that whatever the new car ends up looking like it will not be a total disaster, more a classic Land Rover design, albeit modernised. It's happened in the past........

For example, the odd shape in the rearmost side windows as shown on most pics to date simply isn't Land Rover, and I bet it won't be present on the actual vehicle. Also, it *looks* to me as though the windscreen (and perhaps more of the car) will in fact be shared with the current Range Rover.

Agreed, its going to take a lot for me to be convinced otherwise.....Mind you if they put a CD player in the new disco as standard.........ho ho

I got my CD autochanger fitted to mine for no extra charge........! And with the other bits and pieces I specified I've actually got a 2004 MY GS5 equivalent, even the ISOFIX rear seating is in mine I think........

You may also like to have a look at the Banbury to Daventry road and from there to Southam and then onto Gaydon. I used to live on a cut through from the Banbury/Daventry road at Badby and, every now and then, a strange looking 4x4 would whizz past the place - usually travelling towards Southam, I wondered if they were doing some sort of Leamington, Banbury, Daventry, Gaydon loop ?

Graeme

But that's often the case with new models. I didn't like the P38 when I first saw it, but now I like it enough to buy one. I find it's the same as when you first meet a woman (not necessarily gf - maybe a friend, somebody at work, etc). Not much appeal to start with, but after a few weeks they grow on you, and start to look quite attractive.

Not sure if alcohol also works with new cars.

David.

I always thought the 5 door RR Classic looked odd, the P38 sort of grew on me and the 2002 model just looks like it was overinflated at the factory.

I always liked the Series/Defender look, although the flat front on the Defender doesn't look quite right.

The Discovery just screamed "Landrover" at me the first time I saw it and the Series II was undifferent enough not to break that.

The freelander looked like a joke the first time I saw it and still does.

Anything is better than the lowered X5 I saw yesterday with a full spoiler kit and around 2" ground clearance - WHY???

P.

In a few years, well 2010, all European vehicles will have to comply with pedestrian impact rules as well as the normal car on car crash rules. In this weeks Autocar report they reckon that big 4x4's will have to have the front of their bonnets 150mm ahead of any hard points i.e radiator. with all other items at the front being made of soft materials inc. headlight and indicator lenses. So longer squidgy bonnets. It's also understood that on the big 4x4's the bumper height will probably have to come down to below 500mm with a deep underskirt to spread the load on pedestrians legs. That's your ground clearance buggered! Similarly the bonnet front edge will have to come down by about 250mm leading to a sloping bonnet line like an MPV. LR spokesman says " it's exercising our creativity". I bet it is.