https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/land-r...spartanntp

Sales gimmick time to save JLR? Updated- Waiting for a Scotland v England 6 Nations home win. 24th Feb 2018
Gone-1972 88 SWB Soft top
Gone-1981 24v FFR Lightweight
Gone-2009 Freelander 2 TD4 GS manual
Gone before it bankrupted me- 2008 Discovery 3 TDV6 Auto
2013 Freelander 2 SD4 GS Auto

Panoramic glass roof, privacy glass, Meridian speakers blah blah...…..yawn.... OK if you want such things then all well and good to get them thrown in for our £59Grand.
I would however have been much more interested if they had produced an anniversary Utlility grade D5 - much as Toyota do with the Utility Landcruiser. Strip out some of the electronic toys, give it a set of wheels for off road use, trim the spec back a bit and pretend it is aimed at the customers who used to buy and love Land Rovers...….

Land Rover announced that nearly two weeks ago.

Pity it’s based on a one spec above entry with the poverty spec rear tailights  MY14 Kahn Converted Dynamic - Fuji White Ebony/Pimento Interior
MY15 Xenon Headlight Conversion

MY17 RRS SVR - Estoril Blue Cirrus/Ebony 🪣💺’s

Just had a dip into the LR Disco 5 web site to see what they were doing to convince me that this was the sort of vehicle I referred to.
I quote as an example - "An Ebony finisher on the door and instrument panel adds crafted detail to create an air of cultured modern living and your own individual space."
What crap! What are these people on?
For fiddles sake , I do not want my car to create cultured modern living and my own individual space.
I want it NOT TO BREAK DOWN and I want it to have modest running costs...….
Is that too much to ask?

Is someone with a 12 year old Freelander really going to consider spending 60k or so on a brand new Disco 5 or just knock it for the sake of having a go at JLR?

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That’s a belter  MY14 Kahn Converted Dynamic - Fuji White Ebony/Pimento Interior
MY15 Xenon Headlight Conversion

MY17 RRS SVR - Estoril Blue Cirrus/Ebony 🪣💺’s

Land Rover go anywhere, except if it's a diesel! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

dondiddy wrote:

Is someone with a 12 year old Freelander really going to consider spending 60k or so on a brand new Disco 5 or just knock it for the sake of having a go at JLR?

I could but I would rather windup one Mr Nut  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

we’ve got a HSE Luxury Dynamic Supercharged Si6 in the family and I got a soft spot for it

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But, for the same money, you can get a really nice one

https://used.landrover.co.uk/search#/details/2916507

The last of its kind, with only 26 miles

Tigger this is a real one! With solid live axels. Oh guess what no spilt tailgate

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Nice find Tigger

The last of the proper Land Rovers - not a fan of the Disco 5 Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

Tell me about it

I’ve got a D5 loaner again for a few days and while I’m grateful for the loaner, I struggle to see the appeal.

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LR NUT wrote:

Tigger this is a real one! With solid live axels. Oh guess what no spilt tailgate

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I’ve got a soft spot for the Disco 2. It’s a good looking and properly practical and has that huge glasshouse and low waste line that was carried over to the ‘3, while it had the great dip on one side of the rear window and a good reason for not having a split tailgate (to make it cheaper than the RR that it was closely based on)

There’s a really strong link in styling all the way from the D1, through the ‘2 all the way to the end of the Discovery production in 2016