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Nick Jan Member Since: 23 Aug 2007 Location: Nr Shoreham-by-sea, West Sussex Posts: 441 |
Can we now claim that this topic is the most read and commented one of the forum, apart from just one sticky?!
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18th Jan 2015 12:45 am |
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Budweiser Member Since: 16 Apr 2013 Location: Essex Posts: 50 |
Wish it was a PHEV |
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18th Jan 2015 8:33 pm |
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Tradewind 35 Member Since: 04 Dec 2012 Location: Cornwall Posts: 441 |
LR have not exactly gone out of their way to woo those who are hacked off by their obsession with bling, complexity, expense and fragility in their recent models. The DS launch has not been one of their finest, particularly as far as the UK market is concerned.
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18th Jan 2015 11:54 pm |
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j77 Member Since: 26 Nov 2008 Location: Fife Posts: 2909 |
You can have 17" wheels but only as an accessory. Not offered as standard, no surprise there.
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19th Jan 2015 11:38 am |
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Dartman the one Member Since: 04 Apr 2013 Location: Seville, Spain Posts: 1681 |
I'm due a terrapod experience with a DS on Wednesday, whether or not there will be an option for a road test I'm not sure, but would seem to be silly not to have a road test. There will be other models also to experience, my worry about the DS is the headroom in the boot, but I will find that out, pooch will not have his pod lowered to fit the DS. I have no objection to LR following a fashion and a specific market, the DS looks OK, but one of the advantages of the LR is its choices for the urban luxury cruiser with a go anywhere capability and the luxury go anywhere utility vehicle that has a load capability of a small van. I suppose the question is, how much of its customer base requires the latter, if it's not much, then it's going the right way, if not it may run into problems, the FFRR,, Disco 4 and FL2 sold well, as do the RRS Ewok and apparently the DS. The traditionalists will always consider LR to have a utility option and RR go its own way to chase the cash, but if the perceived ruggedness disappears with the chase for the urban status symbol and fashion will the appeal be there in future? No one buys a BMW for its ruggedness, though they do for a perceived quality and reliability, but Jaguar is now chasing that market. Depends on your definition of fit for purpose and your purpose my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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19th Jan 2015 1:42 pm |
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Dartman the one Member Since: 04 Apr 2013 Location: Seville, Spain Posts: 1681 |
Well it was there, not able to drive it. Yes nice looking, but for my part it was bitty, neither functional enough as country vehicle, too small a tailgate entrance and interior roof line too low for my purposes, no flat floor. Huge panoramic roof but doesn't open, there seems to be a cover but sunburn when travelling through France in the summer or in the dark. I really think it's an Ewok +2. Unless something comes out in the new Defender range it's a Discovery for me or another make, though I don't really want a Disco sized car or it's VED. I really hope they don't go down this route with the new Disco. The DS is not a car that would be practical for me, too many compromises, yes the volume is larger and so is the load length, but it starts getting short after very short 18" above the floor, I don't think it has a practical load area in shape as the FL2 has, also the seating position is for me too low, you almost look along the bonnet as in people carrier even on the highest setting, maybe that is what it is, albeit with excellent off road ability (hopefully) . Yes I know it's the modern emission beating shape, and possibly the way to go for LR but if it doesn't do what you want it to. you don't buy my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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21st Jan 2015 6:36 pm |
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Nidge N Member Since: 27 Feb 2010 Location: cheshire Posts: 4 |
Land Rover have to get the replacement discovery and defender right. Yes, disco sport is a nice enough product, but it's not purposeful enough for me. And why do all the Land Rover products have to look the same? Range Rover and Land rover should each have their own identitities, not morph into one existence. I suppose that's what you get when you have a single designer. unlike Maurice Wilkes, I can't see Gerry designing the next defender on the beach. |
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21st Jan 2015 8:10 pm |
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j77 Member Since: 26 Nov 2008 Location: Fife Posts: 2909 |
I wasn't sure about it at first, I wasn't even going to go to the preview event but I went and had play around with it come away feeling a bit better. It wasn't until I had my test drive that I was really sold on it, for me it's perfect, yeh I would've liked it to be a bit more butch but size wise it fits the bill, the Evoques too small and my current D4 is perhaps too far the other way. 21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200 |
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21st Jan 2015 11:35 pm |
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Dartman the one Member Since: 04 Apr 2013 Location: Seville, Spain Posts: 1681 |
I agree on size and I don't dislike the shape, however the rear end shape (lower roof line, tailgate entrance) makes it impractical as a utility vehicle. As the salesman said it's a very good car, but it's not a small D4, which is the ultimate LR but bloody big, there again it's not meant to be, unfortunately now, there is no small D4 at the moment. one hopes. You don't even get an electric seat on a D4 now even at £53K. my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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22nd Jan 2015 8:54 am |
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j77 Member Since: 26 Nov 2008 Location: Fife Posts: 2909 |
Agreed the D4 is the ultimate LR. Perhaps I'll keep the DS for a few years and see what happens with the Disco 5 or whatever it will be called. 21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200 |
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22nd Jan 2015 10:58 am |
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DennisV Member Since: 15 Jan 2012 Location: West Midlands Posts: 147 |
Saw the Discovery Sport at the dealers today. It looks good but It does seem to be more an Evoque+2 than a Freelander replacement.
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22nd Jan 2015 4:23 pm |
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ASL1956 Member Since: 29 Feb 2012 Location: Newark Posts: 8 |
I'm in the same place as you. I was put off by the potential of the Ingenium engine going in with 204 HP but LR adamant that the only Ingenium will be the TD4e (2 while drive version) going into production in June/July. There is no doubt that it will ultimately replace the PSA 2.2 in at the minute at some point, rumoured 2017 when that capacity at the new factory ramps up. In the meantime they are all going into the Jaguar and especially the XC17. Having driven the DS Saturday at a local LR launch event I ordered an HSE the next day. I love my FL2 but it does now look dated next to the DS. |
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22nd Jan 2015 4:28 pm |
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Purplemadboy Member Since: 22 Jul 2014 Location: Scotland Posts: 1079 |
Saw a DS today , what a lovely car . The one I saw was scotia grey , to me it looked good , apart from the grey plastic cover for the pedestrian airbag on the bonnet. Inside I was pleasantly surprise with the cirrus leather seats and with matching dash and door cards. On the Land Rover website cirrus looks a very light grey but in fact it's just a shade lighter than Ivory, all in all it works well . To me that's where the good bits end . As you may have noticed I called it a car not a 4x4 , this is because you sit so low in it , I bet a new mini towers above the DS . The salesmen tried to raise the seat but my headroom disappeared, I'm 6'2" and I couldn't get the command driving position and be comfortable, then there's the rear view mirror, it felt very close to my face . I know some things have to be a bit come and go , but that mirror was just annoying. No stadium seating in the middle row & with the car being lower than the freelander already the view from the Middle row was er car like .
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23rd Jan 2015 6:27 pm |
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j77 Member Since: 26 Nov 2008 Location: Fife Posts: 2909 |
The brochure shows it with stadium seating
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23rd Jan 2015 7:50 pm |
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