I have been round LRs track at Gaydon in a SCRRS at just under 140mph and round the high intensity track at silly speeds, no squeaks or rattles were evident!! D4 HSE Lux for me
FL2 HSE Zermatt & Alpacca for the wife now gone
Skoda Yeti L&K for the wife.

pelyma wrote:

I have been round LRs track at Gaydon in a SCRRS at just under 140mph and round the high intensity track at silly speeds, no squeaks or rattles were evident!!

Obviously you weren't trying hard enough

You were pulling too many G's and the loose bits were held in place by the force of nature, slow it down a bit

I'd love to say it was me driving, but it was a LRE driver, the only squeals were the tyres!! D4 HSE Lux for me
FL2 HSE Zermatt & Alpacca for the wife now gone
Skoda Yeti L&K for the wife.

pelyma wrote:

I'd love to say it was me driving, but it was a LRE driver, the only squeals were the tyres!!

AHA...........another method of covering up them squeaks!!!

And the super charged whine They should do a SC Fl2 that would be  D4 HSE Lux for me
FL2 HSE Zermatt & Alpacca for the wife now gone
Skoda Yeti L&K for the wife.

pelyma wrote:

And the super charged whine They should do a SC Fl2 that would be

I've been trying to find any tuning companies stateside that have done anything on the i6, but nothing at all.....I would definately be interested in putting a blower on mine when I get it.

There were rumours of a black badged one, but it seems either LR are keeping it up their sleeves or it was BS D4 HSE Lux for me
FL2 HSE Zermatt & Alpacca for the wife now gone
Skoda Yeti L&K for the wife.

I was going through all your replies and I tend to conclude that D3 TDV6 and FL2 TD4 have about the same consumption (about 32mpg). Is that correct? Is it also true that the D3 is slow? I read the same 0-60 figures for both of them. The one I test drove was tuned and it drove like hell and the handling was so perfect. It cornered like a train! As far as the interior is concerned I've seen some bad photos of the 2008 D3 and I believe it's gonna look great (anyone know where I could see some proper pictures of the new model on the net?).
I was passing outside my dealer's today and stopped for a quick glimpse at the two cars again. And after two week of thinking of 'upgrading' to a Disco, god, the FL2 now look so small! Maybe I mistrained my brain cells!

You are on your own with this one fella...we can share our thoughts, opinions, preferences, but its down to you at the end of the day.......at least you are staying with Land Rover, so one resulting answer is good so far, as for which........ Good Luck

If you're getting 32mpg from your TD4 Auto FL2, then I'd expect about 27mpg from a D3 TDV6 Auto

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Averaging 31.6mpg in TD4 auto after 600 miles, that includes my lowest avearge of 8.5mpg after clearing the computer memory and booting it down the nearby dual carriageway from stand still, only got the manual down to I think it was 10 or 12mpg doing that, but certainly never single figures

carlfraz wrote:

Averaging 31.6mpg in TD4 auto after 600 miles, that includes my lowest avearge of 8.5mpg after clearing the computer memory and booting it down the nearby dual carriageway from stand still, only got the manual down to I think it was 10 or 12mpg doing that, but certainly never single figures

Because I am a really sad bastard (I'm saying that before anyone else!!) I can tell you that my car has averaged 37.04 mpg over 16,840 miles. That is calculated by miles driven against fuel put it, not the on board computer. I think that is pretty good, I'm well pleased with that......

Just gone into LR site to check the figures. Have a look:

http://www.landrover.co.uk/gb/en/Vehicles/...rmance.htm

Only the urban cycle is very different. What amazed me though is the noise level difference: 73dB for TD4 manual, 68db for auto. Could that be so Carl? You've driven both...