It amazes me that folk are so easily parted with their money, £4500 for a 10 year old Discovery, someone saw them coming. It's so easy these days to do a little research before any large purchase, 5 mins on the internet owners forums would have convinced them there are better buys out there. As for the Disco, a friend has just bought an 05 reg from main dealer, and it's an absolute dog, £1500 brake servo bill already plus electric handbrake failure, he's only had it 3 months. Similar story in the street here, with a neighbour. And then you read the popular mags and they can't stop raving about them, then in the same mag's reliability surveys they are languishing at the bottom as usual!

Probably needs it to collect the organic veg from the farmers' market.

You can't really blame LR factory workers (or indeed BL workers) for designing/approving a chassis that rusted through in short order due to the poor paint procedures, or aluminium panels reacting similarly, nor did they design gearboxes with a short in service useable life..and they certainly didn't authorise stickers to be applied to auto gearboxes informing that they were sealed for life...ho ho ho...what a wheeze.

My problem with LR is that they have never managed to put a proper Diesel engine in till the V8 lump arrived...that really is an addictive engine.;), Disco 3 and 4 (and RR sport which is a Disco in a short frock) weigh in at 2.7 tons, that needs a proper engine to get rolling, the 2.7 simply wasn't up to it needing lots of revs leading to serious clutch wear, the 3.0 is a little better but still lacks low revved grunt IMHO.

Meanwhile, Toyota has had the Diesel 4.2 6 pot in NA and TD form for years, now upped to 4.5 V8, and only fitted the 3 litre td (4cyl 750cc per cyl so fantastic torque from low revs) to lighter models since early 90's, ISTR some older Landcruisers in other markets having 4 litre 4 cyl petrol engines, you could probably have direct drive with that lump.

LR have no problem selling cars though, they have the badge and the kudos for those who want or need it, and the likes of TG and other comedy media on side, to be fair the big stuff do at least look the part which is what its all about in the market they pursue.