Spotted a discovery sport today

Spotted a discovery sport today

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okie592

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2,711 posts

166 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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Lhd but look good in the flesh.







DUMBO100

1,878 posts

183 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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It looks nice although the styling seems American if that's possible.

cptsideways

13,535 posts

251 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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There are plenty on the roads around Halewood currently

Busterbulldog

670 posts

130 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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Looks a bit Sang yong from the side

unrepentant

21,212 posts

255 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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That's Kaikoura Stone, very nice.

mikeh501

708 posts

180 months

Friday 14th November 2014
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And whats with the huge DISCOVERY letters on the back. looks rank.


2014 Ford Explorer.




GT03ROB

13,207 posts

220 months

Friday 14th November 2014
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mikeh501 said:
And whats with the huge DISCOVERY letters on the back. looks rank.


2014 Ford Explorer.

Ford Explorer looks bettergetmecoat

yellowbentines

5,296 posts

206 months

Friday 14th November 2014
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Looks too 'soft' and girly for me, a Land Rover should look chunky IMO.

And the DISCOVERY decals/badging is too try hard, it's screams 'I'm not a Freelander 3, honest, I'm a Discovery therefore you shall pay £5k more for me' wink

grand cherokee

2,432 posts

198 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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I like it and the colour really suits the car

badges? - simply debadge the car if it really bothers you

Uk dealer staff are getting demo's etc starting next week

grand cherokee

2,432 posts

198 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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yellowbentines said:
Looks too 'soft' and girly for me, a Land Rover should look chunky IMO.

And the DISCOVERY decals/badging is too try hard, it's screams 'I'm not a Freelander 3, honest, I'm a Discovery therefore you shall pay £5k more for me' wink
thankfully your not on the design team - lol

at the moment LR products cannot keep up with demand - they sell themselves

I know as I'm looking to buy at 2013 L405 and if you don't buy quickly you loose out - demand far outstrips supply esp for the 4.4 v8

foliedouce

3,067 posts

230 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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Not a fan of this design at all

I also think that the lights will devalue / dilute the Range Rover range.



grand cherokee

2,432 posts

198 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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foliedouce said:
Not a fan of this design at all

I also think that the lights will devalue / dilute the Range Rover range.
one could reasonably argue that the Range Rover 'brand' was devalued with the Sport but even more so with the Evoque?

but not so in the real world as I said about my difficulty sourcing an L405

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

223 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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I think what Land Rover should have done is keep churning out products designed 40 years ago, it would keep the die hard fans happy......... until they went bust at least.


Land Rover have got this nailed, I am not a massive fan of the Evoque, too flash for me, but I still appreciate it is a very good looking car that didn't look far off the prototype and I doff my cap for a marque to have the balls to produce something like that.
And the sales figures show that many people do love the styling.

Good on 'em I say.

foliedouce

3,067 posts

230 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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grand cherokee said:
one could reasonably argue that the Range Rover 'brand' was devalued with the Sport but even more so with the Evoque?

but not so in the real world as I said about my difficulty sourcing an L405
I hear you and don't completely disagree (despite the Mrs having an Evoque, which incidentally is a good car) but traditionally the ranges have had different styles.

You can see that the FFRR, new RRS & Evoque are all related

Then you had the Disco - different design / proposition, same with the Freelander and then the Defender

The Defender is no more, what's next, Freelander's and Discovery's having this front light configuration?

I liked being able to chose different type of vehicle with different design styles, I think this is morphing the them.



grand cherokee

2,432 posts

198 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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gizlaroc said:
I think what Land Rover should have done is keep churning out products designed 40 years ago, it would keep the die hard fans happy......... until they went bust at least.


Land Rover have got this nailed, I am not a massive fan of the Evoque, too flash for me, but I still appreciate it is a very good looking car that didn't look far off the prototype and I doff my cap for a marque to have the balls to produce something like that.
And the sales figures show that many people do love the styling.

Good on 'em I say.
you have summed it up - sales prove that they have got it right

I was a die hard L322 fan UNTIL I drove the L405 - chalk and cheese is an understatement

grand cherokee

2,432 posts

198 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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foliedouce said:
I hear you and don't completely disagree (despite the Mrs having an Evoque, which incidentally is a good car) but traditionally the ranges have had different styles.

You can see that the FFRR, new RRS & Evoque are all related

Then you had the Disco - different design / proposition, same with the Freelander and then the Defender

The Defender is no more, what's next, Freelander's and Discovery's having this front light configuration?

I liked being able to chose different type of vehicle with different design styles, I think this is morphing the them.

you say the FFRR, new RRS and Evoque are 'related' - surely that's the point?

look at the classic Porsche 911 and the cars produced today?

yellowbentines

5,296 posts

206 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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grand cherokee said:
yellowbentines said:
Looks too 'soft' and girly for me, a Land Rover should look chunky IMO.

And the DISCOVERY decals/badging is too try hard, it's screams 'I'm not a Freelander 3, honest, I'm a Discovery therefore you shall pay £5k more for me' wink
thankfully your not on the design team - lol

at the moment LR products cannot keep up with demand - they sell themselves

I know as I'm looking to buy at 2013 L405 and if you don't buy quickly you loose out - demand far outstrips supply esp for the 4.4 v8
Indeed, I wouldnt know where to start designing a car, Id probably have just bluffed it and photocopied a design for a similar sized American SUV!

wink

foliedouce

3,067 posts

230 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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grand cherokee said:
you say the FFRR, new RRS and Evoque are 'related' - surely that's the point?

look at the classic Porsche 911 and the cars produced today?
Yes but I can see a clear difference between a 911, Boxster, Caymen, and Cayenne.

Do the variants of 911's look 'related'?, yes and so they should

Just a personal view, as others have said, the sales speak for themselves. I just really hope that they don't become a victim of their own success. I first got into LR 'products' in the late '80's when a friends Dad got what is now known as a 'Classic'. Wow, I was taken right there and then, just stunning. But in those days I also looked up to BMW & Audi (and Porsche for that matter). Today I wouldn't buy either of those 3 German cars, mass produced 'samey stuff' and TBH since her indoors has got an Evoque I'm seeing too many of them on the roads!



unrepentant

21,212 posts

255 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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foliedouce said:
Yes but I can see a clear difference between a 911, Boxster, Caymen, and Cayenne.
Really? I see a line up of Boxsters, Caymans and 911's and they all look pretty similar. The new Macan just looks like they took a Cayenne and shrunk it.

If you take a Disco Sport, Evoque, RR Sport and RR and actually look at them they are all very different and individual. They have a common "face" up to a point and that is deliberate as it is with every brand. When someone looks at any of them they are going to be unmistakeably Land Rovers, just as an Aston is unmistakeably an Aston, a Porsche a Porsche etc..

Aeroresh

1,429 posts

231 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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I dont get it why they're blurring the lines between range rover and land rover badged products with the styling. Land rovers should be chunky and utilitarian surely?...not just a poorer trimmed range rover.

Must say the pics above make it look very girly....aiming at women of a certain age who would maybe otherwise be driving a Honda CR-V or RAV?

Needs beefing up imo!