Disco vs Rangie off-road ability

[Dick Seaman]

Straight off the shelf, no modifications, is there any difference between a new Discovery and a new Range Rover when it comes to off-road ability?

Cheers

[RedLeicester]

There was a round up of LR's in LRO Magazine a year or so ago, so granted it covered the Disco3, but there's not a great deal of changes with the D4. In that, the Rangie was king out of the two, principally because it's so much lighter than the Disco - the Disco probably had the ultimate edge in capability, but was held back on slippy stuff or steeper inclines by weighing as much as the moon.

Just wot they said, I don't do enough hardcore offroading to know - our L322 Rangie was more than capable of doing all the fields and tracks we asked it to, and our current D3 is the same. Oddly though if anything I'd have said the D3 had the edge in the recent snow - but then our L322 was a 2005 so didn't have the Terrain Response system which is so excellent in the D3 and now appears in the Rangie.

[RedLeicester]

Here we go - http://www.youtube.com/user/LandRoverOwner#p/u/22/...

[Dick Seaman]

That's great, cheers.

[300bhp/ton]

I suppose the qeustion is, would you ever take either vehicle to the extreme? And if you were to do such extreme off roading why not use something more suitable.

[RedLeicester]

300bhp/ton said:

I suppose the qeustion is, would you ever take either vehicle to the extreme? And if you were to do such extreme off roading why not use something more suitable.

All very good points!