Discovery 5

[ERover82]

First official image

 

[stu454]

That's a damned-fine looking Kia.

 

[Tugela]

That's a damned-fine looking Kia.

Perhaps someone with more advanced PhotoShop skills than I have could insert the hoody-wearing, dancing hamsters of the Kia Soul commercials into this picture. These guys:

 

[stu454]

They're already there; if only in spirit.

Thanks to this self-described "flower arranger".

 

[rovercanus]

Considering who owns Land Rover now, we're lucky it's not a AutoRickshaw.

 

[jhmover]

Ugh.

 

[squirt]

What a cute car.

 

[Drillbit]

This has all happened before This will all happen again

 

[SCSL]

I wonder what the strategy is with removing the "Land Rover" lettering from the hood and replacing it with "Diiscovery". And are they melding the "Discovery Sport" and "LR#" lines?

 

[jymmiejamz]

I wonder what the strategy is with removing the "Land Rover" lettering from the hood and replacing it with "Diiscovery". And are they melding the "Discovery Sport" and "LR#" lines?

Yes. The new Discovery is just called the Discovery and the Discovery Sport is the Freelander/LR2 replacement. Then there is the Range Rover line that includes the full size Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, and Range Rover Evoque. There will also be a Defender line in the future.

 

[Devildog01]

It looks like what would happen if a pile of dog shit could vomit.

 

[Blue]

I'll bet it drives like a dream compared to my 2004.

 

[number9]

 

[rovercanus]

It looks like a storm trooper!

 

[emmodg]

It looks like a storm trooper!

That's EXACTLY what I thought!

 

[emmodg]

I wonder what the strategy is with removing the "Land Rover" lettering from the hood and replacing it with "Diiscovery". And are they melding the "Discovery Sport" and "LR#" lines?

I'm willing to bet any amount it wasn't a "strategy" at all vis a vie the hood badge. I bet it was a design decision. The design team wanted any lettering to be centered between the two hood lines and above and "within" the grill detail below it.

 

[discostew]

This has all happened before This will all happen again

Yep. Nobody likes anything new till they see for themselves it's better.

 

[ERover82]

Yep. Nobody likes anything new till they see for themselves it's better.

They're better, but in an increasingly narrow set of offroad conditions. A D1 still has better better ground clearance and field repair-ability than any successor.

 

[Tugela]

A D1 still has better better ground clearance and field repair-ability than any successor.

True, however the same could be said of a Series truck relative to the D1 in terms of field serviceability.

 

[ERover82]

Like I've suggested before, the new Discovery is closer to a Range Rover successor, the new Range Rover a ultra-luxury competitor, and the coming Defender a Discovery successor with pickup/wheelbase variants. It's the classic Defender/Series line that will be left behind.

The new Defender will likely deliver both the modern refinement that makes new Rovers great, and relative simplicity and offroad capability the old ones did.