Discovery
The cars : Land Rover Discovery
Expanding the portfolio THE story of the Land Rover Discovery actually begins at the dawn of the 1980s, and company reshuffles that saw Land Rover separated from the car making divisions of BL, Austin-Rover and Jaguar. The company’s success in producing off-road vehicles had endured almost criminal neglect during the 1970s – a situation that [...]
July 6, 2011
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News : Discovery 4 goes all-black
Keith Adams The Land Rover Discovery 4 is continuing its slow move upmarket with the arrival of further high-end model derivatives. The HSE becomes available exclusively to the UK for the 2013 model year. It’s based upon the 3.0-litre 252bhp LR-SDV6 HSE, but the HSE Luxury derivative adds much needed comfort features, such as the [...]
October 1, 2012
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Blog : Reunited with the Beijing Disco V8
Words: Keith Adams Photography: Richard Streeton Regular readers will be more than familiar with the Land Rover Journey of Discovery. The 10,000-plus epic journey that saw the millionth Discovery of the line (along with three others) drive from Gaydon to Beijng, and in the process, it raised £1million for the International Federation of Red Cross and [...]
September 14, 2012
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Buy parts with AROnline and Rimmer Bros
KEITH ADAMS Rimmer Bros sponsored AROnline‘s Polish SD1 restoration… Buying parts for your Jaguar, Rover, Lands Rover, Triumph or MG has never been easier through AROnline… HERE at AROnline, we receive a large numbers of emails from people all over the world looking for parts for their cars MGs, Rovers, Landies and all manner of [...]
August 20, 2012
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News : Journey of Discovery makes a million!
The Land Rover ‘Journey of Discovery’ has raised £1million for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Mark Cameron, Land Rover Global Brand Experience Director, presented the cheque to Mark Astarita (Director of Fundraising, British Red Cross) at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where Land Rover are celebrating the ‘Journey of [...]
June 29, 2012
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Concepts and protoypes : Land Rover Discovery
Project Jay was a vitally important programme for Land Rover – it was to create a intermediate model range that sat between the Range Rover and Defender, and fight the Mitsubishi Shogun and Isuzu Trooper in the market. Designing the car, which was so heavily based on the Range Rover was a difficult task. The [...]
June 18, 2012
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eBay Find of the Week : Discovery G_WAC
Keith Adams Press launch cars tend to be the holy grail of cult classic cars – they’re appreciated by those who really know their cars. And as such can sometimes get missed by the more general enthusiast audience when examples come up for sale. That’s probably not the case with Discovery G-WAC launch cars – [...]
June 7, 2012
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News : Millionth Discovery celebrated in style
Andrew Elphick Land Rover has announced it had constructed the millionth Discovery, 23 years after the launch of the original in 1989. Today it is the choice of those who find a Defender just too agricultural, and a Range Rover just a touch ostentatious. From the neat white lined aisles of Waitrose’s car parks, to [...]
March 2, 2012
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Car of the month : April 2008
When launched in 1989, the Discovery was seen as an important third way for the iconic manufacturer of the world’s best off-roaders… However, it was a risk for the company, and as hard as it is to imagine today, there were times when the future of Project Jay was questionable… Nearly 20 years on, it’s [...]
April 1, 2008
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