The CycleChat Large SUV Owners Club thread

[Drago]

The TD5 was developed from the crude but incredibly robust Rover L series.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

That's quite a different engine!

Spoiler

2.5 DuraTec.....

View: https://youtu.be/7rDLArPsd2I?si=U7yhfTOGcET9Txy4


https://www.greenwoodautomotive.co.uk/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Glorious!
A wonderful colour choice too

Personally, a 5.0 is a bit much for me, I can see that as a 300Tdi manual, or a Td5 conversion
It corners well, on those lowered/'road' springs (as seen at about 21:05)


View: https://youtu.be/MjjuOntRs2w?si=JFuyfOW-BqW5p7GL

 

[Gunk]

I was at the British Motor Museum yesterday and above the Jaguar hall in the overflow collection tucked at the back was this 3 door Discovery , the very first off the line. It’s done a couple of thousand miles and is still used occasionally for publicity and shows.

 

[Drago]

Ah, the original Conran designed interior. Mine was a later model where it had been toned down a bit.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I was at the British Motor Museum yesterday and above the Jaguar hall in the overflow collection tucked at the back was this 3 door Discovery , the very first off the line. It’s done a couple of thousand miles and is still used occasionally for publicity and shows.

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That's a pre-production model, as it didn't go on sale until 1989, on a 'G'

Ah, the original Conran designed interior. Mine was a later model where it had been toned down a bit.

The soft-bag' is missing (a precurser of a 'man-bag') as the cubby box wasn't there on the early 200Tdi models
The 300Tdi/'facelift'/Range-Rover dash, came about in 1994 (& a change of gearbox to the R380)

My Discovery was a 1998 model, a '50th Anniversary', in that colour-changing paint (Tdi/manual)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Some Discovery history

https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and-prototypes/land-rover-project-jay/

 

[Gunk]

Time has been kind to the first generation Discovery, they now look better than ever, especially 3 door with steel wheels. I was pretty ambivalent to them when they came out (I was driving a Golf GTi 16V back then) but now I’m really drawn to them. Very few good original examples have survived

 

[Gunk]

 

[Jameshow]

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111bhp!!🤣😳

 

[Gunk]

111bhp!!🤣😳

Skin and rice pudding comes to mind!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Time has been kind to the first generation Discovery, they now look better than ever, especially 3 door with steel wheels.

Very few good original examples have survived

They look even better on the (70-95) Range-Rover ‘Rostyles’!
I’ve seen a couple on them


‘Langley Farm 4x4 Show’ 2007
Not far from jct 38 & 39/M1

 

[Drago]

They look better still as a Strange Rover conversion.

 

[Gunk]

They look even better on the (70-95) Range-Rover ‘Rostyles’!

Definitely not

 

[Gunk]

They look better still as a Strange Rover conversion.

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Quite like it