L19MUD Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 I think Steve G is probably right! I looked all week and a couple of times I thought I had spotted one and realised it was an Explorer Less ugly and I bet cheaper too Think I will stick with my Range Rover! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Not the Disco sport then? Central number plate as previous post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L19MUD Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Wasn't a Disco sport as it was too big for that. Will be back in a couple of weeks and continue looking I did see a lovey Classic LWB RR which looked like new with a 'Country ' badge on the back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbekko Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 20 hours ago, L19MUD said: I think Steve G is probably right! I looked all week and a couple of times I thought I had spotted one and realised it was an Explorer Less ugly and I bet cheaper too Think I will stick with my Range Rover! As ugly as the D5 is, it's nowhere as ugly as an Explorer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L19MUD Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 2 hours ago, elbekko said: As ugly as the D5 is, it's nowhere as ugly as an Explorer... Not sure I agree from the back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 Oooh, it's a D5 with a fixed tailgate! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotts90 Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Specsavers anyone? Door and window architecture all wrong regardless of the tailgate...yup I'm biased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=jon= Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 17/12/2017 at 2:37 PM, SteveG said: It was probably a Ford Explorer. I was in San Jose, California last week. One of my colleagues got an Uber - a 'Range Rover' turned up - with LR badges front and rear (replacing the oval Ford badges), Range Rover lettering on the bonnet edge and Vogue badging on the back.. It fooled my colleagues for a while, took them a while to twig it was actually a Ford Explorer rebadged! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Anderzander Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Caveated that I recognise that my taste is no more valid than anyone else’s - I’m really not keen on the whole Land Rover range now. For me, part of Land Rovers identity has been how aesthetics were secondary to function - making the most capable 4x4 vehicles seemed to be the soul of the company, and for very sound commercial reasons they have moved away from that. I like change and technology - for instance I’m interested in the whole Tesla thing despite still believing that the smell of 2-stroke would be my dream aftershave. I read a quote from Jerry McGovern where he said he’d got the internal structure changed - that Styling used to report to Engineering, and now its the other way around. That for me sums up the change - it literally is now style over substance. The heart of the company has changed and the new direction doesn’t resonate with me. It’s too strong to say I find it neither useful or beautiful, it would have use as a big family car - but the aesthetics I find so grim that I wouldn’t choose it. I’m not keen on the roof chop look, they seem to have lost their elegance, and maybe because of some of the customer demographic around here - they seem rather synonymous with ‘look - I’m rich’ - which interestingly is what JLR’s staff training said RR range is all about. There it’s off my chest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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