Im on longisland NY and it seems like i dont see as many Discos as i used to.I guess they are slowly returning to the earth.
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I notice that there are more in some places than others....round here it was a popular kid to college car for the smu money. so plenty of left overs. I see at least 1/2 a dozen or so a week. you salt belters are surely going to see less. travelling I notice some areas have larger numbers. I bet I saw 10-12 walking around Santa Fe, in one day. I was in montana for a couple of weeks and probably only saw 3, the whole time. I see quite a few in Chicago, every time I visit. Atlanta...a little less than here, but who knows....Atlanta is the most tow happy place I have ever visited....1/2 the people on the marta trains are probably going to get their disco out of pound. lots in the LA area too.

 

Not counting mine, I see 2 or 3 regularly in my neighborhood of East Elmhurst/ Jackson Heights in Queens.

All the rest I see are queued for service at British Auto Works.

 

I still see a few in Chicago. One of them stole my cup holder inserts. Left my vehicle unlocked for two hours and they got em. Must live near me.

 

It's the natural course of events.

 

I think as they get older and cheaper, people who have no idea what they're getting in to are buying them. I see at least 3-6 a day here in Seattle.

 

An abundance of D90's, D110's, D1's, D2's, D3 & 4's plus the whole gambit of RR's in the UK. In europe, France, Germany and Spain there are an abundance of all of those. I even saw a mint condition RR Classic a few days ago ..................... hmmm, shame it was white .............. so common is white here it's like yesterdays silver (says he with a silver/grey RRS )

I was reading a serious article recently which stated the D1 and particularly the D2 was the most advanced offroad 4x4 of it's era with all the comforts and gizmos of a far later truck. Maybe a matter of opinion but it took some beating in it's time but it'll never be a dinosaur as long as offroaders want and use them.

 

I think you'll be seeing fewer and fewer of them on the road in states with safety inspections that examine the chassis. That's especially the case in areas where public works have to use salt to clear snow covered roads. I have six DII's here for parting right now and each one has a hole or worse somewhere on the chassis. The DII I was using this past summer was so bad that driving down my driveway the left bumper mount broke off. The left side of the bumper sagged down about 8 inches. It was so bad there was nothing left of the original.

It's disgraceful, the way these relatively new trucks are disintegrating. I guess the only saving grace for Land Rover, the corporation, is that they sold too few of them to make it worthwhile for lawyers to pursue a class action suit against them.

 

The Discovery has plummeted in price and the selection, while becoming more diverse, has almost unilaterally become worse. While there was a G4 for sale on the Big Island, most of the rest are run of the mill, with issues.

The more disturbing trend is that when I bought my D1, there were about a half dozen for sale... in the past 6 months not a single one.