YouTube - 20 Years of Land Rover Discovery

 

Definitely a favorite of mine.

 

Actually I find the video very sad. The evolution of a simple, tough, utilitarian 4x4 sport-ute into a mall-crawling, over-electroniced, pampered, gizmo-ridden luxo-ute. The RR is just the same. Only the Defender has remained true to it's roots and we don't get it now and never will again in the US of A. My desire to own a new LR is zero. The brand is dead in my eyes. That video was a funeral dirge but then I'm just an old fart lost in a gizmo-ridden world.

 

New or old, with the Land Rover badge, the magic is still there. I don't care what you say.

While it's sad that 96% of the Discovery 3 and 4's on the road are mall crawling, you can't declare an entire nameplate dead because one side of the customer base is a bunch of yuppie retards. I'd own a D3 or D4 just as quick as I'd own a 1989 3door DI. Maybe that's just me.

 

I commend you on your LR loyalty. To me the nameplate evokes magic but the vehicles do not. While I'd like to drive and off road an LR3/LR4 for a few days to check it out I would never buy/own one even if I had the money which I don't. I'd buy a new 4 door Rubicon but I don't have the money for one of those either. I just like simple and don't need or want luxurious/pampered accommodations. I only own a 4x4 for one purpose and that is to explore off road. If I didn't explore then a simple good MPG car is all I would own.