Re:Land Rover's new wheels-eye-view feature
by wil421 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:33PM
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That's not the case. Range Rovers come in Range Rover base, Sport, Velar (not sure what this one is), and the Evoque. Land Rover also sells the Discovery and Discovery Sport which took the spot of the LR4.[1]
Here's the link the Land Rover's website. Click on Vehicles and you will see there is clearly a difference between Range Rover and Discovery. They are also coming out with a new Defender in 2020.
Edit: Wikipedia cleared up my confusion. The Discovery was called the LR3 and LR4 in North America for the past 15 years (starting 2004). I hate how companies do this, looking at you Toyota Hilux!
[1]https://www.landroverusa.com/vehicles/lr4-7-passenger-suv/in...
[2]https://www.landroverusa.com
[3]https://www.landroverusa.com/future-vehicles/defender/index....
That said, you can probably still buy ex-MOD Defenders, I see a few 2015 and onwards online that are clearly privately owned (repainted, on public roads, etc). And the Defender is the historical Land Rover vehicle kept current.
It should be noted that Land Rover (the vehicle) started off with farmers buying ex-MOD Defenders post WW2, and the company (British Leyland - Rover) deciding to make the defender available as the Land Rover.