Car  |  January 2017
NEW DISCO
Whether it likes it or not, Land Rover is in the business of building icons.
The wait for its re-interpretation of Defender has been long, uncomfortable and peppered with unconvincing concepts and the purgatory isn’t over
yet. By contrast the L405 fourth-generation Range Rover left no one in any
doubt as to modern Land Rover’s ability to both understand its cars and to comprehensively yet sensitively evolve them. And now there’s a new Land Rover Discovery. Discoverys three and four were accidental icons, born of necessity, thrust onto the frontline of some of the toughest theatres of war in which a car can be expected to serve, messy livestock transportation mainly, human and otherwise and since celebrated for their combination of rugged good looks, space, family versatility and work-ready grit.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Car January 2017.