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17th Apr 2017 9:03 am
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I was sat behind a D5 today and considered the number plate. What occurred to me was that it's the shape of the cut out for the number plate that jars. If this was a simple rectangle with number plate on one side, LR badge on the other it might be more balanced.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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20th Apr 2017 8:31 pm
Bullova06
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To my logic
If you look at a Disco Sport & a Disco 5 from a distance there is very little other than the size to tell them apart. Maybe the offset plate is the unique detail, the style nod to the past.
The Disco 3 rear end carried over to Disco 4 had reason, it was the only way a number could be done with the split tailgate.
Prior to that the hinged door.
20th Apr 2017 9:12 pm
d-9
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The l322, p38 and classic Range Rovers have a split tailgate without a wonky plate... fairly sure it's just an attempt at a styling nod to the d1/d22008 TDV8 Sport HSE
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20th Apr 2017 9:34 pm
Red Merle
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Although both of those Range Rovers had the, still desirable, but less practical symmetrical split tailgate.
The asymmetric split tailgate works really well with an offset plate.
Now that the D5 has a simple and conventional, plastic, estate car tailgate, isn't the offset plate just a misleading bit of over ornate fakery (whether the plate itself is oblong or square)?
21st Apr 2017 1:00 am
J77
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Who would've thought a number plate would cause so much discussion. It's a design feature, has no reason, serves no purpose. The tailgate works well along with the plank.23.5MY Defender 90 X-Dynamic SE D250 MHEV Pangea Green
21st Apr 2017 6:40 am
Fitzy73
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I take your point, but feel it is very important as for many of us it is one of the reasons why we feel the rear end is so ugly/poorly designed and that perhaps simple changes could make a big difference.Andy
21st Apr 2017 6:44 am
Red Merle
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We shall just have to agree that it "has no reason and serves no purpose"
21st Apr 2017 6:58 am
Geoff at Drym
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Came up behind my first 'on the road' sighting of a D5. IMO the number plate is the only way to distinguish a D5 from all the other makes of SUV. And no, I'm still not impressed!! But that's just me innit 2007 Disco3 2.7 tdv6 SE
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I have to say, working in Coventry I get to see quite a few of the prototype and pre-production cars from Jag and LR driving about and I must say the back of the D5 just looks.....well.... odd.....somehow unfinished.....
The D1, D2, D3 and D4 all have an offset rear plate and that plate is generally square, I think they should have continued with that design line.
But as many have said, you don't drive a car from the outside, and I cant really talk as my D3 is bright Orange!!G4OC Secretary
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21st Apr 2017 10:47 am
Windowlicker
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To me the obvious issue is that there is a rectangle plate in a none rectangular recess , if the bottom right corner of the plate were cut at the same angle of the recess , say 45 deg or whatever it is , it would look less offensive.
Like the old rover 75 and jag S type ( I think it was ) , they used to have a specific reg plate pattern to match the aperture they were fitted into.
Were I ever to own one I would just cut the plate to suit , and minimise how it looks.Procrastination is the thief of time!!
21st Apr 2017 11:26 am
Hairy Dan
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As an all rounder, it’s an absolutely tremendous piece of machinery and without doubt the most complete and desirable family car on sale today. Yet I wouldn’t buy one and neither should you because it has a needlessly offset rear number plate.
Well I can live with the number plate!!
22nd Apr 2017 1:42 pm
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It’s not that the number plate is simply ugly… it’s what it represents about the design teams priorities. Forget ‘form follows function’ - we’ve now got ‘style substitutes suitability’.
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22nd Apr 2017 5:15 pm
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