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mark the spark wrote:
me too gutted see LR just released latest sales figures disco sport selling well but the real obvious gap in the pr bull was the proper disco sales .... you know that model that was their best seller before they trashed it well guess what no mention ..
they could of at least admitted they screwed it up
The Disco was never their best seller, not by a long way. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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8th Apr 2019 2:58 pm
mark the spark
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definitely not now MY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
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8th Apr 2019 3:53 pm
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Is the Evoque the best seller?2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
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8th Apr 2019 4:12 pm
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It was at one point, then I think the DS had a spell at the top spot.23.5MY Defender 90 X-Dynamic SE D250 MHEV Pangea Green
8th Apr 2019 4:33 pm
jimbg
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The Discovery Sport is still the best seller.
8th Apr 2019 4:37 pm
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8th Apr 2019 4:45 pm
APL
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It’s obvious what JLR need to do if they want to improve sales figures.......
Drop the prices of the Discovery 5 by £10k across the range, then they’ll have less of a problem selling them.
I rarely see them even in France, and they are noticeably lacking in the UK every time I go there these days.
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Or make a D6 , have the body with the same shape as the D4 and improve all the traits
Simples
Ps, oh and a different engine plse JLR
8th Apr 2019 6:17 pm
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You sound like the Defender boys now. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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8th Apr 2019 6:33 pm
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Maybe it’s because I’m getting old
8th Apr 2019 6:39 pm
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The New Discovery is just that. A new Disco. It is not, was never meant to be and will never be a “D5” and therefore the direct replacement to the D4. LR has never called it the D5. So comparing sales figures is pointless. Apples and oranges etc.
The “New Defender” will be the spiritual “D5”. (Because the Defender is long dead in all but name).
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8th Apr 2019 6:42 pm
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I was just saying today, the d5 is by far my favourite LR to date and I’m loving it, cracking bit of kitMike
8th Apr 2019 9:51 pm
APL
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RRSTDV8 wrote:
The Disco was never their best seller, not by a long way.
I beg to differ. Certainly in the earlier days of the Discovery I seem to recall it was indeed their best seller and in fact was a life saver for the marque at the time....2016 Discovery 4 Commercial
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8th Apr 2019 10:29 pm
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stiff wrote:
The New Discovery is just that. A new Disco. It is not, was never meant to be and will never be a “D5” and therefore the direct replacement to the D4. LR has never called it the D5. So comparing sales figures is pointless. Apples and oranges etc.
The “New Defender” will be the spiritual “D5”. (Because the Defender is long dead in all but name).
(Just my opinion.... )
The only reason that they did that was because having a number after the name has a knock on affect on residuals. Look at the cars from the German marques especially, none of them are officially known by a mark number; BMW are a case in point - each has a near impenetrable “E” code, which only mean something to the geeky. LR have now followed this route and are known by a sequence of random numbers beginning with “L”.
The Discovery is a bit of an oddity in that customers are so used to it that we still call the last Discoveries “4’s”, while the funny one is inevitably called the “5”. Dealers do their best not to use these numbers, as they’re told, but they know that to be understood, they are sooner or later going to have to refer to it as a “5”.2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
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9th Apr 2019 5:31 am
Pollski
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APL wrote:
RRSTDV8 wrote:
The Disco was never their best seller, not by a long way.
I beg to differ. Certainly in the earlier days of the Discovery I seem to recall it was indeed their best seller and in fact was a life saver for the marque at the time....
The D4s still far exceeds the D5s meandering around the Sevenoaks area. Our school car park used to be filled with D4s. Now, as the D4s get exchanged, they seem to be being swapped out for Volvos, BMWs and Audis. We've got approx. 5 D5s at school. I thought we'd have many more by now. People want reliability, less trips to the dealers for software updates and not having to fill up the AdBlue all the time. They also want a good dealership that does what they say they will do.
We do seem to have an increase in Velars and Evoques. And now the new Evoque has morphed slightly into the Velar ... I'm assuming the DS will have a facelift soon.
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see LR just released latest sales figures disco sport selling well but the real obvious gap in the pr bull was the proper disco sales .... you know that model that was their best seller before they trashed it well guess what no mention ..
