Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
Posts: 6525
D2 to 5
long shot...has anybody currently got the full range...D2 to D5
10th Mar 2019 11:16 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Surely full range would include the daddy of them all the D1?
Thats if you can find one that has not rotted away
11th Mar 2019 5:03 am
al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10352
not currently but I have had the whole range starting from a K 1992 plate 200TDI 3 door through every model, now on D5
Do I get a medal?
AlVolvo XC90 B5 Plus Dark
Gone - MY18 D5 HSE - Corris on 22's with Black Pack
Now gone - MY16 D4 SE Tech, Loire Blue, Almond Leather, Privacy, plus some other goodies.
Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
Older - D3 TDV6 XS Auto - Lugano Teal with Almond Leather, 20" Stormers, Shiny Tailpipes, DVD/TV - and obligatory D3 sticker
Ancient - D3 TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony, 20" Stormers, satnav & DVD
11th Mar 2019 7:52 am
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8135
I'm with Al, had them all from earliest reg D1 to latest D5 as company cars with a few D2 and D3's as private owned also
I remember back in the day Disco 1 being very popular on the MCP, or so I heard In Spain - 2018 F Pace - Down and out's Velar
In UK - Dare not say on this Forum
Gone - Lots of Lode Lane vehicles.
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11th Mar 2019 10:51 am
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8135
I had one as a management car 'because I could', it was 'the' car to have if you could get one. Really poor choice for me in reality as I was 'commuting' from Sutton Coldfield to Cowley every day at the time (a few months short of the M40 being open so a 200 mile x-country route via Stratford and the Cotswolds ) and real world consumption was about 22mpg and it hadn't the ability to get past old men in hats driving Allegro's or caravans on the country roads........
However, it was absolutely brilliant, a real "world-changer" vehicle for me, it was a 'G-WAC' plated vehicle (but not one of the official launch/press vehicles) and was a nice metallic blue with the 'compass' graphics down the side and the removable canvas bag that unzipped off the centre console. It had no central locking and windy-up windows but it stopped people in their tracks and had a crowd round it whenever parked up
11th Mar 2019 11:09 am
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23824
Wasn’t the canvas bag designed by T.Conran?2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
11th Mar 2019 11:14 am
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8135
Yep, probably rarer than a rust free chassis now I expect
11th Mar 2019 11:15 am
DG Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50978
We used to have a D1 pool car back in my Welsh Water days ...it was like driving a boat My D2 with ACE suspension was sportscarlike in comparison 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
11th Mar 2019 12:33 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6753
I wouldn’t mind driving a nice boat like Eclipse...
11th Mar 2019 1:01 pm
Dusty
Member Since: 23 Sep 2013
Location: London
Posts: 1022
Had a 1,2,3 and currently have a 4.
Unless a D6 arrives in the next few years think I might have to jump ship.
As good as a D5 might be it’s just not to my taste
Of course a new Defender might fill that gap.Discovery 4 HSE
SDV6
2015
11th Mar 2019 1:47 pm
Oswiperus D3 Decade
Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Posts: 1599
I currently have 2,3 & 4, a mate of mine has my old D1 and another mate has my old D3.
The D1 & D2 both belonged to my late father before me.Stu
2016 D4 Landmark current
2022 Defender D300 SE Gone
D4 2014 XS Commercial - Gone
D4 2016 hse lux montalcino red - Gone
D3 2005 se java black - current
D3 2005 base manual - gone
D2 1999 TD5 E white - current
11th Mar 2019 2:32 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Anyone ever driven a D1 200 auto
11th Mar 2019 3:25 pm
adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Home and Happy
Posts: 6917
What about the (short lived) D1 or D2 (not sure which one) with the K series 2.0L engine from Rover? - anybody have one?Now Golf GTI PP, 7 speed DSG.
Ex D3 and D4
11th Mar 2019 3:41 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8135
I had the 2.0 litre petrol one, five door by then. It was the R800 2.0 16v engine shoved into a Disco' as a tax-break car. It was, beyond doubt, the worst company car I have ever had. They could hardly give them away, let alone sell them. They were officially available for about five years but were single figure sales after about the first 18 months, mostly to Italy...
It actually sounded like a V8 with a nice 'burble' to it but it couldn't pull the skin off a rice-pudding, a slight incline would see a cruising speed slowly decline until, foot to the floor, it would be struggling to maintain 40mph top whack. I seriously doubted I would make it up 'Telegraph Hill' on the A380 once and even cars towing were overtaking me
Power was around 135bhp and the official 0-60 time was around 14.5 seconds but I really doubt it actually did that, struggling to get to 60 sometimes Torque was non-existent in a car-derived engine not designed for the application. Real world fuel economy was low to middling teens, the 3.9 V8 would do more than that.
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) and real world consumption was about 22mpg and it hadn't the ability to get past old men in hats driving Allegro's or caravans on the country roads........
