Land Rover Monthly

The last real Landy?

BACK in late 2016, when we were still struggling to get our heads around Gerry McGovern’s ‘genius’ design of the Discovery 5 (yes, I am being sarcastic here), I idly wondered in these pages whether the Discovery 3 might come to be regarded as the last real Land Rover, as you and I would understand it. And I think I’ve just bought the perfect example to prove that hypothesis.

The colour in itself is quite unusual – Maya Gold – but what makes this particular Discovery exceptional is what it doesn’t have rather than what it does. The specification is as basic as you

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