Discovery’s big squeeze
IT isn’t often Land Rover gets it wrong. Since 1948 there have been very few failures. Even models with widely-reported problems, like the P38 Range Rover (reliability) and Discovery 3 (electrics), still sold well. But the latest incarnation of the Discovery has proved the exception. The model that saved Land Rover from going under in 1989 is now the family flop.
The original Discovery was created in the 1980s to plug the gap between the Range Rover, which was heading ever further upmarket, and the
