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RICHARD PORTER

THE CURRENT LAND ROVER DISCOVERY IS ONE of those cars defined in the popular imagination by one thing: it has a wonky arse. Last summer I told a mate I’d borrowed one for a week away and his first response was, ‘Has it still got a wonky arse?’ Then, while I had it, I dropped in on another friend who approached it from the front with the words, ‘Oh wait, is this the one with the wonky arse?’

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