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I'm going on another 2500 mile round trip in my Discovery 5 sometime this month. Since the new Defender will replace this truck next year I certainly don't want anything much less comfortable and competent at this type of road trip than the Discovery. I do need the ability to tow a trailer and...

I'm somewhat interested but since I bought a Garmin Monterra a few weeks before Garmin decided to dump it I'm feeling a little snakebit by Garmin. I've owned a bunch of Garmin stuff and they don't seem to have any consideration for loyal customers. I'll watch the reviews carefully before...

1966 with the 2.25L diesel. I've owned it since 1978. It has somewhere over 400K miles on it.

Took the transmission out of my old 109 to start the process of getting it back on the road again.

I use this step stool from Harbor freight its got a big enough platform to let you move a little and that helps keep you from stepping off the edge when you are pulling on a wrench. Its tall enough to sit on comfortably when working on something low...

At one of our club meetings years ago ..... Our tradition is new guys that show up to the meetings stand up and tell the crowd what sort of Land Rover they own. After three other new guys had stated they had some sort of Discovery the final one for the evening stood up and said: "I have a REAL...

Driving my Defender makes me happy... Driving my Series trucks makes me happy... Driving the new Miata makes me happy ... Driving the Discovery 5 makes me happy... Driving Porsches makes me happy... Driving a boring piece of crap car makes me unhappy, I'll take fun over boring any day, even if I...

245/75 mud terrain KO2's work great. Cooper's worked good but wore out more quickly than the BFGs on my D90

The LR4 had a diesel option... Just not here in 'Merica

Dieselranger, that was my thought the first time I popped the hood on my diesel D5, look at all of the space in front of the engine. It was obviously designed to accommodate an inline six. Here in Georgia diesel is running about 10 cents a gallon less than premium fuel. I'm averaging over 400...

Since I currently own three diesels and one petrol Land Rovers I'm pretty familiar with the difference. After owning 19 Land Rovers over the last 47 years you might say that I have some knowledge of the brand. Even though the six cylinder Ingenium diesel has not been introduced yet, sources have...

And from the SAE... https://www.sae.org/news/2019/04/new-jlr-e-supercharged-i-6-engine and from an older article: This could be the last year to score a Jaguar with the carmaker's 3.0-liter supercharged V6. Autocar reports that Jaguar deep-sixed the the XE S and XF S in the UK due to poor...

I was told the 3 liter Ingenium diesel 6 would be available.

All this whining about the new Defender... Coil springs versus air bags - what's wrong with good old leaf springs, drum brakes and no synchros in first and second gears?

America is not Europe, we have millions of diesel trucks on the roads here and distances between major population centers that boggle the minds of European visitors. We should be embracing diesels much more than we do. If not for the American fascination with 700 HP pony cars that we absolutely...

Not what I've heard unless that has changed VERY recently - the Ingenium 6 diesel is what I'm looking forward to buying. From what I've read there are three performance levels for the diesel with the lowest horsepower one going in the Defender (around 350 HP?) an upgraded 375? horse version for...

The SVX version of the Discovery 5 had some strengthened and upgraded front suspension components that were said to be the Defender units in prototype form. Maybe that's what is going on here.

I told Scott to pass on someone I used to use for sewing stuff for Lockheed. Give Joe Lattanzi at Estex Manufacturing in Fairburn a call. Joe is a Georgia Tech graduate and Estex is a sewing plant south of 285 of I-85 that sews a bunch of stuff for the airline industry. Tents may be a little out...

The CROC Uwharrie Safari is the last weekend in April.

This was back in 2006 up at Tellico. We had run up a dead end trail to the top of a nearby mountain - about 8 trucks in a convoy. While we were up on top of the hill fooling around the tree fell across the road with all of us on the wrong side of the tree. When I came around a corner and saw...