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300% snowpack in the San Juans. 150%+ elsewhere. Likely more snow in the high country this week. Front range got dumped on - we got a foot in Colorado Springs on Monday night, but today through Monday it will be warm and will melt out quickly. Expect very high stream flow through late June -...

I thought modern ECUs (and yes, the LR3 should qualify as having a "modern" ECU), the system will adjust timing and mixture on lower octane fuel to impede knock, so you would not notice pinging/knocking unless you have a problem with the ECU or fuel injectors. What you may notice is reduced...

Note the rock sliders also, and potentially some trail damage behind the front wheel? There's hope yet....

Nope, those are figures for all of Europe, not the UK alone. Oh, and it's classified in the "Large Premium SUV" segment because they retailed well above £ 40,000. There were a few "commercial" versions but those largely were dumped in favor of the Disco Commercial. Military and police...

Lucky8 has a hidden winch mount and rock sliders for the D5, they'll make them for the Defender as well.

And when were those vehicles sold? What model years? Because they've only sold a couple hundred per year in the UK over the last 15 years, and they are absolutely NOT farm trucks.

The Defender hasn't been a farm implement for over a generation. I don't know why people insist on this false narrative. C'mon people, even if you live in the US and haven't seen a modern Defender in over 20 years, the Googles are your friend. The new Defender will sell well for its target...

I did my homework before I bought the D5. I had almost two years waiting for my Touareg to be bought back. The rovers you have owned were of a different generation - they've fixed their problems. Complaints today revolve around infotainment, and even though mine is of the first production...

The reliability of my D5 is fantastic, and it goes places no JGC could ever go. The 2014 RRS even beat the Acura MDX and Audi Q7 in 3-year dependability - in its first year of a new generation. In fact, all the issues FCA has had with reliability have bled over into Jeep in the worst possible...

Back in my day (hitches belt onion) that meant flotation tires on 15" steelies.

Probably looking at 19" for an SE as standard, 20" on the HSE to follow the rest of Land Rover and take advantage of supply chain efficiencies. Hopefully they make an "offroad package" that puts 18's with higher profile tires on them. I will say, however, that the 275/55-20 AT's (31.9" outside...

Diesels are selling much better out west. My local dealer says they're selling a lot of Disco Td6's. A few people want Td6 RRS's but they are hard to find, I think most are probably orders, none listed on our lot. Diesel last week was $2.99/gal, about the same as premium and diesel pumps are...

Great, I explicitly mentioned a diesel and the replies I got were about petrol engines. In these applications I prefer diesel for the range, torque, and durability which no doubt you are familiar with as well. I don't doubt it's coming, but the road to certification in the US is long and...

I've got 55-series 20" AT's on my Disco and it does just fine. Can fit 18" too.

The inline-six Ingenium currently debuting is petrol, not diesel. "Petrol" is English for Gasoline. The new diesels have not been released or even previewed yet.

Not available anywhere so far. In the UK and Europe, the Ford/Pugeot variable-vane Td6 engine has been replaced with the twin-turbo SDV6 making about 300hp (still Ford developed, I believe), which based on the butt dyno measuring my 254 hp D5 would be about perfect, at least for the Disco. Td6...

Time will tell what price points they offer. So far it's all speculation.

The Rubicon tops out well north of $50K with the bits and bobs most want on it, and the Gladiator touches $60K, more with tax and title in many places. They're lifestyle vehicles, and that's fine. Interestingly, in 2013, FCA said the average household income of a Wrangler Rubicon buyer was...

The same thing that's wrong with an air-cooled, boxer engine hanging over the rear-driven wheels, five speed, open diff, and a manual choke - absolutely nothin'. It's a very pure driving experience for what it is, just like an old Porsche is on a winding road. But for many reasons, it's...

...And if we convert $32,000 in 1997 dollars (this was the base price, BTW, they on average went for about $45,000 plus tax and title) to 2019 dollars, we get $50,000. $45,000 in 1997 is about $71,000 today. So many of the people complaining that it's gone too far upmarket either are too young...