You have to give the turn signal two good clicks before you start switching lanes. I had no emergency braking for most of my stint, and it beeps and notifies the driver every two seconds. If you get a few chunks of ice over the windshield or bumper sensors, everything goes haywire. The list of tech on this car is impressive - or would be if it always worked properly. It keeps the groceries corralled, though I was scared to try sitting on it like a truck tailgate, didn't want to break it. I do like the flip-down/foldout tailgate. I was in a Jag XF sedan afterward, and though everything looked the same, the controls worked better. It’s also hard to jab at while driving, takes a long time to connect to my iPhone via Bluetooth, then goes back to the AM band when you start the car. The infotainment looks good, but it’s slow to react to all inputs. I always considered the LR/Disco a big car, at least midsize-to-big, so what gives? It looks big, feels big when driving the rear seats even slide fore and aft - still, not enough room.Įlsewhere inside, I appreciated the heated seats and steering wheel on these freezing days, but missed not having remote start, a feature my wife’s Ford Escape has. Granted, the baby seat is longer, front to back, than the toddler seat, but I’m only 5-foot-10. This time, with the toddler seat behind the passenger, I put the new baby seat behind me, the driver, and had to move and lean my seat up a few inches. Last time around, I had the three-row, and lovely, Mazda CX-9 to take junior number one home, which left plenty of space for mom in the passenger seat. So, there’s a new "junior" road test editor junior in the family, my second, and I was pumped to have the Disco to bring him home from the hospital. And I was surprised at how it crashed over our admittingly big Detroit potholes with a loud kachunk resonating in the cabin. There’s a ton of head movement, side to side and back and forth. I didn’t quite feel that in my two weeks with the car, with a new baby and toddler in tow. The fifth-gen is the first unibody Discovery, meaning it’s supposed to handle less like a pickup truck. ![]() I saw a picture of a white one though, and that looks really nice. A woman did stop me in a parking lot to say she loved it, and my sister just said that she likes weird-colored cars, too, because they’re easy to find in a lot filled with faceless SUVs. I worked at the local screen printing place while in high school, but I digress. I also know what Columbia blue and harvest gold are, as well as the differences between flock and felt. Ours is in this weird shade of burnt sienna - and yes I know what burnt sienna is. I attended the pre-prelaunch of this car at the New York auto show a few years back and liked the looks from the start. ![]() But, with this latest redesign of the Discovery for the fifth generation, I was all in. If I was going to pick a Land Rover, money being no object, it would have been one of those. In those days, the Range Rover looked better and people considered it cool. ![]() I was never a huge fan of the LR-branded Discovery SUVs that have been running around the States since the mid-90s.
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