Land Rover Discovery series

Being so close to the M25 gives easy access to major routes and our story today starts at the M25 Swanley Interchange.

It was Sunday, May 19, 1996, just after 1pm, when 52-year-old career criminal Kenneth Noy was annoyed that a small red van cut into the lane ahead of his Land Rover Discovery.

Noy had a track record of violence, including stabbing police officer John Fordham to death in 1985.

Noy at the time of the stabbing was suspected of melting down and recycling the gold stolen in the Brink's Map bullion robbery in 1983, and John was one of the detectives watching his house and grounds.

This was prior to the 200 TDI, which it later got after a head gasket failure and later on.

In the year 2000, my mom got a Discovery 1 with a 300 TDI.

That was the vehicle that I learned to drive in, the 300 TDI Discovery.

It's a good way to start.

Yeah.

And I found, as an 18, 19 year old, that they were not that cool back then.

Oh no! All of the Land Rover people, they had Defenders or they had a...

I think LR3, the Discovery 3, if you want to be the cool guy, that's where you need to go.

And I think even if you think that that's not going to be affected by water, you're always better to be safe than sorry.

I've had engineers at Land Rover because, of course, a four-wheel drive manufacturer like Land Rover, I mean, I've driven a regular diesel Land Rover Discovery for argument's sake.

I've driven that through water that's up to the top of the doors.

under very controlled conditions in a test process.

past, when I say in the past, I'm talking about before COVID.

If you want a boxy SUV, you need to go, you know, Land Rover Defender, even the Land Rover Discovery, the Range Rover Evoke a little bit, all the Range Rovers, of course, Mercedes G-Wagon.

And then if you're on a budget, you go down to a Suzuki Jimny, but that was a three-door.

The five-door had not come out yet.

You used to learn in a, in a Defender, didn't you?

Uh, a Land Rover Discovery, uh-

Oh, yep

... which my dad still has, and I-

... just texted my mom and said...

My parents, they've held on.

My dad's has done, with Land Rover Discovery, over 400K, and my-

Yeah, brilliant

I know.

And we also touched last month on the Discovery because there's a new man heading up the Discovery.

Yep.

And apparently that was where else they went off to look at the new

Discovery.

They have three places to go to, I believe, on their jollies.

Yeah, that was the fan end.

four by fours.