Those who find the entire Land/Range Rover range confusing, raise your hands. Now all of you can pick up your newspapers again.
Land Rovers are the functional ones, while Range Rovers are the posh ones. What’s common between the two is their ability to climb the side of the Burj Al Arab on their own power. The confusion is obviously caused by their appearance — they all look the same. What’s the point then, if you pay over a crore of rupees for a Range Rover and people think it’s the Rs 34-lakh Freelander 2? How do you distinguish between all these Range Rovers and Land Rovers? Simple, look at their behinds — the Freelander 2 hatch slopes slightly, it slopes gently on the Range Rover Sport and it does not slope that much in the Range Rover. Okay, I’m kidding. But you get the drift.
Among all these sports utility vehicles (SUVs), the Discovery 4 is the easiest to identify. It’s got a hatch door that’s as straight as a martinet in the British Army and a stepped roofline that’s been its design hallmark across generations. The one that you see on this page is the latest iteration, the fourth one, launched in 2009. It was not all-new then, however — the Discovery 3 went through a comprehensive revamp to become the fourth-generation vehicle. Why am I giving you all these complicated explanations?
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