Although it sold a smattering of its classic Defender model here over the years, the vehicle that really launched the Land Rover brand?as distinct from Range Rover?in the United States was the Discovery, in the 1990s. While both the Discovery and the updated Discovery II quickly established themselves as the family SUVs most likely to complete an African safari, they earned an equally robust reputation as the SUVs most likely to suffer a catastrophic mechanical and/or electrical breakdown. So when a completely redesigned version launched in 2004, Land Rover stripped the ?Discovery? badges off the U.S.?bound model, selling it instead as the LR3; it spawned the revised LR4 five years later. With that vehicle now trundling toward the sunset, Land Rover is reverting to the ?Discovery? name for its successor, which arrives in mid-2017. READ MORE ??
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