Disco 4, Volvo XC90 or Skoda Kodiak

[Mark C]

‘Not that comfortable ‘? Agree it’s not quite Range Rover level but I did 600 odd miles in a day in mine in the summer travelling to Italy and got out at the end as fresh as a daisy, pretty good going as I have a long history of back problems. At an average of 85 on the autoroutes I was getting 30mpg.

 

[strawturner]

Oh well im actually taking this as good news, perhaps something is wrong with it. Its the SDV6 with the 8 speed gearbox. I actually really like the gearbox it always seems to be in the right place. When I picked it up I drove about 200miles home and the fuel consumption then was about much higher then I'm getting now, but my longest regular journey is about 10 miles, and more regularly Im doing 2 or 3 mile trips so that's probably the cause. As for the level of comfort, I guess im just comparing it to a car, clearly its far more comfortable then a defender. But for sure I wouldn't enjoy doing a 600 mile trip in it.

 

[Robt]

@strawturner is yours the TDV6 or SDV6. Both my 4's were the later SDV6 with the 255bhp and 8 speed. Wouldn't describe it as slow. 0-60 was around 8 seconds and fuel varied between 21-25mpg if towing and off road. General driving with no towing was 26-28mpg. Fuel tank isn't huge on them but usually got 400+ miles from a tank. Mine were both on General Grabbers which reduced mpg by about 1mpg.

Agree what he said!
always got 400 plus miles per tank and drove it very very hard!

 

[Robt]

Oh well im actually taking this as good news, perhaps something is wrong with it. Its the SDV6 with the 8 speed gearbox. I actually really like the gearbox it always seems to be in the right place. When I picked it up I drove about 200miles home and the fuel consumption then was about much higher then I'm getting now, but my longest regular journey is about 10 miles, and more regularly Im doing 2 or 3 mile trips so that's probably the cause. As for the level of comfort, I guess im just comparing it to a car, clearly its far more comfortable then a defender. But for sure I wouldn't enjoy doing a 600 mile trip in it.

You need electric seats not manual seats. I have on more than one occasion put two tanks of fuels so 600 plus miles in one day in it . Got out and felt normal

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Bought a D4 earlier this year to replace both my car (bmw 3 series) and my work vehicle (TD5 defender).. Both of which I still have as I'm not that sold on the disco. Its big slow heavy expensive bad on fuel and I don't actually think that comfortable. But I keep getting in and driving it. It needed a set of tyres when I bought it with 33,000 miles on it, I put some general grabbers on, and while I've never been stuck off road with it, there's no chance it will go where my defender would. Then when you compare it to the bmw as a car its no where near as refined, the little sat nav screen seems as if its pointing more towards the passenger then the driver. Ive not towed with it but fuel consumption seems to be around the 21mpg mark, the fuel tank must be tiny as this means I get about 275 miles per fill, far less then both the car and defender. Alas I guess compromises are exactly that.

As I said before I keep getting in and driving it, and would probably pick it over the bmw or defender now so its going to stay... Lets hope it doesn't blow up...

The D4 is definitely not slow...it’s very quick I’d say

 

[Bertram]

Oh well im actually taking this as good news, perhaps something is wrong with it. Its the SDV6 with the 8 speed gearbox. I actually really like the gearbox it always seems to be in the right place. When I picked it up I drove about 200miles home and the fuel consumption then was about much higher then I'm getting now, but my longest regular journey is about 10 miles, and more regularly Im doing 2 or 3 mile trips so that's probably the cause. As for the level of comfort, I guess im just comparing it to a car, clearly its far more comfortable then a defender. But for sure I wouldn't enjoy doing a 600 mile trip in it.

I think your problem might not be the D4 but actually the comparison to your bmw. I’ve recently done the same as you, bought a new double cab to replace both a 320d and a defender. And like you I haven’t sold either. Those cars are just incredibly competent, 45mpg all day long, quick, nice to drive, super comfortable. I like my new pick up but if I have to do a 200 mile trip there’s no way that I’d not take the 320. I tested a D4 and also found I was struggling to get over 25mpg driving carefully and whilst it was impressive, that consumption coupled with the dodgy reliability record put me off.