Does the Land Rover Discovery – a vehicle designed to put in the hard yards – cut it as an executive company car? Why we're running it: To see how well suited this luxury off-roader is to executive travel, alongside the usual Mercedes-Benz and BMW suspects Month 1 - Month 2 - Month 3 - Month 4 - Month 5 - Specs Life with a Land Rover Discovery: Month 5 Our Disco’s been emitting more smoke than a papal conclave - 28th March 2018 The Land Rover Discovery has an auxiliary fuelburning heater, which ignites on start-up at less than 5deg C to aid cold start and heat up the cabin quicker. It burns a small amount of diesel and normally you wouldn’t be aware it was running. You probably wouldn’t even know it was there. But I know it’s there, and I know when it is on. How? Because during a recent cold snap, the car began smoking like a laboratory beagle on start-up and didn’t stop for ten minutes. If you’re moving quickly, you’d not n...
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