Discovery Rear Number plate WTF

Who the feck approved the New Discovery offset number plate??

Now, I know I'm a bit late to the party with this and it's probably been discussed but only saw it with my own eyes this week. It's awful, I was following one on the motorway and had to look away after a while cos it was making me feel ill, it can't be just my OCD. I can't find any official pics of the back (surprise surprise) but found this one:


I can see how it came about, it probably had it's own paragraph in the design proposal....

"....Offset Numberplate (TM) is a symbol of Land Rover history, it signifies purpose, preparation and ruggedishness, a reflection of previous times when a spare wheel meant independence and personal authority. Offset Numberplate (TM) indicates that you are a warrior, commanding the countryside, in charge of your own life and destiny. When you have Offset Numberplate (TM) it shows that you are different from the norm, blazing your own trail, the Offset (TM) way!...."

Now that's all well and good but someone needed to put a red pen through that and write

"..but it looks Sh!t?..."

They should’ve found a way to keep it square on the rear if it’s going to be offset. I’ve seen D3/D4’s like it and look just as sh*t

Designed by Gerry McGovern

There is a cure available
https://www.startech.de/en/products/land-rover-discovery-5-5-4/

Design meeting. LR HQ.

"Hey, Defenders are cool!"
Yeah, Defenders are reeeeal coool... (Puff puff)
"Y'know what's the coolest? Those funky li'l nummer plates, they's ice man"
Oh wow, (cough), I can see it now! This stuff is awesome..
"So, like, wouldn't an offset number plate, like, make anything real cool?"
Whoa dude, stoking idea, but no more Fenderererers man, where we gonna put it bro...? (Blows smoke out in a ring)
"How 'bout we do to all our vehicles coz, like, everyone wants to be, like, cool... right?"
Yeah man, bitchin' frosty man.. You want sum mora this Jerry?

Crikey, when an aftermarket company has to make a replacement body panel you know you've made some ugly ****e!

Looks really good with the centred plate, what were they thinking!

AdamD1 said:

Looks really good with the centred plate, what were they thinking!

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What happened is.....when they were photocopying the disco sport drawings on 120%, they slipped with the original and no one realised they had messed up the tailgate piccie.

So this is what they ended up with...simples really.

Cheers

Oooooooo! Everyone's worried about a little ol' number plate!! Oooooooo looks so nasty, doesn't it, Enid? And they call Freelanders gay? Fer gawd's sake, who gives a feck?

DevonGuy said:

Oooooooo! Everyone's worried about a little ol' number plate!! Oooooooo looks so nasty, doesn't it, Enid? And they call Freelanders gay? Fer gawd's sake, who gives a feck?

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I do, there’s no way I’d buy one (not that I can afford to) because it’s so ugly, I’d take my money (which I don’t and won’t ever have) and look at the competition. If Land Rover don’t want my money (that I haven’t got) then all they need to do is keep designing cars like this. Seriously they need to take account of people like me that can’t or won’t ever buy a new one of their cars otherwise they’re just going to lose a customer(that they’ll never have anyway), simple business sense.

What ever happens the D5 is lovely from the front then it appears the designer had a severe blow to the head on the back end. The rear looks AWFUL no matter where you fit the plate.

If it where me id be going for a top spec D4 that actually looks decent not like someone has stretched ham over some poorly cut melon.

DevonGuy said:

Oooooooo! Everyone's worried about a little ol' number plate!! Oooooooo looks so nasty, doesn't it, Enid? And they call Freelanders gay? Fer gawd's sake, who gives a feck?

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Because Wonky Gerry made a point ages ago about Land Rovers being about function. Then he allows a pathetic nod to a feature on the previous Discoveries which was a result of function when there's no need for it on the D5 and it is so marginal a nod that it looks awkward.
Pity only major surgery would sort the overly raked C pillar which he seems to have lifted from a sports coupe.
I've yet to see a review which calls it good looking.

Tisk Tisk..... You are all forgetting that the design for this POS was done when we were all destined to be in the Eurozone.
The offset was to allow for the placement of the obersturmbannführer Merkel's insignia for all of her Euro-race subjects.

Feathers McGraw said:

There is a cure available
https://www.startech.de/en/products/land-rover-discovery-5-5-4/

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£1,200 I beleive is the cost...