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Land Rover LR3 Discovery
The Discovery (now known
in the United States as the LR3) is a comfortable
4x4 vehicle (SUV in American-English) from
Ford's Land Rover marque. There have been
three generations of the vehicle, which is
smaller and somewhat less expensive than the
company's top Range Rover model. The Discovery
was introduced in the late 1980s and is the
most popular model of Land Rover. It is not
as utilitarian as the Defender, but it is
very competent off road.
Based in part on the
original Range Rover, the Discovery was introduced
into the United Kingdom in 1989. The company
code-named the vehicle "Project Jay",
and came close to calling it the "Prarie
Rover" until the decision was made to
improve the overall branding strategy, eventually
leading to the Land Rover name becoming detached
from any specific model (at the launch of
the "Defender" name.)
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