Yahoo Autos Watch This BMW M-Powered Land Rover Discovery Rip Up Goodwood’s Hillclimb
The 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed has been running all week long, and almost all chapters and subheadings of motorsports history have made an appearance. There’s been plenty of unique, odd-ball stuff thrown into the mix for good measure, too. That's where the real entertainment lies. As such, The Drive’s Goodwood Odd-Ball Best In Show (I’m creating this award this very second) shall go to this BMW M-powered Land Rover Discovery 2.
Mercy, I can already hear the snarlings. “Two of the most unreliable automakers in history,” “what a dumb car,” and so on. But really, this thing is too frickin’ cool. Here’s why.
Firstly, one of the reasons why people love to hate this era of Land Rover so much is, well, it didn’t make the best impression reliability-wise. The gripes are appropriate there. It made the Discovery 1, filled to the brim with Lucas electrics, look like a Toyota Camry. The Disco 2 came out towards the end of when BMW still owned Land Rover, and if you thumb through a few pages of Land Rover enthusiast forums, you’ll quickly see why it was a sort of a dark age for the brand. I won't even get into the P38 Range Rover (even though I'd totally own one someday).
