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Junkyard Gem: 1997 Land Rover Discovery XD

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Land Rovers

tend to

depreciate

fast, once they get into the hands of third or fourth owners who don’t take care of regular maintenance items and allow the interiors to get trashed. I see plenty of

Discoveries

as

I roam from junkyard to junkyard

in the Denver area, but mostly I don’t pay much attention to them. I wouldn’t have noticed this one, but I happened to be junkyard shopping with fellow Denver car writer

Andrew Ganz

(who loves trucks and was shopping for

Jeep Cherokee

bits) and he pointed out the XD fender badges.

Junked 1997 Land Rover Discovery XD

The

XD was a low-production special edition

for the US market, and it came with various flavors of stripes and badges. From what I can tell, all of the XDs had yellow paint and black hoods.

Junked 1997 Land Rover Discovery XD

This one might be a clone, or a mashup of ordinary Discovery and XD Discovery body panels. At this point, it doesn’t matter much. If only the Land Rover folks had known that XD would become the basis of

a very popular emoticon

during the smartphone era, they could have capitalized on it.

Junked 1997 Land Rover Discovery XD

Not many Americans are willing to perform all the maintenance that a British truck needs once it reaches a certain age, and so this one never had a chance to see six figures on the odometer.

Junked 1997 Land Rover Discovery XD

The engine is the 4.0-liter version of

the venerable Rover V8

, descendant of the early-1960s

Buick

215 and close cousin to the incredibly prolific

Buick V6 family of engines

. 182 horses in 1997.

Junked 1997 Land Rover Discovery XD

The base Discovery listed at $32,000 in 1997, $2,667 less than a new 1997

Jeep Grand Cherokee

Limited with four-wheel-drive and V8 engine. $32,000 in 1997 is equivalent to about $51,000 in 2019.

Junked 1997 Land Rover Discovery XD

The interior looks to have been pretty clean, before the junkyard parts shoppers started tearing it apart.

Only $50 down to

lease

one!

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