After my New year's Eve snapped crank disaster with my much loved and now defunct D3, I went to see an '09 TDV8 Vogue today... and came home with it. Hopefully it really is as good as it looks. It's even had the extended rear wheel arch protectors fitted, so someone appears to have been caring for it. No pressure then.

All I have to do now is keep a light right foot and work out what all the buttons do. The D3 wasn't short of them.

After buying the D3 new in 2006, I went from a Disco3 SE to a new FFRR 3.6 Vogue back in 2009. Never looked back.

Kept the same 3.6 Vogue until 2021, then replaced it with a 4.4 Westie.

For well over a decade, never once have I looked at any other vehicle (LR or otherwise) and wished for a swap.

I hope my experience mirrors yours.  The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom

I had a D3 2.7 tdv6 HSE fir six years and loved it, very practical and refined, moved on to a late 2012 4.4 TDV8 Westie the difference is like night and day, and the Range Rover is better on fuel on long trips as the engine doesn’t need to work hard to get it upto speed I’m sure the 3.6tdv8 is a revaluation compared to the D3, there are only two things I miss from the D3, first is the ability to take 7 people when required and the main one is the boot in the D3 was way more practical for us with a big dog as it had separate rear AirCon to keep the old boy cool, but I wouldn’t go back, the Range Rover is a great thing to waft about in 2012 Range Rover Westminster 4.4 TDV8
2006 Discovery 3 HSE 260k miles and still going strong with a new owner

Yes, it is the cavernous boot space and hidden storage I'm going to miss. Let's hope Wafting makes up for it.