This Discovery II ditches its stock 217-hp V-8 for a more powerful Vortec V-8, and it's up for auction now on the Bring a Trailer website.
is a hybrid. Don't bother looking for any electric drive motors or high-capacity batteries, though, because this Disco's not a gasoline-electric hybrid, but a manufacturing one. You see, this British box no longer relies on the 217-hp 4.6-liter V-8 it left the factory with. Instead, it utilizes a good old American General Motors mill from a Chevrolet.doesn't share the specific Chevy this Rover's Vortec 5.3-liter V-8—or LC9 to you GM nerds—was plucked from.
Oh, and what a potentially frustrating and fun future this near-20-year-old Disco holds for the winner of this auction. We won't sugarcoat it; this era of Discovery, much like Land Rover's in general, is no poster child for reliability.
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