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This makes for interesting reading. Firstly, TimoS: You can see my history of Land Rover ownership below. I've owned the current September 2017 L405 SDV8 from new and it has just under 80,000 miles (129,000 km) on it now. I plan on keeping it until at least 4 years / 135,000 miles (218,000 km)...

It was a bit of a leg pull after all the flak I’d been getting from everyone over L405 tech! :D

Why do you need an LED torch? They’ve got electronic circuits in them you know and certainly weren’t around in 1948... What’s wrong with making your own candles from tallow? ;)

If you ever live, or visit, somewhere that’s properly dark at night, there are times that you can’t even see where the car is, let alone get to it without tripping over something or treading in crap. Then, being able to switch the headlights on remotely is brilliant. I’ve no idea where “£1,000”...

Where did it say that?

You can tell that’s why they’re driving stupidly fast in fog as they drive by? Impressive! Of course, it might just be that they’re idiots...

Fair enough! (Apologies for being in part responsible for them appearing on Hinckley Triumphs :oops:)

If the next person that wants to criticise the instruments for being digital could please take a look at the analogue speedometer, rev counter, fuel and temperature gauges that it comes with first, that’d be great! :p:D

It shows analogue dials and needles, just like yours, it’s just that they are provided via a TFT screen. It’s great, because you can switch from a mph to km/h speedometer instantly or, if you use low range (and I do!), the speedometer drops from 155 maximum to 60 - with all the numbers really...

What do you do to check your speed then?

Having a duplicate of the speed limit sign right in the middle of the speedometer is a distraction?!

I’m not aware of them being able to read signs, unless you can tell me otherwise?

You can watch the road more, if you don’t have to keep taking your eye off it to look out for signs by the side of the road. It will simply report the number it sees, but then the entire display is a TFT screen (like a mobile phone), so you simply let the car know you’re in a km/h country and...

The camera is stuck to the inside of the windscreen, in the area swept by the wiper blade - so keeping it clean isn’t a problem. If it’s covered in ice, the car will tell you that it can’t see for the minute that it takes to defrost it for you. As for lampposts, it only works on speed limit...

The difference being that the last visible speed limit sign is always available to you next to the speedo. You don't have to wait for the next one to come up.

I'm pretty sure it does on mine, though I'm 70 miles from the nearest motorway and I only get to go on a "smart" motorway about twice a year!

@ gold rover - the handy thing with speed sign recognition is that it is instantaneous and doesn’t depend on any database :)

Another new member driven away then :( Not too sure what the objective was here.

All of you, please actually try a car with speed sign recognition for at least 10,000 miles and then come back and only then tell me that it isn’t a useful safety aid :rolleyes:

A Series should certainly cure it :D But, in a country where the police are obsessed with speed limits over everything else, it’s good to have technology help you out with the mindless robotics of looking out for speed signs, freeing up the driver up to do the more important things - like not...