Okay, okay. Hands up! We’ve miscredited the car pictured here as being the new, 2010 model year Discovery. Land Rover’s not showing the facelifted Disco until next month, and we thought this was the 2010 Disco out early. But we got this one wrong… it’s a bodykitted current gen Discovery.

We at CAR Online aren’t too big to admit when we were wrong, so here’s our correction. But the gist of the original story is still bang-on. So read on for the detail of the 2010 Disco – just ignore the bodykitted current model in our pictures!

Land Rover has a new “son of Range Rover” - a baby model due to make its debut next year.

It is based on the LRX concept first shown at the 2008 Detroit motor show and tipped to join Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models in showrooms in 2011.

No official name has been revealed, and, at present, the car is referred to simply as the Range Rover Compact.

Land Rover managing director Phil Popham said: “It would be the smallest, lightest and most efficient Range Rover that we’ve ever built.

Land Rover has an image problem.

The things people love about its cars (4×4 capabilities, high driving position and, frankly, scale) are the very reasons others deride them as examples of pointless excess. Then there’s an on going perception that its products haven’t always as well made or reliable as they should be.

Until last year the company could take such brickbats with a shrug. It posted record sales, particularly in America, where even the vulgarian Range Rover Sport was regarded by many as compact and a bit introverted.

Land Rover is to show the new Range Rover ‘Westminster’ Limited Edition together with the 2010 Freelander 2 at the Geneva Motor Show.

The unique ‘Westminster’ features include 20″ Diamond Turned wheels, an exterior design pack, ‘Westminster’ tailgate badging, half wood steering wheel and stainless steel accents to the brake and accelerator pedals.

Only 300 ‘Westminster’ editions will go on sale at Land Rover dealerships in the UK, from the end of March, with prices starting from £62,995.

John Edwards, Land Rover UK managing director said: “The dramatic visual impact of the ‘Westminster’ coupled with the Range Rover’s supreme breadth of capability and acclaimed TDV8 diesel powertrain, makes this edition an exceptionally enticing proposition.”