For those of you who missed it at the Paris Motor Show ...
New Land Rover Defender to launch in 2018 | Autocar
New Land Rover Defender to launch in 2018 | Autocar
farmershort
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nah
that's the same DC-100 crap that they speculated about ages ago!!! it says "this is how it COULD look" in the report.... it's just a LWB dc-100.
that's the same DC-100 crap that they speculated about ages ago!!! it says "this is how it COULD look" in the report.... it's just a LWB dc-100.
FlyingPete
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Same old stuff from autocar, trying to hide the fact that they haven't learnt anything new about it 
Littelwill
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looks crap!
For those of you who missed it at the Paris Motor Show ...
New Land Rover Defender to launch in 2018 | Autocar
Good god a epuke front and a nissan cube rear, stevey wonder designed that rubbish, gaylander inspired no doubt
West Slope Rover
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Looks like a Lego.
Littelwill
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Total heap! But I bet it sells well... The evoke has sold pretty well and the Freelander/Disco abortion has also done pretty well I'm told...
KillaJoules
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Just a rehash of the MSN motors article last month posted in this thread
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f16/interesting-article-new-defender-msn-autos-278186.html
Deep Dive: All-New 2019 Land Rover Defender: An Icon, Reinvented
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f16/interesting-article-new-defender-msn-autos-278186.html
Deep Dive: All-New 2019 Land Rover Defender: An Icon, Reinvented
KillaJoules
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honolulujoe
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FlyingPete
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It's worth mentioning that so far nothing official has been released from Land Rover. Unless you count the 'image in the sand' stunt done a few months ago that doesn't look much like the current model...
Tigger Eeyore & Roo
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Although I live on Bodmin Moor, I'm currently on holiday in Mid Wales (sort of home from home, but different accents and a lot more sheep)
It's such a shame to see that the only Defenders are old ones and the only new, or vaguely new, farm vehicles are quads or slitties (can I still say that?!). There's one outside the Cafe now, being washed (like he's actually proud of it) and there's an agricultural supplier down the road with a forecourt full of the darn things. Good grief, there's even a BMW X3 around the back and it seems to belong to the Cafe owners.
Roll on something modern that can compete with these things directly but, somehow, I reckon they may have abandoned that market for good. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
Either way, I look forward to seeing the real thing when we finally get genuine pictures.
It's such a shame to see that the only Defenders are old ones and the only new, or vaguely new, farm vehicles are quads or slitties (can I still say that?!). There's one outside the Cafe now, being washed (like he's actually proud of it) and there's an agricultural supplier down the road with a forecourt full of the darn things. Good grief, there's even a BMW X3 around the back and it seems to belong to the Cafe owners.
Roll on something modern that can compete with these things directly but, somehow, I reckon they may have abandoned that market for good. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
Either way, I look forward to seeing the real thing when we finally get genuine pictures.
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FlyingPete
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No doubt some people will be upset when they find the new one can't be mended with a brick and a piece of string, but you just can't make a car that way any more. Doesn't stop you from making a proper utility vehicle meant to 'do stuff' though.
KillaJoules
Active Member
I agree, I love my Landies, but every now and then my dealer gives me a hippo2 as a courtesy car when the 110 is in. And it is fun having all the modern driver distractions etc.
Those of us who are slightly maturer then the rest will have been cursing Land Rovers lack of development for decades. Lets face it the last significant upgrade to the vehicle and space was 1958 when the s2 body was released that is still in use today!
Land Rover only care about the heritage for marketing, they don't actually care about the old cars.
The truth is in the sales figures, the Defender is no longer viable in its current form, n7mbers wise it barely shifts 1800 units a year.
It has to be a new car that addresses the modern world. A car that can be sold in the modern markets where the money is.
I Must actually quite excited about what they will produce,, I have toyed with buying one of the last Defenders but actually going to wait and should be in a position to buy a new one in 2018.
That should give me enough time to rebuild the S3 at the bottom of the garden. The TD5 should also be just about run in by then
Those of us who are slightly maturer then the rest will have been cursing Land Rovers lack of development for decades. Lets face it the last significant upgrade to the vehicle and space was 1958 when the s2 body was released that is still in use today!
Land Rover only care about the heritage for marketing, they don't actually care about the old cars.
The truth is in the sales figures, the Defender is no longer viable in its current form, n7mbers wise it barely shifts 1800 units a year.
It has to be a new car that addresses the modern world. A car that can be sold in the modern markets where the money is.
I Must actually quite excited about what they will produce,, I have toyed with buying one of the last Defenders but actually going to wait and should be in a position to buy a new one in 2018.
That should give me enough time to rebuild the S3 at the bottom of the garden. The TD5 should also be just about run in by then
