The line-up will be made up of five body styles: a pair of two-door models — most likely a hardtop and a convertible — that will replace the current Defender 90, a long-wheelbase four-door version built to replace the Defender 110, as well as two- and four-door pickups.
The SUV models will be sold in the United States, but the pickups will be kept at bay by the decades-old Chicken Tax. (The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.)
Rumours claim the Defender will ditch its rugged, body-on-frame construction and instead ride on a uni-body platform made largely out of aluminium, but Land Rover is keeping technical details under wraps for the time being.
All we know at this point is that it will be offered with four- and six-cylinder petrol and diesel engines, and that it will come with a full-time four-wheel drive system.
The Defender will debut in 2018 and hit the States in 2019.
Land Rover hopes selling the Defender in the United States for the first time since 1997 will give sales a much-needed boost. The company predicts it needs to move at least 100,000 units of the off-roader annually, a massive increase over the roughly 10,000 examples it currently sells each year.
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...r-defender-coming-with-five-bodystyles-report
The SUV models will be sold in the United States, but the pickups will be kept at bay by the decades-old Chicken Tax. (The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.)
Rumours claim the Defender will ditch its rugged, body-on-frame construction and instead ride on a uni-body platform made largely out of aluminium, but Land Rover is keeping technical details under wraps for the time being.
All we know at this point is that it will be offered with four- and six-cylinder petrol and diesel engines, and that it will come with a full-time four-wheel drive system.
The Defender will debut in 2018 and hit the States in 2019.
Land Rover hopes selling the Defender in the United States for the first time since 1997 will give sales a much-needed boost. The company predicts it needs to move at least 100,000 units of the off-roader annually, a massive increase over the roughly 10,000 examples it currently sells each year.
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...r-defender-coming-with-five-bodystyles-report
perhaps more like the classic though... a hose-down rangie.
