Sick of seeing this on facebook. It's from a film set so may not be accurate
Yep on air with ingenium engines according to a dealer in elgin they may do a comercial coiler version.I at least know the new defender has independent suspension all round.
Must be pretty close as it matches the prototypes with the stripped back camoflage pretty closely that are in all the publicity shots.Sick of seeing this on facebook. It's from a film set so may not be accurate
Ummm, not sure what else you were expecting...as nice as it would have been for them to carry on making the old one, it was going to have to end some time. It looks like a modern-ish boxy 4x4, not sure they cold have done much else tbh.
How many pick up versions did they sell of the old Defender, as opposed to hard top? The pick up market seems pretty saturated so personally I could see why they didn't perhaps consider that a priority, maybe there's a pick up version in the pipeline (I'd be amazed if one wasn't planned).To be honest i was thinking they would turn it in to a purely pickup based line up to rival the hilux, amarok etc would have made more sense concidering it was supposed to be the cheaper work horse of the brand.
How many pick up versions did they sell of the old Defender, as opposed to hard top? The pick up market seems pretty saturated so personally I could see why they didn't perhaps consider that a priority, maybe there's a pick up version in the pipeline (I'd be amazed if one wasn't planned).
I could see both sides of it - they sold relatively few pick up style defenders, but lots of hard top - so do you cater to the people that are wanting the "Traditional" type hard top first first, ie your existing customer base? Or go straight for a pick up version where you historically don't have much of a foothold in the market (And where there's lots of established players already)?There is one planned to be released in 2021 but there is only a few station wagon types about and they are land cruisers, jimminys and shouguns and you hardly see any on the road where as you see an awful lot of pickups. I think they are making a mistake by not releasing the pickup variant first.
And the same parts bins probably.Land Rover's current designer is making great use of the copy/paste buttons. Everything looks the same, Disco, Evoque, Freelander, Range Rover....they are all coming out the same mould.
Plus you only have to look at who drives a lot of Amarok type vehicles, loaded with extras and probably knocking on 50K and more new. I doubt many of those will ever see a ploughed field.Whilst the Defender was/is much loved by the utility companies/farmers etc and is a vital part of LR DNA it didn't have the same profit margin as other models. It's likely a lot of new Defenders will be sold to people who were/are D3/D4 drivers and didn't want to go to a D5. If they don't make it an adaptable platform then they will lose all of the traditional market but I doubt they are massively concerned about that, if they were the new one would have arrived soon after the old one ended.
Why would they sell £35K utility vehicles when they have people queuing up to buy £50k Evoques and £60K Discoverys
In the early days it will be a good time to get one because there is a chance you'll get your money back if they can't keep up demand.
Yeah, new model is going to be manufactured in Slovakia apparently.Is this the car made in Eastern Europe...Slovakia or Slovenis is it?