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| jezhermer Member Since: 30 Mar 2015 Location: Dorset Posts: 49  
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Cupboard...
excellent. Many thanks for that really useful insight... In fact we've just lent a local farmer friend a light body prototype for a few weeks... so far he's managed to cover it in cow sh*t and straw. He's a man of few words and doesn't offer praise easily. The feed back so far goes something like ... 'Ssaaawaarrt..spooose'. You obviously speak farmese...Any ideas? J |
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21st Apr 2015 3:21pm |
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| jezhermer Member Since: 30 Mar 2015 Location: Dorset Posts: 49
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Lambert the farmer...
again... very many thanks for some really useful... agricultural input. All very valuable. Please see reply to Cupboard above... if you can shed any light on the Farmese it would be appreciated. Very best - and look forward to hearing more from you. JH |
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21st Apr 2015 3:23pm |
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| steve E Member Since: 06 Mar 2011 Location: Tenby Posts: 2073 
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21st Apr 2015 3:37pm |
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| Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971 
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 Click image to enlarge I hadn't realised I'd being off to Jewson's so soon, just picked up a load of sharp sand and some cement. Now had my lunch so time to unload  |
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22nd Apr 2015 12:19pm |
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| jezhermer Member Since: 30 Mar 2015 Location: Dorset Posts: 49
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Click image to enlarge CROSSWAY Internals.... Fully integrated dashboard system... Too many bells and whistles to mention. Full aluminium, hand fabricated dashboard and centre console as standard. CAN Bus electronics, dual battery system with split charge and trickle charge. 200 amp alternator..... |
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12th Oct 2015 9:03pm |
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| tonyhedge Member Since: 07 Jul 2015 Location: Worcestershire Posts: 101 
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Needs more gearsticks and fewer buttons!
 That's not a dent, it's a rivet. That's not a dent, it's a rivet. That's not ... oh! That is a dent!
2014 90 XS SW 1997 Discovery 300TdiS (retired to stud) 1966 Series IIA 88" (now my son's) 2001 Astra - I need something to go and buy the parts when the others are off the road! |
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12th Oct 2015 10:33pm |
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| jezhermer Member Since: 30 Mar 2015 Location: Dorset Posts: 49
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Not for our current customers Tony! But if that's what future customers want.. that's what they'll get... we build to order!
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12th Oct 2015 10:36pm |
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| Stiff1 Member Since: 09 Dec 2014 Location: Cornwall Posts: 595 
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All that and still the same old stalks...
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12th Oct 2015 11:26pm |
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| jezhermer Member Since: 30 Mar 2015 Location: Dorset Posts: 49
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They work fine..... to be fair... and reasonably tough, though now linked to a CAN bus system...
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12th Oct 2015 11:32pm |
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| Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971
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Just wondering, you know all the vehicles you build on Defender chassis? What are you going to do when production stops (if that isn't too sensitive a question)?
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13th Oct 2015 12:34pm |
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| smb Member Since: 15 Jan 2013 Location: Cheshire Posts: 1232 
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You haven't been commissioned by LR to do this study for the replacement by chance????
If not, then they should have gone to you rather than rely on their own lot!! |
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13th Oct 2015 12:49pm |
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| jezhermer Member Since: 30 Mar 2015 Location: Dorset Posts: 49
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SMB.. thanks for the kind sentiment! Unfortunately... not. The realities of mass production, inefficiencies of the DEFENDER build process and shareholder lack of vision have put paid to the concept of JLR producing a real DEFENDER replacement. We're a cottage industry in comparison, or a 'boutique' company if you like... we have a very different business model. Having said that, we are getting a steadily increasing number of inquiries.
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13th Oct 2015 1:19pm |
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| PDH Member Since: 03 Dec 2009 Location: Shropshire Posts: 179 
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I like the concept and with the demise of our beloved defender in its current form it could have a lot of potential buyers....HOWEVER.... the person who penned the shape needs to rethink their profession. Getting a consumer design person to re-pen the outer skin could be the difference between low volume and mass volume sales. Puma 2.2 90 Stationwagon
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14th Oct 2015 10:51am |
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| jezhermer Member Since: 30 Mar 2015 Location: Dorset Posts: 49
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PDH..
Thanks for your comments, really good to hear.. Firstly.. I would say that we have no intention of mass producing - we are a bespoke vehicle manufacturer - we build to order and every vehicle is unique. We have 30 vehicles in build right now.. and that's pretty much our limit at the moment.. so about 150 - 200 per year as we stand would see us maxed out. As for aesthetics.. well.. beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. The design gets a huge number of plaudits - whilst some folk are less enamored.. patently! It was ever thus with Defender. The vehicle has taken OVIK - a small Dorset based company with just 30 staff - three years to design, refine, test and produce... so it won't be getting a re-design any time soon... I've already mortgaged my house twice over! |
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14th Oct 2015 11:24am |
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