Supacat wrote:

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Jonathan Walls (@JonathanWalls4) Tweeted:
Who needs step ladders when you’ve got a moving one! Hedge cutting made simple thanks to #Newdefender and its superb static and dynamic roof load carrying capability !!#stayinstayadventurous https://t.co/RyEEKZvkvX https://twitter.com/JonathanWalls4/status/...96768?s=20

Supacat wrote:

Not going to help those CO2 fleet averages...

If you're selling them outside the EU it won't count towards the EU sales CO2 average, sell as many as want in the rest of the world!
Then if you want to sell a really exclusive (very high profit) model inside the EU, the low number sold won't dent the average much. Or you sell as many as you can and stop just before the average becomes illegal.

Either way the sales inside the EU will be fully compliant with all environmental legislation. Just as every manufacturer will be doing and saying "look how good we are".
Shame it's finished the Suzuki Jimny in the EU though.

Devon-Rover wrote:

Thanks for the Video share Naks.

The rub is that knowing the Eastnor estate. They had a play up on the sheep field where the concrete moguls are then moved up the hill to the rock crawl, (which they descended ) and then before you know it they have turned their backs on Clenchers mill and Hospital ( Just a stone throw from the field) and gone off back across the estate to go up along the ridgeway. Sadly having driven all those tracks in my defender it didn't really break a sweat either. So to me the new defenders off road ability remains a mystery.
We won't mention they appeared to have been lead about by a D5 anyway.

The winching bit wouldn't have stopped most vehicles anyway, apart from trials 80's with their 4.6's and insa turbos on, that has been run through there if I'm recognising that bit correctly.

Grenadier wrote:

^^^ It could be argued that that is either JLR's fault or McGovern's fault. If JLR hadn't allowed this new model to be called 'Defender' or McGovern hadn't decided that it should be the successor to our Defenders, then the comparison would never be made. By calling it Defender, selling and marketing as Defender, getting the PR machine working full time to allude to how good this Defender is (and whilst not directly saying so, implying that the old one wasn't as good, iconic or not), a journalist is automatically going to compare the two. I also have no doubt that the differences between old and new are rammed down their throats during their JLR organised test days. It'll only change when the vehicle is on the open market and available for journos to test them independently and compare them alongside other brands.