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| mikelike Member Since: 31 Aug 2011 Location: new zealand Posts: 108  |
Oh my God , how did they mess up an icon ?
Not at all what I was expecting , Just another Suv !!!! |
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30th Apr 2019 7:59am |
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| Tdi4 Member Since: 24 Oct 2014 Location: Houten Posts: 513  
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I guess you can change a lot of settings with your laptop. Ie how long the headlights stay if you exit the car.....
No not for me. To me it seams ike a modern disposable (after 5 years) car. I think we have enough of them already. a defender from 1984 pretending to be a puma with a touch of Range Rover |
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30th Apr 2019 8:23am |
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| Tdi4 Member Since: 24 Oct 2014 Location: Houten Posts: 513
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Nope too busy with their in-car entertainment Or whatsapp...... a defender from 1984 pretending to be a puma with a touch of Range Rover
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30th Apr 2019 10:01am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17362  
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Hmm, a stretched Yeti with Botox.
It is probably a reasonable successor to the Discovery 1, 2, 3, and 4 (which the 5 and Sport most definately are not). It is not however a Defender. |
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30th Apr 2019 11:13am |
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| markb110 Member Since: 22 May 2010 Location: Guildford Posts: 2627  
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That new image was part of an article that said it was going to a game reserve in Africa for product testing. 20 inch low profile tyres is not a tyre I would want (can it even be aired down) and how easy would it be to replace in that environment. Would be nice to know how many fooked wheels and tyres per vehicle during testing. On one of the LR Experience sites they have a stack of wheels and tyres piled up and that is on a manicure site, not the real world.
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30th Apr 2019 11:58am |
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| 22900013A Member Since: 23 Dec 2010 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 3149 
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They were testing a short wheelbase in Banbury today. Amazingly the driver (it was LHD) gave me a wave!
 Click image to enlarge 2011 110 USW 1973 Series III 1-Ton 1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker 1969 IIA 1-Ton 1966 IIA 88" |
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30th Apr 2019 12:43pm |
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| LandymanStefan Member Since: 30 Aug 2017 Location: Surrey Posts: 881 
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Gap in the market for Suzuki to come up with a jimny XL now
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30th Apr 2019 12:53pm |
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| boxoftricks Member Since: 06 Feb 2019 Location: Home Counties Posts: 747 
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30th Apr 2019 12:59pm |
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| Naks Member Since: 27 Jan 2009 Location: Stellenbosch, ZA Posts: 2638  
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https://www.driving.co.uk/news/new-images-...s-testing/
As part of its field tests, Land Rover’s been taking the pre-production Defender to highly challenging environments, such as the canyons and 10,000ft altitude of the Rocky mountians in Colorado, the 50C heat of the desert and the sub-40C cold of the Arctic Circle. Quite why the car maker felt the need to also take it to the Nürburgring Nordschleife race track in Germany is beyond us, though. Having racked up 745,000 miles of testing already, Land Rover says it has no plans to wind down the development programme just yet. Defenders will next be deployed to Kenya, where they’ll assist the Tusk Trust’s operations at the Borana Conservancy nature reserve, towing heavy loads, wading through rivers and carrying supplies across unforgiving terrain in a series of real-world trials at the 14,000-hectare reserve. Land Rover says that by the time the new Defender makes its public debut later this year, it will have passed more than 45,000 individual tests in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge As part of its ongoing testing Land Rover is also handing over a Defender prototype to its partner the Tusk Trust, in Kenya. The specially camouflaged vehicle will be used by the trust across its 14,000-hectare reserve to test its abilities in real-world use. Click image to enlarge -- 2010 Defender Puma 90 + BAS remap + Alive IC + Slickshift + Ashcroft ATB rear 2015 Range Rover Sport V8 Supercharged
Defender Puma Workshop Manual: https://bit.ly/2zZ1en9 Discovery 4 Workshop Manual: https://bit.ly/2zXrtKO Range Rover/Sport L320/L322/L494 Workshop Manual: https://bit.ly/2zc58JQ |
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30th Apr 2019 2:51pm |
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| ibexman Member Since: 13 Dec 2008 Location: Essex Posts: 2945
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Looking like a Nissan patrol GU🤔
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30th Apr 2019 3:26pm |
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| Orchard Member Since: 07 May 2015 Location: Usually walking the dog Posts: 258 |
Looks great to me, a modern contemporary Defender. Not a pastiche or trying to be what is iconic. It has to meet pedestrian safety standards, really tough future crash regs, be more aerodynamic to improve refinement and fuel economy targets, so it has be more ‘rounded’. Replacing (re-inventing might be more appropriate?) a much loved (old) product is always decisive, will lose some loyalists but hopefully gain many times more new lovers of Defender, and securing the future. Look at old mini vs new, one was a commercial disaster the other is selling 250,000 per year for BMW and created x’000 jobs in Oxford. Inevitably there will be new vs old tests but it’ll be like comparing a DB6 to a DB11. Same lineage but time has moved, on and so will Defender. I’m going to keep my 90 forever and can’t wait for the next generation.
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1998 TD5 CSW |
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30th Apr 2019 4:58pm |
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| familymad Member Since: 13 Dec 2011 Location: Bucks Posts: 3481  
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I wanted a D4 for all the good bits it possessed over our 110. The power, comfort and ability. I used to follow https://m.facebook.com/ProSpeedUK and how able their Disco’s were. This appears to be exactly that vehicle.
It’s not the original but then I didn’t expect it to be. I wanted something that was a modern day D4.... 1951 80" S1 2.0
1995 110 300TDI 1995 90 300TDI |
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30th Apr 2019 5:29pm |
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| CR Member Since: 28 Jan 2010 Location: Ireland Posts: 947  
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pointy top its like a tomlerone
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30th Apr 2019 5:59pm |
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| jfh Member Since: 08 Jan 2014 Location: West Coast Posts: 357 
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What is this?
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30th Apr 2019 6:12pm |
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