Reply With QuoteIt'll never happen,LR aren't stupid and niether is TATA. Pat
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SubscriberFrom LRO.,by Mark Saville.
" make no mistake, the DC100 I drove in the French alps is very much a concept vehicle. It's a genuine lash-up. Only the drivers door opens & the automatic gearbox selector has to be operated by a LR experience yanking on a length of wire.Beneath the curvy exterior is is a modified RR sport supercharged floorpan & running gear. " He goes on , but the point of the article is that the new defender is not set in stone, according to JLR. However, 21st century technology that is earmarked for the new defender turns me off it.For example;
ADVANCED TERRAIN RESPONSE
automatically and instantly picks the best setting,using a patented ' conditional probability matrix'
feed forward technology
using hd cameras, the matrix will able to predict what's about to happen and be ready to react when the obstacle is reached
Terrain eye
3D mapping to see the obstacles & prepare the vehicles for it or suggest an alternative route
wade Aid
sensors monitor water depth, , even coping with bow waves. It may be possible to advise the driver on correct speed to create the perfect bow wave. linked to air suspension to raise vehicle in deeper water.
STUDDED TYRES
Tyres with studs that automatically raise & lower, using the pressure within the tyre to activate them.
Self inflating tyres
using sidewalls to ' pump air into them
Airless wheels
to replace the tyre and the majority of the rim with composite material.
They can't be serious. land Rover is turning to the DARK SIDE, more bling than substance, they seem to be not developing a drivers vehicle, but one for the yuppies . [guess that's where the money is] Not for me. Bob
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
OldBushie
It'll never happen,LR aren't stupid and niether is TATA. Pat
OldBushie
Thats why its a concept
Pushing the envelope is the relm of concept vehicles...
And the real vehicle will only come with enough to hit its target audience... Only to have small step changes / features added to prolong model life..
And engineer / designer I knew who worked at Mitsubishi and then Holden once told me...
"We dont have to design or make the best vehicle we can. It only has to be 'just' better than the others at the time."
Wizard
SubscriberAs stated above. Don't expect to see those features anytime soon. The first four are probably 5 years away. The tyre tech, closer to 10 before civvy consumers see them.
ATR isn't a great leap forward from the curent system anyway, just some feedback loops from the wheelspeed sensors to alter maps if the setting is not having the desired response
Dave.
ForumSage
None of those are of any practical use. TBH they sound like something made up over a few too many cocktails by people who have never driven off tarmac.
ChatterBox
Ther's no way a computer can predict conditions offroad and set up a vehicle accordingly, not even a very experienced 4wder can, but they can react a hell of a lot quicker than a computer can, eg. to through the CDL in when the poo hits the fan.
And the wading thing is stupid, how will it know what the base of the river/stram is going to be like, could be 6 feet of mud. Only way to know is still to get out and walk it.
The DC100 is a gimmick.
Cheers
Will
ForumSage
What I want to know is "how do they get tyres made for 1-off concept vehicles like the DC100?"
ChatterBox
They get re-treads, then someone with a grooving iron makes the pretty pattern, i would assume
Swaggie
i reckon you have nailed it.....Originally Posted by skuilnaam
Thats why its a concept
Pushing the envelope is the relm of concept vehicles...
And the real vehicle will only come with enough to hit its target audience... Only to have small step changes / features added to prolong model life..
And engineer / designer I knew who worked at Mitsubishi and then Holden once told me...
"We dont have to design or make the best vehicle we can. It only has to be 'just' better than the others at the time."
if the report is spot on than good on them for pushing the envelope
Master
They need to start assuming that people in the market for a Defender already have the know how to drive offroad, or at least, don't want to be babied through it.
The Defender is basic, utilitarian, easy to keep running and work on, and easy to modify in whichever particular way suits your needs. These new concepts fit none of these requirements.
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