Thread: No Defenders to be made in 2015?

I'm pretty sure that the "next" Defender will not be built at Solihull either. In India is most likely.

I'm definately hanging on to my 2005 td5.
It has now become an appreciating asset

It better cause it owes me a small fortune.

Originally Posted by numpty

I'm pretty sure that the "next" Defender will not be built at Solihull either. In India is most likely.

Read the full article posted earlier in the thread. They are building 4 brand new "state of the art" aluminium body assembly plants at solihull (last on will only be finished early 2015). One each for the new Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and potentially one each for the brand new Discovery 5 and Defender planned to be available early 2016.

The Discovery 4 is hover so successful that the Discovery 5 might be delayed, but Land Rover appears to be moving to all aluminium and the Disco 4 is still steel.

Land Rover has pretty much confirmed the "Heavy Offroad" division ie Defender, will stay in Solihull.

Everybody is hoping though for a continued "flat pack" assembly of "classic" Defenders elsewhere in the world (most probably a developing country if rumours are to be believed)

Cheers,

Lou

Originally Posted by rijidij

My non-electronic, 3.9 litre Isuzu County will still be going strong well beyond 2020

Cheers, Murray

don't get too cheeky,
Leaded petrol cars have all but vanished. Better hope the Government don't have a rush of blood and place a strong emissions standard on diesels. Doing it in Europe, and only have to have the yanks to do it more than in California and guess who'll follow.

What EU standard is a Isuzu. My 2010 Tdci is EU4 and it has been surpassed by EU5 when the 2.2's came out. 2015 will see another jump in level I assume.
Emissions are like safety, where does it stop.

I dream of driving and constantly fixing my 2010 for another 30 years but some how i think the Government won't let me.

Well that means the government will also be taking a lot of small trucks off the road as well and anyway, those of us with TDi's and Isuzu's could always revert to cooking oil (couldn't we?)

Originally Posted by newhue

don't get too cheeky,
Leaded petrol cars have all but vanished. Better hope the Government don't have a rush of blood and place a strong emissions standard on diesels. Doing it in Europe, and only have to have the yanks to do it more than in California and guess who'll follow.

What EU standard is a Isuzu. My 2010 Tdci is EU4 and it has been surpassed by EU5 when the 2.2's came out. 2015 will see another jump in level I assume.
Emissions are like safety, where does it stop.

I dream of driving and constantly fixing my 2010 for another 30 years but some how i think the Government won't let me.

Emissions specs have never been retrospective in AU (or the US).

There are plenty of leaded petrol cars, though they now all invariably have hardened valve seats fitted if driven regularly.

4BD1s comply with Euro 1 (or at least some do). Euro 5/6 for passenger vehicles (includes LRs/defenders) is being phased in between now and 2018 because the number concentration limit was "too hard" for the Australian industry to compy with and they said they needed more time.

Any diesel can comply with Euro 6 if retrofitted with a DPF, Oxy-cat and SCR (worst case scenario...)...

For commonrail diesel owners, if you want to be driving your vehicle long-term, you will need to fit improved fuel filtration, or budget for regular changes of injectors.

Originally Posted by newhue

don't get too cheeky,
Leaded petrol cars have all but vanished.

They vanished of their own accord (age of vehicles etc), not because of govt intervention.

The only country silly enough to outlaw diesels was Japan in several cities. That cost their automotive industry an incredible amount. It is the sole reason that all good passenger car diesels for the last 13 years are european.

I still hold out hope that Land Rover can pull off a new Defender successfully. They've done it with the Range Rover. Visually in tune with the original but still better in every way (except maybe price). They have the technology...