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The amount of comments I get about the Defender has suprised me. 'Nice Truck' is the most common I get from people just walking by. I wouldnt be suprised if another company takes all the styling cues and ability ideas of the Defender and bring it into the fruition. Toyota may already be onto it with a revised newly named LC.
I love how Jeep has managed to produce an off roader that from all accounts is pretty awesome both off road and on road. Maybe Land Rover could learn a lesson? I love my defender. Basic works for me, however I have driven tractors which are more user friendly. The Defender must move with the times and be sold to a wider demographic, just as long as a bare basic model is still offered I think all bases can be covered.
What Jeep is awesome offroad?. Pat
This jeep is awesome off road Pat,Quote:
Originally Posted by PAT303
Where ever the 101 can go, so can the jeep!
N.b. photo pinched from here,
Sand, Wind and Stars - LRDG, 70 years on: A tight fit.
There was also an article about this setup in one of the recent Land rover magazines.
Mike.
my boss has a early 1950.s willy..its great fun out in the scrub..Quote:
Originally Posted by PAT303
I think Pat303 was referring to modern Jeeps, such as the wrangler, which are crap IMO. I like the way they retained their live axle suspension but TBH Ive been in a few and theyre bloody garbage poser cars. Made for hair dressers to drive with the roofs off.
It angers me a bit that lots of people want the Defender to go down the SUV path, when to my mind Land Rover should conceptually go back to the Defenders PURPOSE. It's a TRACTOR.
Keep the suspension (it's not broken) give it a bigger Donk, put some airbags in it, slant the windscreen back some more and put some nicer seats in it, maybe with a rubberised floor. Bobs your mothers brother.
No, this is one of the vehicles major advantages over the opposition, living as we do in a sunny climate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wicks89
But I agree with just about everything else, except, perhaps the bigger engine, which is almost certainly an impossibility down the track, although perhaps possible today.
John
The bigger engine with auto will come with the ''new'' Defender,it would've been nice if Ford made the TDCi a 3ltre four but they didn't so we have what we have. Pat
My Hilux in a normal Newman summer day would get so hot if I parked it towards the sun that when I got in it it would suck the air from my chest,I think it would've been easy to cooks eggs on the front seat in that unreliable POS. PatQuote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
The new Defer will obviously have an Ingenium engine. the baby is a 4 cylinder 2L. they say the engine family is scalable,, but not how.