Thread: New Model Defender - more non info

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

Originally Posted by PAT303

What Jeep is awesome offroad?. Pat

This jeep is awesome off road Pat,
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.

Originally Posted by PAT303

What Jeep is awesome offroad?. Pat

my boss has a early 1950.s willy..its great fun out in the scrub..

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.

Originally Posted by Wicks89

.... slant the windscreen back some more ....

No, this is one of the vehicles major advantages over the opposition, living as we do in a sunny climate.

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

Originally Posted by JDNSW

No, this is one of the vehicles major advantages over the opposition, living as we do in a sunny climate.

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

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. Pat