Thread: 2016 'Defender'

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Drop back to fifth, push the revs up towards 3000 and you should get along quite nicely.

Yes, unless you're on a hill, then fourth is needed and momentum is lost. The downside of puma 2.2 IMHO, but then this has been the tradition of engines in 110's since forever! 😊

Why are we writing Land Rover off before there's ANY information confirmed about it?
The Defender, as romantic as it may be, is a relic.
I get why people like them. Hell, I like them. I'm going to buy one.
But it's not economically viable to produce them, and impossible to make them comply with todays rules and regulations. We're no doubt in a bit of a nanny state future with pedestrian airbags and stuff like that but these are the lines on the ground and Land Rover has to play within them like everyone else.
Land Rover has been at the forefront of automotive offroad technology basically since they first started. There's a reason Land Rover is keeping exceptionally quiet about it. Hell, the DC100 was probably a nice little red herring that cost them bugger all and had everyone laughing and nashing their teeth and diverted attention away from what Land Rover was actually doing.
It's not going to be that slab sided hose out hero that it currently is (although if you hose out a puma interior you're pretty game imho), but from what I've heard (and no, I'm NOT going to elaborate on that at all because I haven't heard anything ) it will be a worthy successor.
Good things come to those who wait...