The philosophical 2018 Land Rover Series VI / Defender / 'Icon'...
I'm probably putting a spanner in the works here but I don't mind the look of the DC100. Do I think it's a good replacement for the defender? No. Is it where Land Rover will travel with the Defender? Probably. Will I buy one? No way. Would I up date my Series 3 109. Probably what would it be? Probably a Defender. My point is that unfortunately you can't stop things changing do we need to like it? No. Do we need to accept it? Unfortunately yes.
I would like to see the Defender still get made (maybe like the 40 Series 'Cruisers and VW Beetles were in Brazil), yes it's an icon. But so was a lot of other cars. Unfortunately we live in a materialistic society where we 'need' to upgrade our car every couple of years, because of the gadgets 'we' demand.
I'll end with this,
Land Rover better come up with a real cracker. I don't think I could imagine Queen Elizabeth II driving anything else.
Nathan.