Defender 110 ordered - Feeling excited!

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Originally Posted by Andrew86

You've said yourself though that the Defender has always been pretty good value at $50-60k, compared to other 4x4s on the market.

Now that they're no longer available to buy new, there isn't the RRP price ceiling that there was before and the market gets to determine their true value. I don't think 70, 80 or even 90k is that ridiculous for a car like the Defender that we'll never see anything like again.

There are definitely some dreamers out there though, I don't disagree.

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Cheers Andrew, yes agreed, but I don't think there would be many who would actually pay such a premium. They'd buy a Discovery for $80K. The limited edition Defenders aren't that different from standard. It's really just colour and logos. I noticed there appears to still be a Heritage 90 new on car sales? The demand just isn't high enough.

Although the articles in The Age today are interesting and may create a little more demand. Intriguing that the Toyota Fortuner article beside the Heritage 90 article lists just as many 'issues', including rubbish like poor cornering ability for both! These motoring journos clearly drive too many Supercars and German sedans, believing that all vehicles should be benchmarked against them. Bizzare. Apart from their shape both the Fortuner and the Defender do basically the same thing, cost about the same amount and have similar issues according to the journo, though I think he also misses many important aspects of both vehicles.
It will be very interesting to see the market prices of both in ten years time.

Do you know if the Asian King will be dropping Defenders off in Melbourne? - I suspect my 90 is on the same ship. My dealer is next to useless - they know nothing!

The Wallenius Wilhelmsen tracking system will show you the route it will take.

https://www.2wglobal.com/webapps?fra...uickSearchPage

Put in your VIN in the Cargo ID field to search. You can then click on the voyage number which will show you where the boat stops and the approximate schedule.

And here is a Prixcar tracking page that was found on Google to help track the car once the boat lands. Enter your VIN and you can see as the car gets delivered from the boat to Prixcar and then the shipping status between Prixcar and the dealer.

[E2 - Global Vehicle Tracker]

There isn't anything more informative as to where the car is at with Prixcar, but at least this shows you where it's at.

Thanks davisshannon, using you link, the Asia King voyage has the following ports:

Bremerhaven 16/12/2015
Zeebrugge 17/12/2015
Southhampton 18/12/2015
Port Elizabeth 04/1/2016
Durban 05/1/2016
Fremantle ETA 16/1/2016
Melbourne ETA 21/1/2016
Port Kembla ETA 23/1/2016
Brisbane ETA 25/1/2016

I was away last week on a fishing trip when I had a missed call from Southerns saying that my Defender was arriving earlier than expected. Fingers crossed it has made this ship. My notional build date was the 18/12/2015 so it might have just sneaked on to this one.

Cheers
Ron

If you've found the voyage based on your VIN then it should be on that ship. Mine was accurate and then it took from the 24th of December until the 8th of January to arrive at the dealer (Christmas and New Years I'm sure caused delays). Once your ship arrives you can track on the Prixcar tracking site.

My dealer can only tell me that the 90 will arrive January 22 - they say they won't know the VIN until it arrives - I think they just cannot be arsed getting it for me - go figure!
But thanks to you guys I at least know where the new truck is.

Just found out mine's on the Asian King too. Due Brisbane 25/1 and delivery to Tamworth on 5/2. About a month sooner than I expected.

Cheers
Jon

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Originally Posted by jon3950

Just found out mine's on the Asian King too. Due Brisbane 25/1 and delivery to Tamworth on 5/2. About a month sooner than I expected.

Cheers
Jon

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Yep, mine is a month earlier than I was initially quoted too. I'm not sure if this was to account for worst case scenarios, but it seems like an enormous variance for a date that should be fairly well known. Oh well, at least it isn't a month late!

Looks like I missed this boat... Got my VIN number today and it is not showing up in the lookup. The ETA to the dealer is now 19th Feb for me. So it will be another month of watching other people's defenders arriving.:angel:

Cheers
Ron

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Originally Posted by Glenpick

My dealer can only tell me that the 90 will arrive January 22 - they say they won't know the VIN until it arrives - I think they just cannot be arsed getting it for me - go figure!
But thanks to you guys I at least know where the new truck is.

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VIN?..I think that is known as soon as production commences.
Pickles.