The "New" Defender, ...Your Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by tact

I hereby put an END to any and all speculation that LR are not working on a replacement for the old Defender.

Leaked footage of the secret testing and development program is found right here:
http://youtu.be/dif1mYc4wkY

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Ha! Yeah exactly. Land Rover are spending more time on their staging than designing.

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Originally Posted by tact

I hereby put an END to any and all speculation that LR are not working on a replacement for the old Defender. Leaked footage of the secret testing and development program is found right here: Video Link: http://youtu.be/dif1mYc4wkY

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Ha ha ha :) too funny.

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Originally Posted by Babs

Ha ha ha :) too funny.

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I like some of the innovative body styles. And did you see the articulation some designs were getting!!! Love how LR are tapping school children brainpower for this. And an Aussie team won the last event! Aussie kids designing the new defender. How good is that!?

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Originally Posted by tact

I like some of the innovative body styles. And did you see the articulation some designs were getting!!! Love how LR are tapping school children brainpower for this. And an Aussie team won the last event! Aussie kids designing the new defender. How good is that!?

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Ha ha ha :) yes good stuff.

Aussie kids designing a British vehicle in India :D

Actually on another note, I thought the Discovery was made in India apparently not, still British :)

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Originally Posted by Babs

Pat I have to agree with you 100% I absolutely love watching the Camel Trophy series.

I think if you looked up Awesomeness in the Dictionary there should be a photo of a Camel Trophy Land Rover.

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Camel Trophy?......AWESOME,....I've got the DVDs!!
Pickles.

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Originally Posted by Pickles2

Camel Trophy?......AWESOME,....I've got the DVDs!! Pickles.

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I've got a couple of them on VHS somewhere in the shed.

Ha ha ha :) my kids wouldn't even know what VHS is.

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Originally Posted by Babs

Ha ha ha :) yes good stuff.


Actually on another note, I thought the Discovery was made in India apparently not, still British :)

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Brit designed Indian made?

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Originally Posted by Stuart02

Brit designed Indian made?

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British designed, British built, company have Indian owners.

Discos are built in the Solihull factory still.

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Originally Posted by sheerluck

British designed, British built, company have Indian owners. Discos are built in the Solihull factory still.

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Yep and they still will for future, apparently anything built in India will be for local market.

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Originally Posted by 1nando

Sorry Summit but i disagree mate. The American trucks are cheaper to run long term as opposed to the european trucks. In fact most truck and dog combos are American trucks. Nothing works harder than truck and dogs that enter quarrys.

The european trucks usually have a lot more technology, comfort and safety but also cost a lot more and when they break cost twice as much. This is my experience and what i have learned being around trucks.

How this relates to the new defender i dont know. We live in a world where compromise is no longer seen as acceptable. Saftey, pollution and build cost dominate a manufacturers guide lines. Everything has to be built within these guides if they arent they are fased out. I love my Defender, theres nothing like it, wont replace it until it is dead and love driving it......if there is to be a new defender i just hope it is better than any toyota or nissan and does the icon proud.



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I see where your coming from but can't agree, running my own European/American truck experiment at the moment, the defenders are like American trucks, and the European trucks are like the rest of the ute market..
Love the look and all out hammer down performance of my kenworth/western stars... But the volvo/ Mercedes do the job just the same, guys love driving them, and they are seriously over engineered.. Defenders make sense over a 10-20 year period.. Not so much over a lease period.. And that's where the Toyota/ford etc marketing system works..Land Rover need to target that fleet/lease/mining market to get short term volume..