Top Gear with the new Deefer

[micksta1973]

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qGCzGR-74&feature=youtu.be)

[PhilipA]

Very impressive.
i wonder how the electric brakes are going to go in the longer term though.
The number of RRs and D3 D4s I have seen on Range Rover Club trips with air suspension problems also worries me.
The RR club ended up buying a hawkeye or testbook to take on trips , problems were so prevalent and trip stopping.
I remember one RR sport which had a small bolt holding an air line on on the LH front get loose and drop the side. It was only having the test equipment that enabled them to get going again.
Regards PhilipA
I liked seeing the Himbas again, although the woman was quite shy.

[micksta1973]

There's a few tests that have just come out by Autocar and others.

[RANDLOVER]

I think a few of the journo's from the big publications all went on the same test, which is good so we can hear different view points.

[loanrangie]

I think a few of the journo's from the big publications all went on the same test, which is good so we can hear different view points.

Not really, they are all pretty lame.

[ramblingboy42]

I didn't really notice any different viewpoints.....I think they have all been vetted by Land Rover.....they all sounded the same .....so I gave up looking.

Maybe , just maybe , soon , the things have to arrive in Australia and maybe , just maybe , the local journos might do a proper road test.

I really hope they don't drive them to Dubbo and around a couple of farm roads or the Hay plains and claim they've been offroad.

I wish they could give one to me and let me drive it out and around the areas in SA that I have been going to for 20yrs , fully loaded for several weeks , where bulldust holes sneak up on you and smash the suspension into its stops and the corrugations are so intense the vehicle wont accelerate , you know , the kind of things I have been doing for 20yrs in 3 different vehicles , but they won't do that and it'll be up to us to find out if it's real. No one will test the new Defender like that , like how we will end up driving it , because we have to , to get to the places we love and want to see.

[INter674]

I see that LR are resuming production soon at their UK and Euro sites ..with appropriate social distancing.