Ineos Grenadier, do you reckon it'll take off?

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Originally Posted by one_iota

I did a quick calculation using the Reserve Bank's inflation calculator to determine what my now departed 2008 Defender cost in today's dollars.

It cost me $50000 new and I added stuff (as you do) like a bull bar lets say another $15000 so $65000. if I was to add rear locker add say another $5000. so a total cost to me of $70000 in 2008 dollars.

The Defender cost me close to $106.000 in today's money.

Makes the Grenadier and the L663 Defender look like better value considering what you get for your extra dollars.

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I am sure the new one will depreciate a lot more than the old one.

Holly crap.... I figured "a thread about that french 4wd this could be interesting reading".... 'Cos who in there right mind would buy a crappy french car, let alone a 4wd made in france..... Wow ... 170pages of messages [bigrolf] [bigrolf] They are either really good or really crap ..... But I don't have time to read 170 pages and find out [bighmmm]

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Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Holly crap.... I figured "a thread about that french 4wd this could be interesting reading".... 'Cos who in there right mind would buy a crappy french car, let alone a 4wd made in france..... Wow ... 170pages of messages [bigrolf] [bigrolf] They are either really good or really crap ..... But I don't have time to read 170 pages and find out [bighmmm]

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They are ok, and probably getting better if you've got the budget for a "premium niche brand". Who may have pretty limited support.

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Originally Posted by Tombie

A new Defender is literally a beefed up, now OTA updated Discovery 4 with some design cues to the old.

D4s are proving incredibly resilient (ok some 3.0l aren’t) but the body, suspension and basic electro/mechanical are holding together just fine.

I can remember when I purchased my Tomb Raider TD5 seeing multitudes of them in the workshop having niggles and problems rectified. Now nobody thinks twice about a few maintenance items and off they go.

My D4 as an example is about to roll 230k, its total maintenance bill would be sub $15k for its entire life.

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Hi mate,

I have a new Defender. This week I clocked over 163,000km and have had zero issues. But the traditionalists don’t want to hear that.

Cheers,
GG