Thread: another DC100

Land Rover Dilutes The Iconic Defender | Autopia | Wired.com

from the above article - entitled : Land Rover dilutes the iconic Defender

"We never thought it was possible, but Land Rover has taken one of the most badass go-anywhere vehicles in the history of forever and made it cute.

The venerable Defender, a vehicle perfectly suited to chasing down wildebeest, crossing deserts and overthrowing banana republics, has been re-imagined as “an active expression of freedom and leisure.” In other words, just the thing for cruising to the shopping mall....

....It’s all very cool. It’s all very modern. And it’s so unfortunate that it’s all contained within a vehicle that looks like the Honda Element, when Landie could have just as easily packed it all into, well, the Defender."






And this from Jalopnik http://jalopnik.com/5860226/land-rov...e-new-defender

"...The yellow car you see here is the Land Rover DC100 Sport. "An active expression of freedom and leisure." Or, as we like to call it, the Land Rover designed to be driven by teenage girls...

...Because what you need for serious off-roading is a bunch of complicated, prone-to-failure electronic ****les, Land Rover has loaded both cars with all sorts of adjectives like automatic, intelligent and next-generation. Wade Aid, for instance, isn't that cute boy in Chemistry class, it's a sonar beacon deployed to measure the depth of water crossings. Teenage girls in Florida may actually need such a device while driving to or from their parents' McMansion after a hurricane...

...And because four-wheel drive is, like, such a bummer, Driveline Disconnect will decouple the rear axel when you're just doing non-Land Rover things in order to improve fuel economy. Don't worry, we hear the system has been designed so it can be fixed using a rock and a coconut by someone with only minimal training in Elephant husbandry.
Styling cues like short overhangs front and rear are designed to make the DCs stand out in parking lots full of other over-designed, function-free, vanity utility vehicles.



Obviously the LA Times on the other hand, gets has done its research - its actually read the press release (propoganda) and can say this with confidence

"...Luckily for McGovern, reaction has been overwhelmingly positive..." - http://www.latimes.com/business/auto...,5303247.story

Looks fine from the side,,