Thread: RIP Defender....

Originally Posted by Davo

Except there doesn't seem to be any idea of what the "replacement" will be, and whether or not it would actually be a workhorse some of us would want to buy, or just another plakky box.

Car companies are incredible at keeping secrets. Remember the design time for a new vehicle is in the order of 5 years and very few details are leaked that aren't planned (oops we left a full size rendering on display while inviting journalists in for something completely unrelated).

It generally isn't until the run-out sales plan is known that real information starts "leaking" about the replacement model.

As I'm sure you know, they keep coming up with weird "concept" cars every so often, but nothing more. I think the new one is so secret that not even the executives know it exists!

It's official....
BBC News - Emission rules to end Land Rover Defender production

I don't know what all the fuss is about. We already know what the Defender replacement is...

Originally Posted by Fifth Columnist

It's official....
BBC News - Emission rules to end Land Rover Defender production

Emissions rules in 2020 aren't the reason.

But this quote is what we've been expecting:

JLR's head of products, John Edwards, said the new model would be "instantly recognised" by people who drive the current vehicle but it "won't necessarily be cheap".

Originally Posted by solmanic

I don't know what all the fuss is about. We already know what the Defender replacement is...

Fixed it for you!

Go sell those poxy pumas and tetchy td5s and get yourself a properly robust Landy, it'll survive long enough that the replacement will probably hover!

The Land Rover, the world's longest-serving vehicle, is to cease production after an unequalled run of 67 years. "Production of the iconic and globally recognised Land Rover Defender will cease in December 2015, " Jaguar Land Rover told Telegraph Luxury.

I think this statement could be wrong, I feel they forgot about the Jeep

Originally Posted by Davo

Wow, what a stupid company. So when you want a workhorse, soon it'll be only a Toyota, or a Nissan, or a Ford, or a blah blah blah whatever. Too bad they never really bothered advertising the things or having more than a handful of dealers here. I bet if this modern Land Rover Ltd were farmers, they'd never water or fertilise the orchard they'd inherited and then wonder why nothing ever grew.

The main thing Ive learnt about the car making industry watching what has happened to Land Rover and Jaguar in the past ten? years is that Mr Tata knows a lot more about it than I do.