Thread: Replace a Defender with what?

Do they do a troopy or wagon ? Only seen utes

Originally Posted by Zeros

Good point about the auto, plus the standard twin diff locks, rai and tow bar...BUT there doesn't appear to be one in the country, even to test drive. I dropped in to an MB dealer because I was curious and they told me they wouldn't get the Wagon version in without a 10% deposit!

If new Defender does compare to G Prof it would be great, but it seems like the demand for this type of wagon may not be here anymore? Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but it seems very odd. But then I suppose a $30-40k dualcab is a no brainer compared to $80-120k for most buyers. If G Prof was $50k they'd be flying out the door. Hmm

MB are trying to coerce me into upgrading my G and I keep telling them I am only interested if they have G-Prof wagon for me to test drive. You are correct in that there are just NONE around to do this in. I got a call from our closest dealer who had a G-Prof wagon in for delivery to a customer so I got a good sticky-beak but no drive unfortunately. The dealer told me that there are "one or two" doing the rounds of the dealerships and they would call me when it was up our way.

Maybe Land Rover are going to try and match the G-Prof spec. to stay in that segment of the market, but they have a loooooong way to go before I would consider their quality to be anywhere near on par. My G-Wagen is "only" a G350, W463 model not the W461 that the Professional is. Still, the solidity and overall quality of absolutely everything on it is way beyond anything I have seen from Land Rover. Things just don't leak, vibrate or fall off it! And opening and closing the doors on a G-Wagen is better than sex.

Originally Posted by lyonsy

Well if ancap 5 is not needed and his defenders are doing the job why is he replacing or why did he not order 2 new defenders before their production run ended.

Doesn’t the original post mention his customer is asking for ANCAP5?? Hence the need to find a replacement.

Originally Posted by solmanic

MB are trying to coerce me into upgrading my G and I keep telling them I am only interested if they have G-Prof wagon for me to test drive. You are correct in that there are just NONE around to do this in. I got a call from our closest dealer who had a G-Prof wagon in for delivery to a customer so I got a good sticky-beak but no drive unfortunately. The dealer told me that there are "one or two" doing the rounds of the dealerships and they would call me when it was up our way.

Maybe Land Rover are going to try and match the G-Prof spec. to stay in that segment of the market, but they have a loooooong way to go before I would consider their quality to be anywhere near on par. My G-Wagen is "only" a G350, W463 model not the W461 that the Professional is. Still, the solidity and overall quality of absolutely everything on it is way beyond anything I have seen from Land Rover. Things just don't leak, vibrate or fall off it! And opening and closing the doors on a G-Wagen is better than sex.

Intriguing. Thanks Solmanic. Great to hear about your experience of the G on this forum.

I met someone the other day who has a Defender Puma AND a G 350! He likes driving the Defender more...but maybe just placating me 😳

How ow did the G Professional Wagon compare when you saw it, against your 350?

Itvreally is the only competitor giving me hope that the next Defender might be good!

Check out the price for a second hand defender.
I feels like I am a jerk using the defender as an off-road vehicle while someone else would appreciate her way way way more than I do!

Your mate will be much better off just to replace all defenders with a bunch of new great walls utes (probably not 5 stars...)plus extra cash

My son's next door neighbour has a Great Wall. After his experience, I don't think I could sleep if I suggested one of them!

Originally Posted by bblaze

What about a team of draught horse and a good drey, wasn't many place they couldn't go, good fuel ecomeny, good ground clearance with not much under there to snag
cheers
blaze

Not as silly as it sounds. My grandfather did the Winton-Boulia and return mail run weekly from 1908 with a two horse light wagonette pulling a modified sulky to carry feed for the horses. This was in the Federation drought after Cobb & Co relinquished the contract because of lack of feed. The "roads" then were no more than ruts across the landscape. The family did this run with horses until 1918 when they bought two Buick fours. Into the 1940's when the tracks were impassable due to wet weather on the black soil plains they used horses and a light wagonette to get the mails through.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

My son's next door neighbour has a Great Wall. After his experience, I don't think I could sleep if I suggested one of them!

How about Foton Tunland. It has a Cummins engine. It's also dirt cheap (well for its size....

If your son's next door neighbor love that great wall the way we love our defender, there will be no complaints whatsoever.....