Thread: Replace a Defender with what?

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

If the G Pro was $90k they would be flying out the door with auto, and lockers. So they are probably about $20k over priced.

Originally Posted by ozscott

Are they really based on Mitsibishi? Based on as in a Chinese take on them or actually using old Mitsubishi presses for chassis etc but still Chinese steel and Chinese copies of chassis, steering etc etc. Really Mitsi and Gr8 Wall shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence. Mitsubishi tend not to fall apart easily...

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You have got to be kidding. Or are you too young to remember Sigma and Magna. Greatest piles of pus ever inflicted on the Australian motorist. I once managed a fleet that had Sigma as rep's cars. Sydney based senior management caught "four cylinder economy" fever and lumbered us with Sigma and Meteor. Rubbish cars, both of them. Then came Magna which should have been sold with a spare transmission, not a spare wheel.

Isuzu mu-x?? Despite what people might think they're a tough little vehicle and built like a truck. They're built to work and they'll happily do it all day long. Just needs a 2 inch lift, decent tyres and bullbar.
The engines are down tuned to run forever, this is typical japanese truck manufacturing mentality and it works, reliable

BigJ I was thinking Pajero and Triton. We are talking 4wds. I am sufficiently aged to recall the buckets of poo you refer to and have driven both when they were newly released

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The OKA may not be ANCAP5 rated but it was Minespec when designed and built.

Maybe one of these could fit the bill sometime in the future.
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The great wall only used mishibishi petrol engine. The diesel engine is developed and manufactured by themselves

In fact the great wall ute is basically a Isuzu d-max.Chassis is the almost same (liscences by Isuzu.....

I probably won't ever drive a great wall but note this, the great wall diesels engine produce more power that the defender 2.2...2.4 td5 and those before...

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Originally Posted by martnH

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

Its prize performance was an unscheduled holiday of three weeks in Broken Hill while waiting for brake parts to be flown in from China. At that stage its total mileage was about the distance from Yass to Broken Hill. Most of the time I have visited my son, the Great Wall is not in evidence, and careful questions indicate it is at the dealer.