Thread: Photos of new Defender

heated seats

you must go joking

Originally Posted by noddy

But why do we have an analogue clock in 2006???

Interestingly enuff Noddy, I have an uncle who is in his late 70's and a master watchmaker. This guy in his time was the experts expert. I had a interesting conversation with him about the difference between analog and digital.

His belief is, (and i agree) that a digital you have to read. An analog u don't. With an analog display (specially clocks) you have a couple of thousand pictures stored in your memory which makes telling the time a shedload quicker. It's a quick glance n make the match in your head. Boeing did some test relating to this subject in the late 70's when a lot of aricraft instruments were moving to LED type readouts. Their findings confirm this theory.

Cheers,

I don't like the dash. It's lost the unique look that only the Defender series and a few old cars have.

It's become Americanised, I'm sorry if I offend anyone saying this but it's just lost something special. It may look like a Defender on the outside the interior however doesn't

Somehting you're not telling us solmaniac?

You seem to know this dash layout pretty well. But everything that you've labeled makes sense (and is good to see), it also fits with land rovers lifestyle branding, although obviously not military or other customers. But the way that it appears to be modular suggests that there may be other options.

Also, I still think that the RH knob on the bottom is a cigy lighter plug, and the LHS one would be heat control, but i've been wrong before

The labelling looks like a pretty good analysis, but I didn't think they could fit airbags to the current firewall set up and wouldn't be able to introduce them till they changed to the LR3 platform. Having said that, nothing stops them introducing the dash a year earlier and then incorporating the airbag in the later chassis.

What's the www.link to these pics?

I just wonder how much the unnecessary crap on the ugly dashboard will up the price?

I cannot see the point of it all, if it ain't broken don't fix it or in this case disect destroy and Americanise it

Originally Posted by Stevo_62

Interestingly enuff Noddy, I have an uncle who is in his late 70's and a master watchmaker. This guy in his time was the experts expert. I had a interesting conversation with him about the difference between analog and digital.

His belief is, (and i agree) that a digital you have to read. An analog u don't. With an analog display (specially clocks) you have a couple of thousand pictures stored in your memory which makes telling the time a shedload quicker. It's a quick glance n make the match in your head. Boeing did some test relating to this subject in the late 70's when a lot of aricraft instruments were moving to LED type readouts. Their findings confirm this theory.

Cheers,

Hear hear

I'd be more than happy with that, dash looks good, outsides always looked good anyway, just as long as they make it so someone 6'4 can drive the damn thing without legs around knees and shoulders touching both drivers and passengers doors!!