Thread: Australian Defenders?

you'll find a few guys have theirs already ordered on here

And don't worry about the white roof. 5 know it does not look as good, I have it on a 2001 Extreme that is dark metalic green. But on a hot day with a decent window tint your sure appreciate the practical colour on top.

Originally Posted by nornalup

And don't worry about the white roof. 5 know it does not look as good, I have it on a 2001 Extreme that is dark metalic green. But on a hot day with a decent window tint your sure appreciate the practical colour on top.

I have a white roof on my otherwise blue 110, and don't really like it there either. If I got a new Defender, it would be grey or silver, and I think the white roof would look even worse. Plus, I'm hoping the new Defender has Aircon that actually gets the cab cool, so it would be less of an issue than with the current cars. (Though I'll confess I didn't even think of the climate here as a possible upside of the roof).

Does anyone know why they do it though? I can't imagine it's for the climate...

Will also be intersting to see if the new model is offered in the same 3 trim options as the UK ones, or whether we get an Xtreme again?

i like the white roof's allways have and up until recently in the uk all the defenders had white roofs

the best thing about a white roof and can tell you this from experience

when you smash your roof in on a tree like we did and smashed all the alpine window you can just get another roof to replace and dont have to worry about matching the colours up

when we smashed in the roof of the 90 including the alpine window it was actually more expensive to replace the alpine window than it was to put a second hand roof on and being white it was a straight swap

Originally Posted by dullbird

i like the white roof's allways have and up until recently in the uk all the defenders had white roofs

I vaguely remember seeing somewhere it had to do with where they were built....I remember the older Defenders in the UK had white roofs, but can't remember seeing a TD5 with one....

As for crashing them...well, I was going to try not to!

Originally Posted by jik22

OK, on the slight chance I might be allowed a Defender on a corporate lease scheme (should porove interesting if they get me one and see the state it will be in by the first service, not to mention all the extras it will likely have gained)

See if you can build those into the lease. Some lease companies will allow accessories, especially bull bars, tow bars, etc. perhaps even long range tanks.

Ron

so whats an Extreme in the UK?

is there a comparable model?

According to Austral in Brisbane the first batch of 07 Defenders will be August build arriving in September. They say that they'll have a demonstrator on the floor then as well and are assembling a list of all those wanting a test drive.They also said you just have to request a colour matched roof if you don't want a white one.The Xtreme spec. is half-way between the UK County and XS spec. Basically we get a County spec. without carpet heated seats heated front windshield and leather seat inserts.