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    New D5

    Was talking with a prominant Landrover principal the other day re: the new D5. He is off to the UK next week to meet with LR and find out more.
    From what he tells me, it is going to be based on the Defender.
    You will be able to order a variety of engine, axle, body configurations & luxury levels, but it will be built on the same chassis.

    LR may not call it a D5 at this stage. It may have a whole new name.

    BTW: The 4.4 TDV8 is most likely coming out first thing next year in the RRS.

    Cheers, Craig

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco4SE View Post
    Was talking with a prominant Landrover principal the other day re: the new D5. He is off to the UK next week to meet with LR and find out more.
    From what he tells me, it is going to be based on the Defender.
    You will be able to order a variety of engine, axle, body configurations & luxury levels, but it will be built on the same chassis.

    LR may not call it a D5 at this stage. It may have a whole new name.

    BTW: The 4.4 TDV8 is most likely coming out first thing next year in the RRS.

    Cheers, Craig
    Just picked up on this thread Craig. 4.4 V8 in the RRS next year...really??? That's exactly what I want to replace my 2010 3.0, but the guys at Barbagallo Land Rover keep telling me the 90 degree V8 won't fit in the RRS engine bay.

    I'd buy one in a heartbeat if it was true.
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    Hi Greg,
    I am seeing my contact this Friday.
    I'll see if I can get any confirmed info out of him re: the 4.4Lt in next years RRS.

    Cheers, Craig

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco4SE View Post

    BTW: The 4.4 TDV8 is most likely coming out first thing next year in the RRS.

    Cheers, Craig
    I don't mean to doubt your sources, however the reason they stopped producing the 3.6TDV8 in the RRS was because they wanted the RR to be the flagship, with the best engine options. Why would you buy a RR when you could have a RRS with the same engine.

    From the people that I know within the company there are/were no plans to put the 4.4TDV8 in the sport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LRTech23 View Post
    I don't mean to doubt your sources, however the reason they stopped producing the 3.6TDV8 in the RRS was because they wanted the RR to be the flagship, with the best engine options. Why would you buy a RR when you could have a RRS with the same engine.

    From the people that I know within the company there are/were no plans to put the 4.4TDV8 in the sport.
    I don't think LR rely on engine options to distinguish between the Sport and the Vogue - if they did there wouldn't be a Supercharged Sport, would there?

    The lack of difference in performance between the 3.0 and the 3.6 in the Sport was the reason for the discontinuation of the TDV8 in the RRS. In the larger Vogue, the 3.0 TDV6 couldn't provide the required performance, hence the 4.4 TDV8. However, it's unlikely the 4.4 would fit in the RRS, and as a new RRS is only round the corner (late 2013), I doubt this donk will ever be put in the current RRS.

    Cheers,

    Gordon

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    Yeah, I was talking to some people today, they said there was no plan for the tdv8 to go back in the sport, partially because of the update and partially because it is the "flagship engine". Their words not mine.

    I've also heard that the new "defender" will be based off the discovery platform. So I guess there's alot of different things up in the air at the moment.

    Seeing as they are going to stop selling the defender in Australia pretty soon because of its lack of safety features I doubt they would base the discovery off the defender.

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    After all that I overlooked the fact that you are probably talking about the new defender. Which would make a lot more sense. Haha

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    Over 3100kg!!!

    Unless that's a mistake, that's extremely heavy.

    [Edit] Forgot to add the official link.

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