Thread: Won’t be retro...

Originally Posted by SBD4

The only pic you can really take anything from is the one with the rock sliders (if that's what they are and not just steps). It'll be good if they are making that sort of stuff as it will mean aftermarket will have an easier development path because the vehicle will already have a place to bolt the stuff on.

Having said to ignore the renders, did you notice the unusual line the panel gap takes between the bonnet and the front guards?

Plenty to be seen mate, they gave us this pic to do just this.

If you haven't already i reccomend jumping on a desktop and play around in high res, opened my eyes.

Yeah just looking at that

And i got excited thinking it was 275/65/18,which would have been not a bad size,readily available,high load rating and various brands.

Lets hope they aren't doing what LR love to do and that is have some silly,hard to get expensive tyre size.

At least 18" is a start

Originally Posted by blackrangie

Plenty to be seen mate, they gave us this pic to do just this.

Yeah just looking at that

It's a departure from the clamshell bonnets on every other model. Clamshell is good for shedding water (deep)...not sure I like the idea of not having one.

Originally Posted by scarry

And i got excited thinking it was 275/65/18,which would have been not a bad size,readily available,high load rating and various brands.

Lets hope they aren't doing what LR love to do and that is have some silly,hard to get expensive tyre size.

At least 18" is a start

Heres a few at just under 2inches increase assuming moab is biggest tyre released.

Originally Posted by scarry

And i got excited thinking it was 275/65/18,which would have been not a bad size,readily available,high load rating and various brands.

Lets hope they aren't doing what LR love to do and that is have some silly,hard to get expensive tyre size.

At least 18" is a start

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing after the 19"s on the D4 fiasco.

but there's really no need to worry, the later vehicles easily accommodate larger tyres now. I see no reason for the Defender to be any different.

Originally Posted by SBD4

It's a departure from the clamshell bonnets on every other model. Clamshell is good for shedding water (deep)...not sure I like the idea of not having one.

Water is one thing im certainly not concerned about with modern LR's they seem to take it very seriously, almost unusually seriously, hopefully we can throw a snorkel on the side intake and go for more than 900mm.

It may be a modern take on the current defender bonnet that was also in from the guards?.

well, on that note, the render doesn't have any side vent so a snorkel would be out which means I'd like the clamshell back. Anyway, I really think all these smaller details are deliberately rubbed out/changed so you can't get to to the real facts. The general shape? maybe there's something there.

Originally Posted by blackrangie

Water is one thing im certainly not concerned about with modern LR's they seem to take it very seriously, almost unusually seriously, hopefully we can throw a snorkel on the side intake and go for more than 900mm.

It may be a modern take on the current defender bonnet that was also in from the guards?.

Originally Posted by SBD4

well, on that note, the render doesn't have any side vent so a snorkel would be out which means I'd like the clamshell back. Anyway, I really think all these smaller details are deliberately rubbed out/changed so you can't get to to the real facts. The general shape? maybe there's something there.

The render is wrapped, get on the high res mate, every pilot has em, matches the shape of snorkel where hits body too.