Thread: Won’t be retro...

Two years!! That is a crazy long time.

A DPF is for particulates. All diesels have them. Ad Blue is for NOx. Completely different for different things.

Originally Posted by scarry

Spartan,affordable,old styled?

Solid axles,no electronics,16" rims.....

Sounds like my kind of vehicle.

Actually,sounds just like a 70 series.


They are dreaming aren't they,another load of garbage.

I would say it would be a bare bones pov pack fender, if it is true.

My pick would be svx sv8 or tdv8.

For people not happy about the new defender not being a carbon copy of old, one, the old one still exists, with solid axles, no electronics and 16s! Go buy one, or keep it. Lets also not forget Landrover have the reborn program so you can still get a "new" version of any Landrover you want

The price of a reborn anything from LR is absurd. I know it exists in the UK but do you know for sure you can even buy them here (with warranty). The smart money for second hand vehicles is looking more and more like D2 if you are looking for cost effective all round performance with relative simplicity and better stock running gear than the current Defender.

Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

The price of a reborn anything from LR is absurd. I know it exists in the UK but do you know for sure you can even buy them here (with warranty). The smart money for second hand vehicles is looking more and more like D2 if you are looking for cost effective all round performance with relative simplicity and better stock running gear than the current Defender.

Cheers

The point was, There will always be good condition defenders in Australia for sale second-hand, or I'm sure if you were happy to pay enough you can get a Reborn one.
Or you can pay someone in Australia to restore 1 which would be cheaper like Les Richmond. Plenty of options to keep them alive for a very long time. No need to stress about the new one not being exactly the same. Land Rover have provided the Defender for us for many many years even when it was not financially viable to do so, I think it's pretty wrong to hate on Land Rover for not producing a carbon copy when they could have scrapped the defender all together.
They brought one out as a concept and it was pretty ugly and respected Land Rover Defender fans enough to go back to the drawing board completely and bring out something that no doubt most current defender owners that want more comfort and tourability will appreciate, and many others that would never buy a defender because it was too rough and unsafe will now get one. They are trying to make something that will keep most happy, but not all.

I'm still keen to see what they produce. In a lot of ways its exciting just from the standpoint of an LR tragic.

Now whether I would stump up my hard earned...very much another question and one that I expect I would be in a better position to answer in say 2023 after a few have been shaken down for a few years.

Cheere

I don’t think anyone wants a carbon copy Defender.

...We just want a fair dinkum new model.

At the same time, what many dont want to see is a carbon copy D4 masquerading as the new Defender.

Originally Posted by Zeros

I don’t think anyone wants a carbon copy Defender.

...We just want a fair dinkum new model.

At the same time, what many dont want to see is a carbon copy D4 masquerading as the new Defender.

True, although I believe you are thinking exactly what the mule camo designers want you to think.

Originally Posted by blackrangie

True, although I believe you are thinking exactly what the mule camo designers want you to think.

...what are you imagining it might look like?