Thread: Won’t be retro...

And i think im in love

Love that grey with the red brakes, clear rear lights, red front recovery point, roof rails, snorkel and finally some good tyres: Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs.

Marcel & Victoria Koning on Instagram: “The ** NEW ** Defender at Goodwood Festival of Speed - Marcel takes us on a quick walk around. Still heavily camouflaged but looking ... ??…”
Dan Ives on Instagram: “Finally, a look at the new (disguised) Land Rover!
#landrover #defender #newdefender #festivalofspeed2019 #festivalofspeed”

Nick Pritchard on Instagram: “Love the look of the new @landrover_uk #defender; looks amazing, can’t wait till the launch! @fosgoodwood #landrover #landroverdefender…”

Chrissy Hughes on Instagram: “Today’s the day! We got this! #fos #festivalofspeed #jaguarlandrover #defender #tusk #work #events #goodwood #evoque #discoverysport…”

Jack Coupe on Instagram: “New defender at #goodwoodfos

#landrover #defender2020”

Interesting they chose to drive a left hand drive Defender around Good wood.

Some more closeups from another forum.

And a great walk around video

YouTube

That walk around is a cracker! Looks great!

Interesting that they chose to display it with 20's. Perhaps that indicates they know a lot of the market will buy for the street and like the look with complete with big red calipers. I would have preferred to see 18's in the same OD. Apart from that I like the look. It has good proportions and vertical sides and rear will make for a huge load area. The guards are not too wide and hopefully will stay in similar proportion when the camo comes off. Cheers

Just thinking out loud
I realise the “Tusk” vehicles is just a solid marketing plan as opposed to real world testing

BUT let’s say a few weeks into Tusk
Some issue arose like the EPB is flakey and prone to failure.
Does the onsite LR tech just fix it clear the codes and instruct the drivers not to use it
OR
Do they stop production and redesign it?


What I’m getting at is once this thing is released....

Will the forums be deadly silent with no activity in the LR2020 section
Or will there be a bunch of annoying little things going on, fixes and WTF were they thinking???

I guess what I’m getting at is it too much to think with all the cloak and dagger BS that has been going on for years that for a first time ever LR release a market ready product???

I guess we will know by Christmas

S

Originally Posted by roverrescue

Just thinking out loud
I realise the “Tusk” vehicles is just a solid marketing plan as opposed to real world testing

BUT let’s say a few weeks into Tusk
Some issue arose like the EPB is flakey and prone to failure.
Does the onsite LR tech just fix it clear the codes and instruct the drivers not to use it
OR
Do they stop production and redesign it?


What I’m getting at is once this thing is released....

Will the forums be deadly silent with no activity in the LR2020 section
Or will there be a bunch of annoying little things going on, fixes and WTF were they thinking???

I guess what I’m getting at is it too much to think with all the cloak and dagger BS that has been going on for years that for a first time ever LR release a market ready product???

I guess we will know by Christmas

S

I would say at all the test locations all over the world they have been sending the data and their real world experience back to headquarters for analysis and will make any needed last minute changes before public production begins.. but for sure there will be niggling issues maybe even some big ones for people to talk about

It’s a Land Rover,,, regardless of how it works,, well or not,, designed, well or not,, it’ll be bagged out in the usual fashion by all and sundry.