Thread: Won’t be retro...

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I reckon there will be a really wide range of options and variants, to win as many sales as possible off the platform.

Yes to maximize sales.

Defender sport possibility

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Must've hired some reporters from Womens Day or The Enquirer! Show an old photo, and fill the page with fluff, with no basis whatsoever.

Originally Posted by donh54

Must've hired some reporters from Womens Day or The Enquirer! Show an old photo, and fill the page with fluff, with no basis whatsoever.

Actually the photo and its caption make sense, and the model would make sense based on JLR's history with RR sport, Disco sport..is it that hard to believe that a Defender Sport will happen?

Originally Posted by blackrangie

Defender sport possibility

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Behind a Paywall.

Originally Posted by blackrangie

Actually the photo and its caption make sense, and the model would make sense based on JLR's history with RR sport, Disco sport..is it that hard to believe that a Defender Sport will happen?

Any magazine article that begins with the words "Sources suggest ..." means that everything that follows is either (a) speculation, or (b) bull****.

The illustration accompanying the "article" (I use the term very loosely) was of the original DC100 concept car, shown at Frankfurt in 2011.

In a Drive.com.au article (still not the best source for truthful motoring news, but at least being attributed to someone supposedly "in the know" at JLR, in (I believe) November 2012, Stephen Ottley stated the following:

Land Rover has gone back to the drawing board for its next-generation Defender after mixed reviews of its radical DC100 concept.

The brand's global PR manager, Dave Roynon, admits some people hated the DC100, launched in 2011, and says the new Defender won't look like it.

"We're doing lots of market research, we're doing lots of studies," Roynon says. "We did DC100 to see what the reception was ... It's a bit of a Marmite [England's answer to Vegemite] car, some people loved it, some people hated it. I loved it as a styling exercise, but is it something that would replace Defender? No."

Article link: Land Rover backs down on Defender

As I stated earlier, Just Autos' Mike Vousden used an outdated image, and basically wrote something that can't be attributed to anybody at JLR.

I would assume that the President of the USA (amongst others) would probably term it as "Fake News" and I would have to agree!

Originally Posted by donh54

Any magazine article that begins with the words "Sources suggest ..." means that everything that follows is either (a) speculation, or (b) bull****.

The illustration accompanying the "article" (I use the term very loosely) was of the original DC100 concept car, shown at Frankfurt in 2011.

In a Drive.com.au article (still not the best source for truthful motoring news, but at least being attributed to someone supposedly "in the know" at JLR, in (I believe) November 2012, Stephen Ottley stated the following:

Land Rover has gone back to the drawing board for its next-generation Defender after mixed reviews of its radical DC100 concept.

The brand's global PR manager, Dave Roynon, admits some people hated the DC100, launched in 2011, and says the new Defender won't look like it.

"We're doing lots of market research, we're doing lots of studies," Roynon says. "We did DC100 to see what the reception was ... It's a bit of a Marmite [England's answer to Vegemite] car, some people loved it, some people hated it. I loved it as a styling exercise, but is it something that would replace Defender? No."

Article link: Land Rover backs down on Defender

As I stated earlier, Just Autos' Mike Vousden used an outdated image, and basically wrote something that can't be attributed to anybody at JLR.

I would assume that the President of the USA (amongst others) would probably term it as "Fake News" and I would have to agree!

Sorry, I see no problem with the article or the picture or the caption under the picture.

At no time are they saying that the DC100 lives, read the caption again, "previewed here by the Concept"

Good journalists never realease thier sources if the info is not public.

Also the info seems logical

Have no intention and getting in it too any further discussion if this is true or not, merely pointing out that this could be another piece of the Defender puzzle all big picture Defender and defender sport.

Defender
Defender SVO
Defender SVX
Defender Sport

At least it doesn't look like a RR,which makes it different from everything else they produce.

Hopefully they have at last realised that making a heap of different models,all looking very similar doesn't do the brand any favours.

The average Jo,who is the targeted buyer would have no idea which model is which,particularly from a distance.