Thread: Won’t be retro...

If LR has a future it has to appeal to and sell bucket loads of vehicles to North America. I don't like 'Americanized' (see what I did there) vehicles but LR seem to have retained its British style in the main.

Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

If LR has a future it has to appeal to and sell bucket loads of vehicles to North America. I don't like 'Americanized' (see what I did there) vehicles but LR seem to have retained its British style in the main.

Cheers

I agree.
They will apply all sorts of spin aimed at specific markets. I don't need to agree with the North American spin as it is not aimed at me. They will introduce flavours over there that will not appeal or not be available here. I await to see what market they aim at in OZ, how they sell it & what is available here. I would suspect that it will be different to the US.

Diesels aren't popular in the US and no D3/4 were sold with them so i'd imagine that will continue.

Originally Posted by ozscott

If LR has a future it has to appeal to and sell bucket loads of vehicles to North America. I don't like 'Americanized' (see what I did there) vehicles but LR seem to have retained its British style in the main.

Cheers

Detroit has got lazy with their SUVs/Utes due to no competition, chicken tax.

Hopefully landrover wakes them up and finds a way to work around the tax. Cheaper production definitely helps.

It has to be a huge success in the three biggest markets - the USA, China and the EU. The rest, including us, is just icing on the cake.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

I like the US specific wrap.

I have a feeling these pics are from original shoot when it was first "seen" in America with the video.

Hopefully we'll see new stuff in next few days.

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Very interesting as are the comments, having said that, there are no JLR quotes so might just be another leak at this stage?

JLR dont need BMW 4cyl Petrol/Diesel and 6cyl petrol they have just designed their own.

Without checking if bmw do a diesel 6 hybrid, it could be about that, along with the BMW V8 Petrol & Diesel.

Imagine if they had used the current shape of the Defender for the new model as a starting point. Then adapt it to the technology they want to use. That is what I would have done.