Thread: Some better spy shots at last!

Meccano cars are dead, get over it.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Meccano cars are dead, get over it.

One thing I'm not is a Lemming , I've never had a car that everyone else wants . Looking forward to driving my next Meccano Set.

Originally Posted by goingbush

One thing I'm not is a Lemming , I've never had a car that everyone else wants . Looking forward to driving my next Meccano Set.

You had a defender, and as it seems, that's what everyone wants

Originally Posted by goingbush

Better looking (insert vomit emoticon here), Fine if you like the generic Blobs that all 4x4's have become !

I'll take Rivets thanks, Here is my next new car . funnily enough looks more Defender than the next Defender .

JLR miss out on my money, I don't know the price of these but I'll happily shell over 50% on top of whatever the 2020 Defender is going for to get one.

This is the worst looking car I've ever seen.
Why wouldn't you just put an electric motor in a used Defender? Would be way less money and probably better.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Better looking (insert vomit emoticon here), Fine if you like the generic Blobs that all 4x4's have become !

I'll take Rivets thanks, Here is my next new car . funnily enough looks more Defender than the next Defender .

JLR miss out on my money, I don't know the price of these but I'll happily shell over 50% on top of whatever the 2020 Defender is going for to get one.

Mate, that thing is ugly as, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess

Originally Posted by goingbush

Better looking (insert vomit emoticon here), Fine if you like the generic Blobs that all 4x4's have become !

I'll take Rivets thanks, Here is my next new car . funnily enough looks more Defender than the next Defender .

JLR miss out on my money, I don't know the price of these but I'll happily shell over 50% on top of whatever the 2020 Defender is going for to get one.

Land rovers old and new stand out from the crowd big time,defenders, disco(new one needs number plate centering kit), rr, evoque, velar, sport..they all look way better than the competitors and perform better..blobs nah...new nissan patrol in stock form is pretty blobby imo, after bars n lift and a staino snorkel its not to bad.

Perhaps worth pointing out that, like the Defender, this car has flat, near vertical glass - exactly what is needed in a country where keeping cool is a major issue over most of the country, especially when the vehicle is parked in the sun.

Of course, it is a quite unsuitable colour, but that is a lot easier to change than the angle of the glass!

I can hear the responses - "thats what airconditioning is for!", but airconditioning does little to improve the lot of the car's interior and that of anything left in the car while parked, for many people, in the sun, for at least eight hours a day.

The temperature here has reached maxima of 38-42C every day since well before Christmas, and the same sort of temperatures or worse would have been encountered over the vast majority of the country - including substantial parts of major metropolitan centres over this period. That is the temperature in a Stevenson shield, or in the shade - and most cars are not parked in the shade. And we haven't reached the hottest month of the summer yet!

JD has hit on the reason I would want that butt ugly Bollinger B1 , and not a new Electric Defender .

Also it's Utilitarian & Practical, it has a other attributes of the old Defender , the Roof & , door tops & Doors are removable . Its modular .

Unlike a Defender it has Portal axles & Diff Locks standard ,

Rear load area has a 1200 wide between arches so can carry sheets of plywood flat on the floor & unlike any other car ever can load full length items right through from the front opening bonnet to the rear tailgate.

Electrifying an Old Defender is a damn good option. But theres not a snowballs chance in hell I'll be buying a New Defender. ( if I electrify anything else it will be my Iveco 4x4.)

And in my opinion, despite everyone falling in love with the shape of clone blobs, I think the Bollinger actually looks bloody good.