Thread: Well the spare tyre is in the right spot,

Originally Posted by blackrangie

First vid?

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Looking at that video, I don’t think the shape is disguised at all. It looks like a short wheelbase D4 with a few different styling cues. But no spare wheel on the back of that one.

The disruptive pattern covers must becoming off soon!

These are the best shots I’ve seen so far: New Land Rover Defender Spied Again, This Time In SWB 90 Trim

It looks to be quite compact and has a very high hip-line / small side glass.

If you look closely at some of the photos near the A-pillar, you can see that the door windows go much lower (in the gap where there is no cladding), and that the edges/sides of the bonnet will be lower also.

In some photos it looked like they gaffa taped light panels to the outside before the vinyl wrap went on.

Originally Posted by Zeros

Looking at that video, I don’t think the shape is disguised at all. It looks like a short wheelbase D4 with a few different styling cues. But no spare wheel on the back of that one.

The disruptive pattern covers must becoming off soon!

These are the best shots I’ve seen so far: New Land Rover Defender Spied Again, This Time In SWB 90 Trim

It looks to be quite compact and has a very high hip-line / small side glass.

Pretty much the whole car has fake padded panels over the panels underneath, roof, bonnet, doors etc. Its extremely disguised and the wrap only adds to it.
A certain country will be having a hard time trying to copy it from the mules, however they have probably hacked the IP by now anyway.

100% yes

Originally Posted by rar110

In some photos it looked like they gaffa taped light panels to the outside before the vinyl wrap went on.

They haven't obscured the rego in on of the photos and if you look it up on the UK DVLA is was registered in Oct 2018 and has 0g emissions! I guess that might be because its a prototype but interesting ..

Originally Posted by garrycol

They are trying to disguise the vehicle by painting it is a disruptive paint scheme that is not disruptive at all and stands out like ...........

No they are not trying to disguise it. Just take a look at the hashtags on the side of all the pics on the cars seen so far. This is all about pre-release marketing, called teasers, which are commonplace happenings in the industry. If it's all going to plan the dealer networks globally will be getting their pre-release information in the first quarter of 2019. But only if the release will be within the next six months or so.Well that is how other manufacturers work so can't see it being different with LR?

Oh yes and they are also doing some road testing along the way of course

Rob

Originally Posted by andyh

They haven't obscured the rego in on of the photos and if you look it up on the UK DVLA is was registered in Oct 2018 and has 0g emissions! I guess that might be because its a prototype but interesting ..

Electric? others have been looked up as diesel, probs testing both