L R Defender

[Sanqhar]

Anyone seen the side view of the new Defender.  Not very original, they just copied the Yeti!

 

https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/land-rover-defender-price-specs-and-release-date-1819.

 

Tom.  

[Ootohere]

As the Yeti concept had just copied the JImny from 10 years before,  and production of it is still going.

Edited 7 December, 2017 by AwaoffSki

[octyal]

That's not the new Defender, that is an image of the DC100 concept from years ago that was dropped by JLR (although may be revisited as another niche sub brand life style vehicle at some point) Only select JLR employees know what the new one looks like, and from what I have been told, it is relatively faithful to the original in terms of exterior design, although the chassis will be based on the Discovery family chassis.

 

Mules have been spotted with Disco Sport bodies on  testing the running gear around Eastnor and Coventry (similar trick to the Maestro van bodied freelander mules back in 1996/7)

[Sanqhar]

The article, written recently says:

 

”Expect the Defender to resemble the DC100 concept Land Rover”

 

Tom

[Ootohere]

Recently written article with errors.

The DC100 was first shown back in 2011 not 2015.

 

Toyota FJ Cruiser, fugly but designed and built before the Yeti Concept or the DC100 Concept.

Edited 7 December, 2017 by AwaoffSki

[Coops]

3 hours ago, octyal said:

Mules have been spotted with Disco Sport bodies on  testing the running gear around Eastnor and Coventry (similar trick to the Maestro van bodied freelander mules back in 1996/7)

 

[weasley]

Having read an industry analysis bulletin, it seems that there are two cars being mooted.  The one shown above, the DC100 concept, is expected to become a sub-Defender (L860) model (perhaps a Defender Sport?), whilst the actual full-fat Defender (L663) may well use those design cues but will be bigger.  L663 is expected in 2019 whilst the L860 is hinted at mid-2021.

[Ootohere]

Hopefully before 2021 Ineos / Jim Ratcliffe will have a real On / Offroad 4x4 type vehicle in production with or without any assistance from JLR / TATA.

http://projektgrenadier.com 

Edited 8 December, 2017 by AwaoffSki

[Ryeman]

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/land-rover-defender-be-built-slovakia

[Stubod]

I find it more worrying that 2.5 billion pounds is now only worth  3.2 million dollars!!!....is that because of Brexit?

Edited 1 May, 2019 by Stubod

[Ootohere]

JLR are going to have the same issues as BMW / Audi and others are having in Hungary after putting more and more manufacturing into the countries with lower wages and educated and trained and qualified workers.

There are not unlimited numbers of these highly trained workers, certainly not that are going to have the pith taken out of them.

 

The Governments like in Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic and others welcome them in but the Unions and population / workers are not stupid and are not going to keep accepting poor wages and conditions compared to the German / Austrian, Italian, French employees. 

 

A little strike action hits hard as it did recently in Hungary and the wages have to go up.

South Korean Tyre manufacturers found out the hard was, and so did Canadian companies.

 

 

Edited 1 May, 2019 by Skoffski