klivins

Thats core reason why I keep my old 240 roadworthy. When I cant climb in the 110 because of pain in spine, I use the Volvo! Sorry for offtopic.

frankly, thats offtopic, but Ive found electric adjustable seats annoying, not useful. If I wanted to move, say, passenger seat forward - and fast - I had to wait a minute for it to do its job. Likewise its just a push on a lever to adjust the seat!

says using factory landrover parts. Calipers from some other model? Esp when they say more info and pricing will follow.

You do not need any vehicle with an electric seat, let alone a Defender! Esp, if you plan to go to a*se end of nowhere! But the battery location is silly.

Back in 1979 Mercedes G classe was priced at about 30000 DM in Germany. Quick run thru the inflation calculator - its about 35000 euro in today's money. 10 years later the price were about 60000 DM. About 50000 euro today, adjusted for inflation

I'd like to see it being very, very basic. Like Dacia Logan of 4x4 world. Or like Defender, when it wasnt called Defender, but just 110. It looks though it will be more like G Wagen in size, weight, and appearance.

Will grenadier have any of these 14ish points?

For those who dont need it, nor can afford

That I do not understand, why, if LR needed to build a new factory, could they not make the Defender more utilitarian? Surely, they could sell, say, Defender pick up for much more premium price as a hilux, even for fleet buyers. Yet, they chose to make another Discovery.

A few years ago I found myself in my Def 110 accompanied by a bloke with Disco 3 in rural Russia, Kostroma region, on a very muddy track. The Disco 3 had all bells and whistles, plus much more of aftermarket stuff, and coped with the terrain quite good. In fact, on same occasions it was better than my Def, what had just AT tyres, otherwise - bog standard. It all lasted, until Disco started to fire under the bonnet. We quickly extinguished it, but... Some electronics was fried, and fancy air suspension was nonoperational. With Disco 3 laying flat on its belly it took us next day and a very big tractor, sourced 40 kms away, to get the bloody thing out. 2 more days to get the Disco to the nearest dealer, where it was quoted in excess of 4000 euros...to diagnose! Not to fix, but to diagnose whats wrong with it! If that would have happened to the Defender, well, some replaced wiring later it would have happily continued. And the lesson? No thank you, if I'd need a transport for overland, then no new Defender for me, nor any of other LandRover products. Too much to go wrong.

No idea, will this link work, https://www.facebook.com/TVzebra/videos/2580729962254577/ nor will someone understand it - there is a short recap: New Defender arrived in a dealership in Riga, Latvia, and journalist asks the representative, would he drive the New Defender in the mud? The reply - If I had another 5 milion euros on account, then, yes. The second question - what he would drive in the mud? The response: Dacia Duster:):):) Makes me smile:)

Bollinger looks more than new Defender:) How soon when someone fits 300 tdi in one:)

After watching all the fuss in the cyberspace... I just cant grasp why JLR made yet another 'Chelsea tractor'? They already have plenty of those. They saw the market there - yes, but surely the market also is there for whatever utility companies and farmers use these days - pickups! If they had made Defender a cross of pickup and 4x4, something in size between Suzuki Jimny and Jeep? They had to build new factory, they claim to have made the defender from scratch. They could have made it differently, yet they did not. I have still little hope fotr their commercial lineup, but most probably thats going to be too gizmoed as well.