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5 hours ago, Ed Poore said:
- I've got some L322 seats fitted to mind and don't have an issue with them. OK they're a bit heavier than standard but they are a damn sight more comfortable.
I have come across a genuine use for them though - when I had my L322 my sister used to use it as well and when she's driven a car I physically can't get into it so have to faff around with the seat from outside just in order to get in. By using different keys the car set itself up for which ever key unlocked the car and voila no issue.
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!
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5 hours ago, BogMonster said:
What's so clever about that? There are factory 18" rims aren't there? I thought the steels were 18s.
says using factory landrover parts. Calipers from some other model? Esp when they say more info and pricing will follow.
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6 hours ago, paime said:
How do you jump start another vehicle with it? What do you do when you have a battery failure in the a*se end of nowhere and you can't move your electric seat back to swap your battery?
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.
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13 hours ago, Red90 said:
They used to be cheaper than that before Mercedes lost their way.
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
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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.
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Will grenadier have any of these 14ish points?
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10 hours ago, Anderzander said:
How would you rewrite that for the new car?
For those who dont need it, nor can afford
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7 hours ago, Retroanaconda said:
I'm not a fan of the side storage boxes, and the front end looks 'odd' to me with the strange perforated panels lower down. Other than that it looks very capable and about right for what they are evolving their range into. I'd have one if money was no object.
Remember that despite the marketing they were never trying to build something for the market that the old utility Land Rover was for. They simply cannot compete there against the other much bigger players and they can make more money at the premium end where volume of sales is a smaller part of the picture. Engineering wise it is adequate for 95% of the 'off road' driving that actually happens in the developed world, just like all the Jap pickups out there with independent front suspension and cart springs on the back.
The commercial variants will be interesting to see, dependent on pricing of course. Fleet buyers can get a Hilux for £20k - so the Land Rover will always be a premium product.
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.
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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.
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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:)
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Bollinger looks more than new Defender:) How soon when someone fits 300 tdi in one:)
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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.
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- I've got some L322 seats fitted to mind and don't have an issue with them. OK they're a bit heavier than standard but they are a damn sight more comfortable.
Thoughts and musings on the new defender
in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)
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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.