New Defender colour scheme - brilliant or terrible?

[FridgeFreezer]

Saw this online so now you have to as well

[Stellaghost]

Have to say I quite like that

Regards Stephen

[Happyoldgit]

Not a Defender but I prefer this as seen locally last night…

 

[elbekko]

9 hours ago, FridgeFreezer said:

Apart from the wheels, that's rather nice.

[Retroanaconda]

Better than the 75th anniversary editions.

[landroversforever]

30 minutes ago, Retroanaconda said:

Better than the 75th anniversary editions.

Have to agree - they look terrible. body coloured wheels being the absolute worst bit.

 

[steve b]

53 minutes ago, landroversforever said:

Have to agree - they look terrible. body coloured wheels being the absolute worst bit.

 

Limestone wheels , obviously the only correct colour

 

[Anderzander]

On 8/23/2023 at 9:57 PM, FridgeFreezer said:

The proportions on these look so strange to me.

[landroversforever]

Just now, Anderzander said:

The proportions on these look so strange to me.

Is it the body coloured door frame rather than the usual black? Makes the windows look smaller?

[Anderzander]

I think it’s that the waist line and above looks to be from a different scale of car - like if it was a model the top would 1/35 and the bottom 1/16.

The bottom half also looks so shortened to me, and with oversized wheels, like those caricatured pictures people used to get of their cars.

[Anderzander]

This kind of thing 

But I guess we see the ‘roof chop’ look on some of the Range Rovers too.

They are perhaps just not big on the golden mean at the moment  🤷 

[Mo Murphy]

Presumably it's vinyl wrap for some event. I hope they got the wrap for free !

Mo

[FridgeFreezer]

On 8/25/2023 at 7:06 AM, Anderzander said:

The proportions on these look so strange to me.

It's a modern car thing - high "belt lines" equals better crash safety scores, same as fatter pillars all round - compare a modern car's windscreen pillar with that of a Defender or RRC and they are huge things that create a massive blind-spot, but it's safer in a crash / stiffer for handling etc.

Also why you see so much stuff now with almost no rear window / visibility and solve the problem with a backup camera because the rear-view mirror is almost useless.

[jeremy996]

3 hours ago, FridgeFreezer said:

Also why you see so much stuff now with almost no rear window / visibility and solve the problem with a backup camera because the rear-view mirror is almost useless.

Certainly, on my Grenadier, reversing without a back-up camera would be an exercise in blind faith. In a traffic jam, anything much smaller than a modern Mini queued neatly behind me is invisible, both too low and too narrow.