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mjdronfield



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Defender.... Adopted?

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1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
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1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
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SS.Lyria



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I’ve seen a lot of negative feedback from old school Defender owners saying it’s lost it’s DNA.
Major gripe being when it breaks down in the bush how are you supposed to fix it Whistle

I think it looks quite cool and I wouldn’t mind having a drive to see how it shapes up.

Post #581419 27th Jan 2021 7:42pm
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Cam-Tech-Craig



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They do drive lush... Thumbs Up

And how do you fix a TDCi out in the field Whistle Whistle Whistle

Post #581439 28th Jan 2021 12:51am
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TJRL



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They do indeed drive well - very well off road. Thumbs Up

They also look ok, other than the strap-on lunch box (oh-err Whistle )

But in no way should they use or be associated with the Defender branding. Rolling Eyes 2010 Range Rover TDV8 Baltic Blue Autobiography (2011 MY) - SOLD Sad
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KurtVerbose



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Cam-Tech-Craig wrote:
And how do you fix a TDCi out in the field Whistle Whistle Whistle


With a hammer.

If there had been a new defender every 8 years since the first came out we'd have pretty much the same car. Because there was a 70 year wait for a new one people say it's lost its DNA.

Post #581447 28th Jan 2021 7:12am
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Hermes



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I quite like it...

That said, I just don’t see it as a Defender (or 90... or Series....etc.)
It has lost its modular-ness, which to me, was its identity

Still a great motor, but now much more like yet another Range Rover spin-off (no matter how many fake bolt trims they put inside Rolling with laughter)

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Red Merle



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SS.Lyria wrote:
I’ve seen a lot of negative feedback from old school Defender owners saying it’s lost it’s DNA.
Major gripe being when it breaks down in the bush how are you supposed to fix it Whistle


Firstly, no one will ever please them and secondly, it would be pretty much the same for anyone trying to fit the Transit engine in the Puma Defender 🙄

Post #581453 28th Jan 2021 9:04am
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CongoBoy



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TJRL wrote:
They do indeed drive well - very well off road. Thumbs Up

They also look ok, other than the strap-on lunch box (oh-err Whistle )

But in no way should they use or be associated with the Defender branding. Rolling Eyes

I feel similarly.
To me, this should have been branded as the next Discovery, not as a Defender.

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Cam-Tech-Craig



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Completely agree, but I said that way before it was released for sale! 👍

However, using the Defender branding?!? How is that any different to the Ewok carrying the RR branding? And surely, that’s a bigger foo par? No Whistle Whistle Whistle

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Red Merle



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CongoBoy wrote:
I feel similarly.
To me, this should have been branded as the next Discovery, not as a Defender.


Have you, firstly, owned a Discovery 3 or 4 and secondly, been in a new Defender?

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Cam-Tech-Craig



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I can answer that Red... Yes, Yes & Yes... And i completely agree it should have been branded the D5... As in real terms, its just like a D4 rework! Thumbs Up

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JCW



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Cam-Tech-Craig wrote:
Completely agree, but I said that way before it was released for sale! 👍

However, using the Defender branding?!? How is that any different to the Ewok carrying the RR branding? And surely, that’s a bigger foo par? No Whistle Whistle Whistle


Just symptomatic of the general homogenisation of LR model branding across its entire range, not unintentionally.

But what’s in a name, I just take each for what they are Thumbs Up

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Red Merle



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Cam-Tech-Craig wrote:
I can answer that Red... Yes, Yes & Yes... And i completely agree it should have been branded the D5... As in real terms, its just like a D4 rework! Thumbs Up


I knew that you would have done 👍 which is why I was especially asking CB.

My very low opinion of the current D5 is pretty well known 🙄 and I would have loved this to be the real thing but, beyond the boxy shape and external dimensions, this is very different from the D4 inside, the D4 still being a luxury car, but more spacious and practical than the Fatty. As soon as I got inside, this screamed Defender at me; from the flat front floor to the two front seats being pushed to the edges to allow for a third front perch.

Give it a bigger boot and the option of a split tailgate (and even better, build it in Solihull) and I’d have one. But, to many who might have looked at a D4 in place of say, a Mercedes estate, the Defender is going to be too much of a step.

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Philip



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KurtVerbose wrote:


If there had been a new defender every 8 years since the first came out we'd have pretty much the same car. Because there was a 70 year wait for a new one people say it's lost its DNA.


Exactly that.

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TJRL



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KurtVerbose wrote:

If there had been a new defender every 8 years since the first came out we'd have pretty much the same car. Because there was a 70 year wait for a new one people say it's lost its DNA.


Really??

I seem to recall the that the original Land Rover (later renamed as "Series 1") has been updated many, many time over the years. As a rough guide (please don't flame me if a bit inaccurate!):-

1948 - Rover cars produced a new model of car - A Land Rover
1958 - Rover cars produced an updated version - The SII Land Rover
1961 - Rover cars produce an updated version - The SIIa Land Rover
1972 - British Leyland Cars produce an updated version - The SIII Land Rover
1984 - British Leyland Cars produce an updated version - The 90 and 110 Land Rovers
1990 - The Land Rover 90 and Land Rover 110 - Replaced by Defender 90 / 110 respectively
1996 - Land Rover produce an updated version - Wolf Defender

So very nearly "a new Defender every 8 years" or so. All with very similar "DNA" so much so that even JLR talk about a 1948 Land Rover as being a Defender when of course it was not. Evil or Very Mad

It is easy to compare a 2016 Defender to a 1948 Series 1 Land Rover and see the common DNA.

But in no way shape or form can a 2020 "Defender" (of should that be Pretender?) be compared with a 2016 Defender. There just is not any common DNA at all. Shocked 2010 Range Rover TDV8 Baltic Blue Autobiography (2011 MY) - SOLD Sad
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