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BBC review (& New Defender) - Blackseries - 31-08-2011 09:46am
Talks about the Evoque and Defender replacement ..... as a news item.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14528047
Defender Concept
http://jalopnik.com/5835993/land-rovers-dc100-concept-looks-like-a-defender-made-love-to-an-evoque
RE: Sort of .... BBC review - XFullFatTim - 31-08-2011 09:57am
There is also this BBC webpage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14726189
They say it looks like an Evoque....................... sorry but I don't see anything remotely Evoque in it except maybe the styling in the headlights.
Gerry McGovern has a hard task dragging a 1948 design into the 21st century - whatever he does will be wrong in the eyes of the purists. Anyway it will probably look nothing like that (Just like Evoque looks nothing like LRX
) by the time it hits the mountainsides and byways, but I bet it will be an expensive motor when it arrives - Oh and it mentions somewhere that the Defender has been with us since 1948 - absolute TOSH, Defender has been here since the late 1980's or early 1990's, before that it was the Land Rover 90/110 and before that Series 3, 2a,2 and 1
RE: BBC review (& New Defender) - Blackseries - 31-08-2011 10:14am
I think the "new" Defender looks very Skoda Yeti(ish) ..... IMO
RE: BBC review (& New Defender) - XFullFatTim - 31-08-2011 10:18am
That is also the general line of comments on the SLROC forum too........... I think it also bears a fair resemblance to the Toyota FJ Cruiser.
RE: BBC review (& New Defender) - cobkelly - 31-08-2011 12:05pm
(31-08-2011 10:14am)Blackseries Wrote: I think the "new" Defender looks very Skoda Yeti(ish) ..... IMO
Exactly my thoughts when I first saw the picture.
RE: BBC review (& New Defender) - Charlie - 31-08-2011 02:22pm
I really like the look of it, if it says close to this image.[attachment=300]
Now where do we put a deposit down? lol
RE: BBC review (& New Defender) - pureevoque - 31-08-2011 04:08pm
It's the colour coded B pillar that makes it look Yetish
IMO the whole look of the car would be improved by making that pillar black to give the floating roof appearance
RE: BBC review (& New Defender) - XFullFatTim - 31-08-2011 04:24pm
I quite like the look of it but it does need to loose any resemblance to the Skoda.
The other thing I have noticed that probably won't get passed the safety tests are the front recovery points - in enlarged photos these are the orange things below the front fog lights, they aren't the indicators which was what I thought at first. Also why would a Defender want a spoiler over the rear door, unless LR is considering the 4.4TDv8 or 5.0ltr S/C motors in it......................
RE: BBC review (& New Defender) - LP - 31-08-2011 05:12pm
I think this mock up looks much better.
Should add (to avoid confusion) this picture is not of the concept the new defender will be based on.