Is this the all-new 2015 Defender?

[Oilworker]

What do you think?

This concept study of the 2015 FORD Bronco has a great resemblance of the classic Land Rover Defender, don´t you think?

After the DC100 was "killed" in the US this could actually be a great stunt to prepare the market for the all-new Defender

Some more images...

…and a link for some more specs of the Defender, uups, sorry, the 2015 FORD Bronco Concept

It may be old, but it sure isn´t forgotten and this concept has just about everything that the new Defender is required to have.

Just put it onto the current Discovery platform, redraw a few lines and there you are…..

 

[plainjaneFJC]

I may be mistaken, but it seems to me this concept has been around for a few years now?

 

[454]

You're not mistaken. That concept is almost old enough to get its driver's license.

 

[mpinco]

Think I saw those 'concepts' about a decade ago ................... just after the Scout III concepts .............. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/11/17/international-history-in-auburn-museum/

 

[nickburt]

Does that not go back to the days when Landrover were owned by Ford anyway? (2000 - 2008)

 

[Oilworker]

Oh, come on guys, cheer up a bit and enjoy the last hours of 2013 ;-)

 

[badm0t0rfinger]

Those pictures are very old. That is actually from when my dad work at Ford and those concepts had a lot of backing by a lot of high people, but had one very important person who didn't back it, and therefore it didn't make it into production. Mind you, this is probably [at least] second or third hand information to a 13 or 14 year old, but it makes me wonder if they would have released it before the Jeep JK Wrangler if this would have been the benchmark for small utility SUVs instead of the Wrangler. Probably not, but it would have been a nice bit of competition.

 

[Eniam17]

That thing looks cool but I don't think we will get lucky enough to see the real thing until it actually gets released. There have been so many "concepts" floating around for 5+ years or more now.

 

[Red90]

There have been so many "concepts" floating around for 5+ years or more now.

More like 20 years.

 

[DougG]

I saw that concept Ford at the NY Auto Show in 2004.

 

[cnutco]

Yeah old. I would like to see it surface though! I would have one if they produced it.


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[Kmrtnsn]

Those tired Ford Bronco concept vehicles first started being shopped around the Car Show circuit in 2004 and Ford sold Land Rover years ago. Yawn.

 

[Kmrtnsn]

Additionally, that tired concept was based on the Escape chassis. I'm sure a new Defender could use a bit more "off road prowess" than that.

 

[Douglas S.]

6th photo shows the interior of an Icon Bronco...

 

[rover4x4]

the JK is the last of a dying breed, no one will build another SUV that will actually be worthy of driving in the woods. Im so tired of fluffed up plastic station wagons posing as 4x4's.