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Nobody has sat in one. They don’t exist yet. It has all been preproduction prototypes. The first production models won’t be available until spring.

I’m pretty sure they have stated it is a fully aluminum structure.

They have stated that there are no plan to bring in any diesels. They would have needed to plan it during the engine design stage.

I’m not the one who said it could drive 99.99% of the trails in the world. The point is that they have made the new Land Rover something that is mediocre off road and it should be, IMO, world beating and breaking new ground. It should make every other brand in the world embarrassed off road. But...

Bwahahahahaha. Funniest thing I have read all week. Clearly you have never been on anything approaching a difficult trail. It will handle moderate trails at it best and that is as good as it will get.

IFS on cars you have to sell must use short arms in order to not take up interior space. This gives them poor wheel travel. All you need to do is spend a day off road with any modern Land Rover to understand the limitations and how much better are live axle multi link coil axles. If you do not...

They are bringing it to the US. They are using world class Engineers to design it for all markets. These guys are saying all of the right things. All the things that Land Rover is not saying.

You must be in a strange land. Every Land Rover owner I know goes off road. Very, very few Jeep owners do. As to the articulation point. My wife owned and wheeled a Rubicon at the same time as my 90. Stock articulation is almost exactly the same. The biggest difference is the 90’s ride is much...

And that there is the downfall of all the current Land Rover products. They think that the computers are smarter than the driver and that is when they get embarrassingly stuck on obstacles that normal truck drive threw with ease.

And you are the perfect new Defender owner then. And you are not the right person for a traditional Land Rover. My wife daily drives a 110 with an LT95. The point being that the Wrangler outsells the “Land Rover” by 10 times. The market is there and it is huge. The new Defender could have...

The point that you are missing is that it did not need to change in THIS WAY...... The Wrangler proves that.

Oh. It definitively does. You just have not been on hard enough trails.

Umm. Land Rover sells their other models with diesels in North America. It seems silly to leave out the Defender.

They have not used leather for the pumps in probably 30 years. A 424 will have a nitrile seal. If it is not pumping well it probably needs a couple of drops of oil.

Changing the ride height is not going to increase tire clearance. You would need to limit compression travel to do that.

It is not smaller. The dimensions shown earlier show that the 110 is the same width and a bit longer than a Disco 5. It will be basically the same price point.

Probably, but they won’t sell it in North America because of the chicken tax.

They stated in one of the previous announcements it would have an inline six in both petrol and diesel. The diesel would have a turbo plus an electric supercharger.

The new diesel on the F150 is the same engine used on current Discoveries and Range Rovers ( 3 litre V6 Powerstroke). The new Defender is using a different engine. A straight 6.

And with long travel multi link cool springs on live axles? Oh crap, Jeep already makes that.