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Also in the RRS, for a full sized spare you have to sacrifice even more cargo space as it requires a raised interior cargo floor cover, or you have to buy something like a Wilco Hitchgate tire carrier

The L494 and L462 are indeed the same platform, but the Defender L663 is beefed up a bit in strength appropriate to its more offroad focus. The L494 and L462 are both D7u, the Defender L663 is the D7x. The running gear in the RRS and D5 are the same. The chassis tuning and some options are...

Yeah that playa would have been fun in maybe late September / early October on those Pirellis. Unfortunately it wouldn't have mattered what kind of tires he was on in those conditions.

Air suspension, no rubbing at any height. No lift rods. The only slight issue is shoehorning the fully inflated full-size spare in the spare well under the back...took some doing.

Got the new Compomotive 18" wheels and 255/70-18 tires on my 2017 D5 HSE Td6 (no problem with the brakes...the wheels *juuuuust* fit), along with Lucky8 sliders and a front bash plate and some HI-yeller Baja Designs lights in the grille. Parked here at a pretty mellow trailhead but this thing...

I think it's been made pretty clear that the Green Oval and the words L A N D R O V E R will still appear on Defenders and Discoveries going forward. Same with Jaguar - the Leaping Cat and the word jaguar will still be seen on whatever it is they make these days. Rebranding Jaguar Land Rover...

Gaia is nice in some ways because they offer Android Auto mirroring, which if you know how to use it well on your phone and have a newer vehicle with a decently sized display, then it will work pretty much the same on AA and you don't need to jerry-rig some tablet mount that will bounce all over...

The very first road trip I took in my D5 was deep into the Laramie Range in Wyoming for the solar eclipse in 2017...it was less than a month old. Not another soul in sight. On the way out, we found ourselves behind a brand new temp-tagged full size Range Rover Autobiography, clambering over the...

Absolutely - for short stop/go trips, school runs, etc Turbodiesels in general don't work well because they never warm up the downpipe sufficiently to self-clean. A good once per week interstate run in manual mode keeping the RPM's above ~3K for about 20 minutes will generally keep them clean. I...

Look for any D5 with TR2. Those came with low range, but not necessarily a rear locker. the only way to get the rear locker on the D5 Td6 was by getting the 7-seat option, and then you forego the full-sized spare and have to accept the higher weight and slightly reduced cargo volume. I've never...

My 2017 D5 HSE Td6 is rock solid at a hair over 70,000 miles and I still love driving it every day. Summer A/T's are going on soon, maybe upgrading wheels to some Compomotive PD1881's, but we'll see. About to get its second set of brake pads, aftermarket rotors from its first brake job are...

This is what I have on my M1A Scout Squad. That rifle is already dead-on accurate on open iron sights at 400 yards - this just takes all the challenge out of it. Haven't been anywhere I can push beyond 500 yet but planning a late spring trip to 4 corners region (maybe...the snow is just too good...

I want these wheels.

Great post on a part of Colorado most people don't know about or even associate with Colorado. If you haven't made it out to Picketwire / Purgatoire Canyon area yet, that's a great day-long diversion / weekend dark-sky getaway from the Front Range cities also. Longest dinosaur tracksite in North...

The issue is the way they drove it. Again, if you want to just bash your way over anything in your path, then any off-the-lot SUV or truck you buy will break, whether destroying a tire or something worse. If you drive your Defender in the correct way, which they intentionally did not, then it...

The idea of overlanding is often more attractive than the reality. Just like driving your daily with a set of 37" M/Ts on there. You might go offroad a few times a year, but you probably won't. Nevertheless, it's a good feeling to have when you're stuck in traffic and you just flip a u-turn over...

Publishing content for viewing to make money is their model. They can't control clicks, but there absolutely are tricks of the trade to drive traffic to their site and generate views. Hype and controversy are a couple of those tricks of the trade. All of their social media presence pushes people...

Yeah, you're totally right. I mean, they had posted a video from just a couple weeks earlier where the Defender made a fool out of a Gladiator on far tougher, more rocky terrain, but that got hardly any clicks. But the video where they line up 3 feet from a square edged rock and floored it...

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but anyone who takes any vehicle off road with tires as horrendously worn as those appear to be, has to accept the consequences. Doesn't matter if they're Load Range E M/T's or street tires. Always check your gear. I've driven that road in a Subaru without issues.

I've driven mine in sand, mud, rock, snow, ice, and various combinations - you name it. If you know your rig and know how your gear works in a given situation, you - 1. Won't get yourself into a situation you can't get out of when solo, and 2. You'll know how to get yourself out of such a...