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They do offer the Namib Orange on the D5, and I think it looks stunning with black wheels and roof, but my wife absolutely refused to be seen in a car that color, so I had to go with a more crowd-pleasing Silicon Silver. Hides brush stripes a little better too. I personally love the green with...

Shut your whore mouth. ? JLR never brought that one to the NAS market...the Td6 is good, but you can always have MOAR TORQUES. ?

This will be a profit machine for a step above SVO/SVX Jaguar is producing "reborn" restomods at ultrapremium prices through their Classic Works division - maybe this will be an equivalent business unit for LR. That kind of work is very profitable, and it will carry the cachet of being...

Toyo makes some, and Les Schwab carries a cheaper version under their house brand I think. The selling point for them is that Walnut shells are among the hardest of natural fibers, but against ice there are cheaper alternatives to impregnate rubber with, such as glass.

I have lots of experience with Hakka's - they are THE best winter tire IMO. If you're going to be regularly driving on hardpacked icy roads or when there's black ice under fresh snow then you need studs. Only studs or chains help maintain the most control on ice (primarily stopping and turning...

The thread was started specifically to be a magnet/sink for that kind of behavior. Give it an outlet and maybe the other threads can actually be useful and civil.

...Aaaand there it is.

Now that's some New Defender rage/hate right there.

The D5 has air suspension but not adaptive dampers - they do have "Adaptive Dynamics" available but that adjusts the cornering brake control / trail braking, steering ratio, and throttle response based on cornering forces, doesn't adjust damping rates or anything like that. It does lower the...

4-runners come with 20's on the Limited and "Nightshade Edition," whatever the f--- that is. Otherwise standard 17" wheels. And really terrible braking performance for their class.

I have tons of traction with my Discoverer AT3's and have had no issues on low-speed 4-wheeling, including 6"+ rock steps up and down. Land Rover runs the stock 20's (including the crappy stock Goodyear and Pirelli street tires) on their Moab vehicles, which are driving White Rim, Poison...

I have 32" tires on my D5 right now, no rubbing, no cutting, no lifting. 33" will fit without mods but will rub at full lock at access height - i.e., crouched down driving in a parking garage. EDIT: For the record, my 275/55-20 AT's are 31.9" tall and 265/65-20 KO2's are 32.6" tall. Go 18"...

Mine has gone 32,000 miles without a problem. I've even driven it through whole feet of water without catching fire. Multiple times! Lucas Electric doesn't make switchgear or wiring harnesses for Land Rover any more. It's the original sin of the automotive world. The corollary is, Toyota...

The Defender has a rear-mounted spare. Literally every picture of it shows that. The 4Runner does not, nor does the Taco. Or the LC or any Lexus. Don't need a lift to get 32" tires on 18" rims and the spare on my D5. I run dedicated snows in winter. You don't go offroad in the Colorado...

I distinctly remember ads for the Disco that said something to the effect of, "It's not the cheapest 4x4 on the market, but it's worth it." It always had more tech than its competitors and was nicer inside. You know, "upmarket."

All I needed was a set of AT tires, and will drive 99.9% of roads and trails in the US. That was $1,000. I don't know what you're buying off the lot that can do more than a Land Rover D5 with factory air suspension and TR2 and a set of aftermarket tires. Jeep Wranglers come standard with...

I ******** you not. This was the Redondo Beach, CA Land Rover dealer, and the Defender had already been announced as discontinued in the US. May have been early 1998 - it was sunny and 70 degrees like it was every day so I don't remember the actual date much less the season. Apparently they saw...

Whaah hay-ull, that's just a cobblestone boo-lee-vard.

JLR is moving upmarket, eh? They weren't there before? :sneaky: I always remember as a kid it was a treat to see a 12 cylinder Jaguar XJ or Vanden Plas glide by. Jaguar interiors always looked fit to gently cradle the Queen's own ass, at least until Ford bought them. Range Rovers might as...

You can say that about any vehicle. Hasn't stopped them from driving from South Africa to India, or across Africa for that matter.