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Plenty of tires available. If you're overlanding, then you take spares with you. By default, there aren't pop-up tire shops in the Black Rock Desert or the Atacama. And a set of Compomotives plus some BFG's or whatever your tire of choice is, is a minor expense and easy to do. And if you...

Unfortunately, in order to sell these vehicles in the US, Europe, and increasingly, China - the largest markets in the world - they require very advanced computer systems, sensors, and things like forced induction and high pressure fuel pumps with direct injection in order to achieve emissions...

Here we go with the "field repair" thing again. So do you carry with you all of the components that might fail in the field with you when you overland? If so, where do you keep your food, your emergency gear, your sleeping gear, your tools, ... etc? Do you bring driveshafts? Crankshafts...

Their job is to sell vehicles at a profit. Not sure how they would grow "a lot" selling vehicles that are built to be driven off-road over anything anywhere that suck to drive on-road the other 99.9% of their lives. Instead they built a vehicle that can go offroad on 99.9% of trails and still...

I created the thread to be a sink for the irrational, frothy hate, so that some day, when Defenders are waiting in lines on Poison Spider Mesa and Hell's Revenge, and Defender drivers in Poughkeepsie Gulch are wondering where all the Jeeps went, we can have threads that contain calm, rational...

In America, almost all violent crime occurs in just a very small percentage of zip codes, mostly where you'd expect - specific parts of large cities. Animal attacks in the lower 48 are exceedingly rare - you're more likely to get struck by lightning or get hit by a drunk driver...

Iran + Western nations / US / its close allies = recipe for detention, accusation of being a spy, and a longer stay in that country with a fair bit less hospitality than you may have planned. Period, end of story. If you're American, just avoid Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela right now. I'd...

Holy ******** that should be standard equipment!!! Priceless. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk

19's are absolutely offered, and they offer them with the off-road tire package that includes Wrangler DuraTracs. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk

19" are available on the. 3.0 as a no-cost option, there's a drop-down that lets you select them. 18" are not available on the 3.0, likely because of the larger brakes fitted with the more powerful engine. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk

Ok, so, what, exactly? It sounds like design is the biggest complaint. Your Marine coworker remarked it looks like a Honda. Perhaps as he goes back to the site on his own and explores it he'll see something else. He's certainly familiar with the fully independently suspended HMMWV. Others...

Ok, but what investment would you want to see in the Defender that would have kept it a Defender to those who want it to look and function exactly the same as the old one, so that it would sell more and justify bringing it back to the US? You see the problem with that perspective, don't you...

Why don't you join Rovers on the Rocks in New York State next year? I'm in Colorado but I'd bring my D5 to that every year if I lived anywhere in Virginia or parts north. You'll probably see all the Lucky8 Landies, including their D5 there. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk

Everyone has their own tastes. Nothing wrong with that. I love the look of the old Defender too...almost bought a used, bone-stock 1995 D90 with 45,000 miles on it in 1997, but it was priced at roughly one dollar per mile driven at the time. I didn't initially like the D5, particularly the back...

But they didn't sell any of them, so did they really meet requirements? The Defender went upmarket when it was reintroduced as the Defender from the 90/110. Land Rover as a brand has been upmarket for close to 40 years now. Define "urban". Is that a look, the appointments such as leather...

And yet here a number of people claiming to be its core customer base are trying to say Old Defender is Best Defender. But no one was buying it, even in the countries where it was still on sale. Now, they have invested in the Defender and made it better, and those "core customers" say they...

While I agree it would have been awesome if we had access to new-old Defenders post-1997, the economics didn't make sense at the time. Such updates necessary to continue to homologate the Defender were prohibitively expensive for Land Rover, too much to justify for the extremely small volume it...

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If it's not your cup of tea, why do you insist the Defender must be a rock crawler to be good? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk

You don't think a RAM 3500 has progressed? It's a rolling supercomputer compared to the original, just like every other vehicle on the road. It also has to meet lower emissions and different collision standards because of the vehicle class it is in, especially if sold in its Fleet...