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  1. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    I've had one drive in an LR4 on-road - my dealer had one in that powder-blue color they couldn't give away after the D5 came out and I wanted to give it a try to compare. the LR4 with the Si6 handled like a pregnant cow, the D5 is much more nimble in comparison and felt maybe a little quicker...
  2. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    Nice! Looks like on the rear side glass there's actually a structural member there and what looks like an airbag module back there, so that would be why you can't delete the panel on the 110. I got to drive a pre-production Discovery press car at my dealer on their way back from Moab doing...
  3. DieselRanger

    Land Rover TREK series coming back

    I would say it's worth the experiment. Then after they're fitted, if they don't really help, you can claim they're difficult to remove, and anyway, they protect your investment. ?
  4. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    More people live in Denver and Colorado Springs than in the entire state of Idaho. More people live in Los Angeles County than the entire state of Colorado. So Jaguar Land Rover doesn't care about Idaho specifically, and I'd wager the vast majority of the 1.79 million people in Idaho don't...
  5. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    Ok, it's obvious you're just trolling now. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk
  6. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    If you can't see the necessity of having a vehicle that can be good on the road and off road, then I've got nothing for you. My Discovery goes everywhere I want to, and all I've done so far is put AT tires on it. I do the same trails that lifted Wranglers with 35's do and I have no problems...
  7. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    If you've ever driven an RRS with Adaptive Dynamics, it's seriously good on the road. The 2019+ Disco comes with it, and that was the goal of the Nurburgring testing with the Defender. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk
  8. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    No market for luxury SUVs?? Land Rover, Jaguar, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Bentley, Rolls, Lamborghini, Alfa, Maserati, and soon Ferrari and Aston Martin all vehemently disagree with that statement, and the sales numbers prove it. Look no further, in fact, than Ferrari, who decided they...
  9. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    Land Rover cannot, will not, and doesn't want to take over the Wrangler's spot. If they tried, they'd go bankrupt. And that's not what they ever built for the consumer market in North America anyway. Toyota maybe could, but they'd have to bring back the FJ. And holy ******** did people complain...
  10. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    What rock have you lived under for the last ten years? You don't believe LEDs last longer than regular bulbs? LOL Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk
  11. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    I see a lot more lifted Rubicons that have never seen dirt at Starbucks than I do Land Rovers. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk
  12. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    A$$holes will be a$$holes. Rolling coal is for ignorant rednecks. It serves no legitimate purpose other than to create a spectacle and piss people off. I would argue that NOx is NOT worse than greenhouse gases. The CDC classifies oxides of nitrogen as a lung irritant despite many greenies...
  13. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    I saw two other D5's in one day on the trails around Crested Butte. Mine was the 3rd. You don't see many LRs on the trail because there were never that many LR's made in the first place. FCA and its predecessors have made more Wranglers than JLR has made cars in the last 30 years. So it's...
  14. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    You can't be more wrong. No bans have yet been enacted - only threatened. Yes, diesel sales have declined but they still make up nearly 40% of all vehicles sold in Europe. In the US, diesel passenger cars represent only three (3) percent of sales.
  15. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    SO MANY mall-crawler jeeps. Can't swing a bearded flat-brimmed hat wearing bro-dude without hitting 10 of them around here. If you're going to buy a mall-crawler, I'd want something different than all the conformist idiots with their ostrich-leather interiors and polished rims and their...
  16. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    The reason JLR - and all automakers - are building turbocharged engines is because of emissions and fuel economy. Turbocharged engines reduce emissions by re-burning a large proportion of the incompletely combusted exhaust gases, and allow smaller displacement engines to be used that are more...
  17. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    LOL, I get the, "hey, you should probably turn around - not sure you should take that thing any further." Me: "OK, I'll just go up ahead to look for a better place to turn around." And then I don't turn around.
  18. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    What doesn't come with lockers? If you're talking about the Defender, then you're right, you can't lock your diffs by getting out of the vehicle and turning a locker at the hub, you have to do it from inside the vehicle. You can lock the center and rear independently, and even control the auto...
  19. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    I'm with you on the benefits of diesel. When I was shopping around for a replacement for my to-be-bought-back Touareg, the JGC EcoDiesel was on my list as was (at the time) the RRS Td6, but the EcoDiesel was in a stop-sale and the JeepForum.com horror stories put me off. Jeep even had a social...
  20. DieselRanger

    2020 Defender Spy Shots....

    Then modern air suspension shouldn't be a problem either. BTW, Land Rovers have an "access height" where they lower to the bump stops for ease of entry and exit.
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