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Nasher said:
I can't imagine trying to repair that thing in the middle of a warzone. There is a reason the military are still running old Defenders, some really old. You can use duct tape to get them going again.
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Get real, snatch land rovers are legacy of our ill prepared military operations overseas. Total death traps not suitable for anything of the sort. Hence the UK used the Mastiff now, enough squaddies died from roll over events let along the onslaught of IEDs for the MOD to finally pull their fingers out.
 
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builder22 said:
I quite like the look of that Defender but it's hardly a workhorse used by farmers/gamekeepers etc like the old Defender....I take it it's not aimed at that market anymore?
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The Japanese trucks have well and truly got that market covered, utilitarian and cheap and sit nicely in commercial tax brackets with the large pickup area. The other aspect of the Defender nostalgia is enthusiastically bought second hand vehicle is never really the market you want to target.
 
sigma said:
It was sarcasm, unless you really think that the X5 has two spares? :p
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ha sorry mate. :p Indeed.


Nasher said:
What isn't generic about the looks? You could park it in a line of other SUVs and it wouldn't draw the eye. It's just....more tomato sauce in the tomato sauce section.

I don't do a school run or live in Chelsea so maybe it's just that I don't care.
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It’s a polarising car, it can’t be generic. It’s getting a bit tiring listening the amateur Mash Report.
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Let me know when you go to spec savers if you miss this one :p it’s massive!
 
Jonnycoupe said:
Get real, snatch land rovers are legacy of our ill prepared military operations overseas. Total death traps not suitable for anything of the sort. Hence the UK used the Mastiff now, enough squaddies died from roll over events let along the onslaught of IEDs for the MOD to finally pull their fingers out.
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Lol the mastiff is a combat vehicle. They still use old defenders as run arounds. Some have been replaced by modern Japanese 4x4s...
 
Firestar_3x said:
Got a reference for that, i thought they all got culled years ago.
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Well the base I work on... there are still old defenders in use, in fact they bought a load more right before they went out of production. We had some "modern" Land and Range rovers, but they were **** and can't take the abuse, so were scrapped because they were forever breaking.
 
Jonnycoupe said:
ha sorry mate. :p Indeed.




It’s a polarising car, it can’t be generic. It’s getting a bit tiring listening the amateur Mash Report.
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Let me know when you go to spec savers if you miss this one :p it’s massive!
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It's Nasher. I don't think ocular enhancement technologies have come far enough to cancel out wrong opinions presented as fact :D


I like it. It's clearly not aimed at the squaddies anymore but rather those with enough cash to spend on weekends exploring. The wash-down interior is fantastic, whilst still maintaining most of the functionality we've come to expect from an SUV.

Of course this hasn't stopped Khan in London, or their sister brand "chelsea truck company" from buying a load in, looking forward to seeing them on 22" wheels with no sidewall parked in Waitrose supermarkets.
 
I like it but do worry that it's lost the charm of the original...that being it was easy to replace pretty much anything on it with only a basic toolkit.
 
I agree. The new Defender is more like what the Discovery 5 should have been for me.

The new Wrangler, for example, still has removable doors and windscreen. The new Bronco looks awesome and comes with a manual. This doesn't feel like a Defender.
 
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