Current Defender to be in production till 2017!!

Current Defender to live on to 2017 - Autocar.co.uk

Funny how they say...

“There are a number of changes to the legislation that mean we can keep the current Defender in production longer than we thought,” said a Land Rover source.

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should be read:
we didnt realise the customer base we currently have for the Defender would not buy the new pile of **** we have designed!

what they mean to say is ooooo s**t we f****d up we can't build that piece of crap we designed so we will drag it out as long as we can 2017 (cough) an then 2 years after that an eerrrr 2 years after that an then have a massive Cort battle after that against EU regulations :doh:

maybe someone at their biggest customer had a word in a few ears?.

ricc said:

maybe someone at their biggest customer had a word in a few ears?.

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or maybe they read LZ an other land rover forums

2017?? Diesel will be £5 a litre by then!!!!!!!!!!

DISCOVERY1-DAZ said:

2017?? Diesel will be £5 a litre by then!!!!!!!!!!

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Don't go there....

At least there will some spares for peeps to use....

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should be read:
we didnt realise the customer base we currently have for the Defender would not buy the new pile of **** we have designed![/quote]

Eggzackerly, :doh::doh::doh::doh::doh:

fookin ell , I am not a fender man but that new one looks like the child of a new mini and gaylander!

no one who buys defenders will buy that surely?

the whole point was that they always looked like landys right?

if you want that other ****e you would get a gaylander or evoque right?

I might even be able to buy a new one before they stop making em. As soon as the new joke vehicle takes over fully I aint interested in buying a new landrover of any sort.

I's like to see it carry on for as long as possible, even if the numbers that it sells in are completely uneconomic. I would expect it'll be selling at a mere trickle come 2015-2017.

However, for buyers of "other ****e...gaylanders" [sic] like me, it's great to see one in the showroom when we sign the order for our new cars. You know the ones, they're the ones that currently keep the company in business and thousands of UK workers in manufacturing jobs, right?!

most of you and landrover apear to be forgetting that the current defender is a commercial vehicle ....the sales to the "man in the street" are miniscule its market is businesses and government departments that need an off road load or people carrier.... those volume customers will never buy a plastic gaylander clone .

fett said:

if you want that other ****e you would get a gaylander or evoque right?

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Or a mini.

yup, but a mini would be excusable for a girl- but a gaylander is inexcusable for anyone anytime!

Hey, I thought that you had to be a trattor boy to be that ignorant! And, while I'm at it, I'm guessing that you've never driven a properly quick Supercharged R53 Cooper S either...

Oi Tigger!
When ya comin to get these seats?

You weren't it at 6.50. I've had my fish and chips now and I'm on me way!....

my v8 bmw is fast enough and no, no minis or gaylanders for me. I got a lift in a gaylander to go pick up my first range rover but even the driver said they wernt a proper landy and they were ****e!

Tigger said:

You know the ones, they're the ones that currently keep the company in business along with all them vehicle breakdown firms, right?!

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Yep

LeadFarmer said:

Yep

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The FL2 is the most reliable thing they build, so you're on to a loser there

til 2017 but how many more engine cuts are they going to have to do to it ?