New Land Rover Defender Coming With Five Bodystyles !!

The line-up will be made up of five body styles: a pair of two-door models — most likely a hardtop and a convertible — that will replace the current Defender 90, a long-wheelbase four-door version built to replace the Defender 110, as well as two- and four-door pickups.
The SUV models will be sold in the United States, but the pickups will be kept at bay by the decades-old Chicken Tax. (The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.)

Rumours claim the Defender will ditch its rugged, body-on-frame construction and instead ride on a uni-body platform made largely out of aluminium, but Land Rover is keeping technical details under wraps for the time being.
All we know at this point is that it will be offered with four- and six-cylinder petrol and diesel engines, and that it will come with a full-time four-wheel drive system.

The Defender will debut in 2018 and hit the States in 2019.
Land Rover hopes selling the Defender in the United States for the first time since 1997 will give sales a much-needed boost. The company predicts it needs to move at least 100,000 units of the off-roader annually, a massive increase over the roughly 10,000 examples it currently sells each year.

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...r-defender-coming-with-five-bodystyles-report

I saw that earlier quite interesting. They also said that the new model will be nothing like the prototypes we have seen before, which is encouraging.

We could be in for something actually worth buying.... 6 cylinder I wonder if its straight 6 or V6 could be an updated version of the TDV6 which wouldnt be bad at all. I do wonder where it will fit in regard to price however...

monocoque (ish) body and 6 cylinder diesel & petrol engines.... it's going to be a rangie! perhaps more like the classic though... a hose-down rangie.

Give me one and I might tell everyone that the all new even-more-gayer-lander isn't that bad really, for a modern car

Monocoque construction?



Am oot

It's going to be based on the same platform as the current range rover. Like it or not, most manufacturers base several vehicles on the same basic platform, and monocoque construction is the way things have been going for a long time. D7u is a flexible platform, and making a couple of different wheelbases and body styles wouldn't be difficult.

It won't be aimed at farmers etc, since the majority of people who will buy them won't be farmers, and don't want a farmers truck. No, you won't be able to fix it with a brick and a bit of string. You can't make a car that way anymore. Times change. It will be more along the lines of the multiple Japanese pickups etc- this is what people are buying and what will sell.

You may have seen a while ago a 'leaked' plan with three major product lines- Range Rover, Discovery and Defender. Range Rover is what it's always been, with several sizes (currently the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and the Evoque) Discovery absorbs Freelander into a more leisure/lifestyle segment (hence the freelander 3 being named Discovery Sport) while Defender remains the more utilitarian line of vehicles.

Im still really interested in what it could be. Depending, it wouldnt be bad having both on the drive!

My Mrs wants an evoque... Maybe I can convince her to have a new defender hummmm

By the time new Def arrives she'll have worn out an Evoque so get one of them for now....! A

Same path as Toyota with the FJ 40/45 and then the new style. things are never the same. What was once, is never again

What are farmers going to drive?!?

With the way modern tractors are going, it wouldn't surprise me if someone like John Deere offered a rugged, go-anywhere truck - it might even be classed as a tractor, which raises some interesting questions!

Can we agree to call the John Deere ute "the new Defender"?