It's an Animal, it's a bloody Animal... :)

v8250 · Oct 4, 2020

Okay, think I've found the Defender that Land Rover should have made. Excluding early adopter pricing and dubious interior colour scheme, this really is what the new Defender should have been...and I want one!

450bhp
450Nm
0-62mph 4.2secs
120+mph

kermit_rr · Oct 4, 2020

v8250 said:
Okay, think I've found the Defender that Land Rover should have made. Excluding early adopter pricing and dubious interior colour scheme, this really is what the new Defender should have been...and I want one!

450bhp
450Nm
0-62mph 4.2secs
120+mph

Shame they lowered it.
No low range because you don't need it? I get that, but how do you go slow?

kevstar · Oct 4, 2020

They need someone who pays attention to detail, putting it on show & the nsr has a rusty mud
flap bracket, also it needs an oil drip system to be authentic.

Tis cool though.

v8250 · Oct 4, 2020

kermit_rr said:
Shame they lowered it. No low range because you don't need it? I get that, but how do you go slow?

How to go slow? Ease off on the loud pedal and let the electric drive motor torque do its thing + I think it's lowered for a more road orientated drive and to lower the CoG that's, logically, needed for a safer drive/handling et al. Tis very cool

Henry_b · Oct 4, 2020

Bet there is no change out of 50k for that conversion..

Looks interesting...

v8250 · Oct 4, 2020

It's at early adopter pricing ~ £150k. The price will come down over time and there will be competitors to ECC's, most likely from Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary etc., all of whom will have equally high grade conversions. Early stage pricing aside, this is a great all round bus...

Henry_b · Oct 4, 2020

v8250 said:
It's at early adopter pricing ~ £150k..

v8250 · Oct 4, 2020

Henry_b said:

But remember when Sony Betamax vide cassette players were £800+ in 1982...? And in the early 2000's when flat screen TV's were £10,000+...?!! This pricing will come down as the components become more broad mass...ECC will come under price point market pressure in 3 years or so + there are other equally good EV battery and motor drive manufacturers out there, we wouldn't necessarily need to go down the Tesla route.

Henry_b · Oct 4, 2020

v8250 said:
But remember when Sony Betamax vide cassette players were £800+ in 1982...? And in the early 2000's when flat screen TV's were £10,000+...?!! This pricing will come down as the components become more broad mass...ECC will come under price point market pressure in 3 years or so + there are other equally good EV battery and motor drive manufacturers out there, we wouldn't necessarily need to go down the Tesla route.

The components are already very broad across the board.
Converting classics to EV's has been going on for well over a decade

Can't really compare it to tech, EV's aren't new hat

And remember that was a conversion not a resto, can you imagine the price if they had "restored it" too

A nice accessory, not very practical though.

v8250 · Oct 4, 2020

Henry_b said:
The components are already very broad across the board. Converting classics to EV's has been going on for well over a decade
Can't really compare it to tech, EV's aren't new hat And remember that was a conversion not a resto, can you imagine the price if they had "restored it" too A nice accessory, not very practical though.

All very true. If I was rebuilding/restoring another Defender, new chassis, mechanicals, body et al I'd be hugely tempted with an EV conversion kit. As a daily driver I'd say an EV Defender is eminently practical and compared with the new LRDef it would be far better bang for buck, to buy a current/already restored Defender and then convert. If only the new LRDef didn't have 85 ECU's!!

Henry_b · Oct 4, 2020

v8250 said:
All very true. If I was rebuilding/restoring a Defender, new chassis, mechanicals, body et al I'd be hugely tempted with an EV conversion kit. As a daily driver I'd say an EV Defender is eminently practical and compared with the new LRDef it would be far better bang for buck to buy a current/already restored Defender and then convert. If only the new LRDef didn't 85 ECU's!!

Yes I would too..

If it was 100k cheaper

Tesla make the BEST ev powertrain at the moment, now and ever, as a mechanical marvel Tesla is up there..

No one can touch them..

Only issue I have is, and it's the most common one "80 - 110mi" Range isn't very practical, especially if you hitched a trailer behind it

For 150k i'd rather a 4.6 V8 110 and enough money saved for over 200k worth of driving

nobber · Oct 4, 2020

How did they manage to get the rear seating in like that, the arches look to have been cut out to provide leg space.

It's an Animal, it's a bloody Animal... :)

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Very

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Think outside, no box required.

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Think outside, no box required.

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Think outside, no box required.

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Think outside, no box required.

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