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The demise of the Defender

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16 Mar 2021 08:57 - 16 Mar 2021 09:00 #233760 by lightning
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l've got an original Defender and a Jimny. They are both great working vehicles, the new Defender is great but it's not a Defender, if only Suzuki had made the Jimny 25% larger!

 
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16 Mar 2021 09:11 #233761 by Lambert
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Jimny doesn't want to be any much bigger otherwise it means that the only viable alternative for farmers is a side by side and even the new Jimny kicks those in the unmentionables and steals their pocket money.
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16 Mar 2021 09:54 #233762 by 300bhpton
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The new Pretender is a very good Discovery replacement. But it is no Defender.
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16 Mar 2021 10:11 #233763 by Gadget
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X8GGY wrote: Before we start throwing stones in our glasshouse...

Isn't  the Gen4 going the same way?...

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Thankfully only a very small minority of Gen4s have been pimped in the same way. The fact that it's a tiny car means that the over-compensating crowd aren't interested in the first place, after all what's the point in having a 4x4 if you can't loom threateningly 6 inches from someone's back bumper at 80mph in the outside lane? 
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16 Mar 2021 14:20 #233768 by DAGZOOK
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X8GGY wrote: Before we start throwing stones in our glasshouse...

Isn't  the Gen4 going the same way?...

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I'm not so sure.. Yes in a sense that the Gen.4 SZ5 has some impressive bells and whistles for it's price point, but ultimately the Gen.4's principle design is a barebones body on frame 4x4. Had JLR released a new defender that featured 21st centry bells and whistles, but remained structually and mechanically true to its roots, it would be an absolute game changer..... (Ineos Grenedier........
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16 Mar 2021 16:18 #233770 by Roger Fairclough
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The high cost of the new Defender - aka Chelsea Tractor - is the need to build in sufficient funds to rectify the inevitable faults.

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