RENDERED SPECULATION: MORE Details Emerge About The Upcoming Land Rover Defender — Don't Hold Your Breath...

The new Land Rover Defender will be a family of vehicles based around two wheelbase sizes, with versions ranging from basic utilitarian vehicles up to luxurious high-end models.

The mission for Land Rover’s reborn icon is to offer the “biggest breadth of capability of any model to wear the badge”. The revived nameplate, set to be officially revealed within the next year, is Land Rover’s most anticipated new model in decades. The firm had previously considered unveiling it this year, to coincide with Land Rover’s 70th anniversary, but the imminent launch of the Mk2 Evoque is understood to have made this less likely.

Despite its utilitarian roots, the new Defender family will likely be pitched as a premium offering: entry-level versions are unlikely to come in at much under £40,000, while high-end models — which will be significantly more luxurious and powerful — are set to cost in excess of £70,000...

MDarringer - 9/10/2018 8:11:48 AM

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The real issue for Tata is that this cannot be a "Defender in name only" thing that is just another permutation in their already crowded and stupidly overlapping array of vehicles.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 9/10/2018 6:15:49 PM

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@MD- Sadly what you are seeing the design team seemingly in charge of the whole vehicle project and the model roadmap. The new Defender will be a soap bar like the Velar and the Discovery. We all know it should be a Wrangler competitor and keep to its roots as this vehicle is the living + breathing DNA of the brand. It should be preserved and kept pure no matter how many generations it goes through.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 9/10/2018 9:28:49 AM

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If they were smart they would have kept the same recipe and modernized it for current crash standards and nothing more. It still needs to be a utility knife. Having luxury versions of this SUV should not have been a priority in the design brief.

dumpsty - 9/10/2018 2:30:34 PM

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Agreed. The Defender should've been treated like the G-wagen. Revise the platform as needed & modernize the interior; but keep the exterior as original as possible.

MDarringer - 9/10/2018 6:30:38 PM

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If they were smart, they would have make the Defender go toe to toe with the Wrangler and then done a Range Rover version aimed at the Mercedes G.

MBCLS07 - 9/10/2018 5:23:30 PM

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The new Mercedes G-Class update should have been the template for this new Defender. Not the LR2. Tata is screwing this up.

wilfred - 9/10/2018 7:51:05 PM

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For someone unfamiliar with the Land Rover brand like me, I am guessing this new Defender is the 2 dr Discovery? Because the Range Rover was the top of the line once upon a time but then a Range Rover Sport came along, then a Range Rover Evoque, then Range Rover Velar... And then you have to figure out the trims & engines... And they are all priced very closely... I’d hate to be the sales person walking up to someone like me wanting to buy a Range Rover SUV!