2020 Land Rover Defender Caught Testing It's Chops In Public

The new Land Rover Defender has been spied testing on public roads for the first time, as development of the rugged 4x4 ramps up ahead of it going on sale in 2020.

The pictures show the new Defender in camo livery on the roads near the Jaguar Land Rover factory. Asked about the images at the Paris motor show, Felix Bräutigam, Jaguar Land Rover's marketing chief, admitted they were of the first prototype to lead Gaydon, and said more would follow in coming months as the ramp-up to production begins.

“These are what we call Pilot build cars and testing will increase on public roads from now,” said Bräutigam. “The first four cars are ready, and now the line is running you can expect the number of test cars to grow exponentially.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 10/2/2018 1:31:24 PM

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Looks like they just dragged an older LR4/Discovery out of the back. I have very little faith in the Land Rover soap box design department to come out with a new Defender that isn't a huge disappointment. I hope I am wrong.

malba2367 - 10/2/2018 3:13:05 PM

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Its not going to be the spartan vehicle it once was, but it will have tons of capability that most will never use. If they bring it at $50K starting to $70K loaded they will sell tons of them.

MDarringer - 10/2/2018 9:34:04 PM

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It will more likely base at $70K and sell for $100K.