Is THIS The BEST Photo Of The ALL-NEW Land Rover Defender?

It would see that they have tried to "butch up" the failed and hated concept from a few years ago. The front grill is phoned in and a fail. The public wants a retro Defender with modern safety and equal abilities. The LR design team wants to make a future oriented vehicle with no hint to the past. That is not how you update an icon.

Note to Land Rover; Please see 2019 G Class For directions on how to revive an icon. If this rendering looks anything like your planned attempt, do us all a favor and trash it....start over

This looks like the Jeep Renegade.

I like it ok. Not as interesting as I hoped it would be, but utilitarian enough. All the Land Rover models should look more rugged and off roadish than the Range Rovers. The new Discovery was disappointing in that respect.

That was a hard pill to swallow.

Lotsa wild speculations in the source article. The Defender image is jejune at best.

Fun slide show and I sure hope that render is wrong!

Most of the renders in the slide show were comically bad.

All they had to do was re-engineer the Defender to make a modern version of the old one. Make it retro looking as heck but with all the modern safety systems. Make it a durable mountain goat. Instead we got another in a long line of pseudo off-roaders meant to pose at the mall.

Or do like Mercedes, keep building the old one but tell people it's all new.

Agreed, leave the mall posing and wine and cheese crowd the Range Rovers but give them some ok off road ability, more than the typical BMW/Audi can muster so the other 1/2 can justify it in their head. Keep the Land Rovers more rugged with off road animal abilities but updated with modern technology.

Why does the Defender even exist? It was kind of cool in 1997 but since it had been removed from our market and confined to the dust-bin of military use in the UK for the most part - nobody really cares. It does not have any street cred in the USA, except perhaps for some preppy/Anglophile 40 year old "bro's" from Westchester, NY or Fairfield County, CT.

The demo for the new Defender is mostly paunchy, white, middle-aged, sort of preppy, former LaCrosse Players (see instagram account "washeduplaxbros" to see this type). The Defender has no celeb or urban cred at all. Fail.

This looks like a poor photoshop.

Love to see if Land Rover Defender price stay the same as the previous model 12 years ago?, around the low $70K for base price and full loaded top of the line model at $139K!

not if it looks like that