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RobKeay

Member Since: 19 Jul 2009
Location: Stafford
Posts: 1565

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 USW Corris Grey

Why do these threads about the new defender always get people taking the

. We will get to the point where anyone with a bit of info to share won't bother.

I for one am really interested in what is coming. If I wasn't just buying a new one in the next few weeks I would have put my deposit down like others have.

10th Sep 2013 10:49pm

Pickles

Member Since: 26 May 2013
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3752

2013 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 CSW Keswick Green

Rob, I'm interested too mate, don't worry, but not too interested.
We haven't even got ours yet, but I tell you what I'd be really unhappy with.....if the new Defender came out next year with a 150KW V6 Diesel, I'd just feel our 90kw Puma was a bit "inadequate"?
Cheers from Aus. Pickles.

10th Sep 2013 11:11pm

ericvv

Member Since: 02 Jun 2011
Location: Near the Jet d'Eau
Posts: 5816

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

Yes, but the new Defender with its 150kW engine would still be much more a Eurobox type construction than our historic hand assembled cube with its 90kW Puma....
I know which one I want to keep for eternity

You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation.
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11th Sep 2013 1:32am

Pickles

Member Since: 26 May 2013
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3752

Eric..I want the best of both....I want what I've ordered..EXACTLY....but the addition of a 150KW diesel would be good....a bit of extra "grunt" is always ok by me!
Cheers, Pickles.

11th Sep 2013 2:20am

Happyoldgit

Member Since: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 3471

2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 USW Corris Grey

I don't think there is too much intent to take the

RK it's just that most threads like this are usually, and understandably strong on hearsay and conjecture and very short of hard facts.

Now I know a bloke of unimpeachable integrity who's sister knows someone who has groceries delivered by an old fella who is very friendly with the cousin of someone inside Land Rover [but who obviously needs to remain nameless nudge, nudge, wink wink] who once spoke to a reliable and high up source within the new Defender design team. Now this high up individual says that we are indeed in for something really special in terms of the Defender replacement and that it more than likely run on wheels and have some form of motive power. Specific details will be revealed at an official announcement within the next fifty years. I can't wait!

In the meantime let the postulation continue... Steve.
Owned numerous Land Rover vehicles of all shapes and sizes over the decades.
Current Defender: A non tarts hand-bagged Puma 110 XS USW.

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I used to be Miserable ...but now I'm ecstatic.

11th Sep 2013 10:55am

TheWarden

Member Since: 25 Feb 2013
Location: Southampton
Posts: 179

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Aintree Green

davidwhittaker wrote:
TheWarden wrote:
The instructor I had at Eastnor was very coy on the new Defender.... I got the feeling that they been testing them there already. We did see a new Range Rover being tested.... and that was only 2 weeks ago

You saw a new range rover being tested 2 weeks ago? They've been on sale for 6/7 months now - I did a LR experience in one a fair few months ago?

This one was coming down off the tracks just as we were heading up. It was covered in a lot of rubber "armour" all over the front..... 2013 Aintree Green 110 Station Wagon SX

11th Sep 2013 11:14am

limbrickh

Member Since: 05 Oct 2012
Location: Canterbury
Posts: 20

2012 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Santorini Black

RobKeay...I agree about the M42. I was in England in June last year and saw 2 new Range Rovers in disguise on the M40/M42. I was amazed how little effort they were taking to keep things under wraps...save a little camouflage tape. To be honest though, I got a bit excited...I felt like I was watching a piece of history unfolding - it was a big deal for a simple bloke from the back blocks of NZ (I don't get out much).

11th Sep 2013 11:28am

Pickles

Member Since: 26 May 2013
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3752

miserableolgit, I don't think anyone's taking the

either, but neither do I think there's a "New" Defender around the corner...3 years I reckon...well 2016 anyway.
Cheers, Pickles.

11th Sep 2013 11:40am

AndrewS

Member Since: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Hereford
Posts: 3707

2013 Defender 130 Puma 2.2 SW Rimini Red

Miserableolgit wrote:
Now I know a bloke of unimpeachable integrity who's sister knows someone who has groceries delivered by an old fella who is very friendly with the cousin of someone inside Land Rover [but who obviously needs to remain nameless nudge, nudge, wink wink] who once spoke to a reliable and high up source within the new Defender design team. Now this high up individual says that we are indeed in for something really special in terms of the Defender replacement and that it more than likely run on wheels and have some form of motive power. Specific details will be revealed at an official announcement within the next fifty years....

That the same bloke I know

it is a small world

11th Sep 2013 4:58pm

myonehere

Member Since: 03 Mar 2009
Location: Worcester uk
Posts: 153

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Cairns Blue

for what it may [or not] be worth:-

I did get this today - when I asked someone in LR:-

"...this years [2014] changes are minor - interior trim- There will be a couple of special editions. Next year
will see Roll Stability Control introduced to meet regs, additional
benefit is electronic traction control so better off road. Nothing much
planned until end of prod in '15. There is no replacement planned....."

17th Sep 2013 11:14pm

Sockpuppet

Member Since: 17 Sep 2011
Location: Leicester
Posts: 479

I thought XS already had TC? Maybe that means ABS is being rolled out to all models?

17th Sep 2013 11:41pm

22900013A

Member Since: 23 Dec 2010
Location: Oxfordshire
Posts: 3139

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Keswick Green

My base spec has TC and ABS - they were optional fitments, standard on XS, not sure about County... 2011 110 USW
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1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker
1969 IIA 1-Ton
1966 IIA 88"

18th Sep 2013 8:15am

SteveG

Member Since: 29 Nov 2011
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 656

As far as I am aware of...

ESC is compulsory for all new vehicles sold in EU from 1st Nov 2014

AEBS and LDW compulsory for all new vehicles sold in EU from 1st Nov 2015

ESC - Electronic Stability Control
AEBS - Advanced Emergency Braking System
LDW - Lane Departure Warning

Cheers

Steve

18th Sep 2013 12:18pm

wyvern

Member Since: 14 Dec 2009
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 2068

2012 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Firenze Red

AEBS and LDW compulsory for all new vehicles sold in EU from 1st Nov 2015

AEBS - Advanced Emergency Braking System
LDW - Lane Departure Warning

....Hmm - I can see the issues with LDW on a defender when you manover off the black top onto the mud!!! the warning alarms will go into total shock!!

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18th Sep 2013 12:48pm

Martin
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Member Since: 02 Apr 2007
Location: Hook Norton
Posts: 6478

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Montalcino Red

Those apply to wholly new vehicles (new type approval), rather than a newly built car.

Bit like why Defenders don't have DRLs.

1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top

2015 D90 XS SW

18th Sep 2013 1:20pm

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