DC100 is scoring a 4.08 average...
We're not sure what constitutes a
'the beginning of a four year design journey'
is concerned, but PHers have turned out in droves to be, er, lukewarm about the new Defender concept.
Due to be unveiled at Frankfurt, but revealed in pictures yesterday, the Land Rover DC100 has already attracted more votes than any other poll on the P.H. O'Meter over the last six months - 1,242 respondents and counting - garnering an average score of just 4.07 out of 10. (At the time of writing, obviously...)
That's a big sample where 'focus groups' are concerned, and while the PH audience isn't necessarily representative of the world outside (well, some of us are a bit weird), to put that result into context the current Defender notched up a score of 8.7 when we added it to our long term fleet as a tow car for the PH Caterham racer.
...while the 'Cracker Car' scored 4.4
Amusingly (or not!), the new concept has even been rated lower than the 'push-me-pull-me' Landie we found on eBay a while ago -
which rated 4.4 out of 10
, albeit with a much smaller voter turnout.
So where does this leave the DC100? Well maybe JLR shouldn't give up on it yet, because Kilometer magazine has independently commissioned a few rendered variations on the show car's theme - and here at PH Towers we think the mock-ups look pretty good, from their side elevations at least.
So could seeing a crew cab and 'station wagon' version be enough to turn the tide in the new concept's favour?
![Click to enlarge Five-door rendered by KM magazine...](http://images.pistonheads.com/nimg/24243/lrlwb-t.jpg) Five-door rendered by KM magazine...
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![Click to enlarge ...who've also done a double-cab](http://images.pistonheads.com/nimg/24243/lrcrew-t.jpg) ...who've also done a double-cab
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Meanwhile, in case anyone is wondering, the next highest voter turnouts on the P.H. O'Meter in the last six months have been the PH Hero 205 GTI with 964 votes (scoring 8.83 out of 10), the Alfa Reveals 4C Concept article with 942 votes (scoring 8.88), the Lambo Aventador Revealed article with 866 votes (scoring 9.02), and the Singer 911 Picture Gallery with 833 votes (scoring 9.21).
In terms of top scorers, the results for the last six months look like this:
1st place - Scoring 9.39, the Mazda 787B Reunion - video (294 votes)
2nd place - Scoring 9.38, the Epic Mazda 787B Rides Again (444 votes)
3rd place - Scoring 9.35, Spotted: Ferrari F40 (616 votes)
Obviously all the above have been live on the site for varying time periods, so it's difficult to be too conclusive about the results. The biggest poll yet is 2,200 respondents for our Singer 'Re-Imagines' The Porsche 911 article, but that one has been collecting votes since Sept 2009.