RE: Land Rover revives the V8 Defender

[pirategaz]

I dont care about the reason, or the marketing strategy, I dont even care about the price Im just glad thats its not dead just yet!!!
150 more Defenders in the world puts a smile on my face!!

[TooMany2cvs]

pirategaz said:

Im just glad thats its not dead just yet!!!
150 more Defenders in the world puts a smile on my face!!

There isn't. They're second-hand Pumas JLR have bought back.

[GTEYE]

If I had to have a Defender, isn't this closer to what its really all about, and a properly new car.....oh and £100k less!

Yes there's no V8, but lets not try and pretend a Defender is a rival to a G Wagon

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

[NomduJour]

GTEYE said:

Yes there's no V8, but lets not try and pretend a Defender is a rival to a G Wagon

Exactly, a Defender doesn’t have the same awful image for a start.

[jason61c]

NomduJour said:

Exactly, a Defender doesn’t have the same awful image for a start.

Until right now

[James-18yd2]

Omg. Wet myself reading this article. Who in their right mind would buy an old land rover for 150,000! Surely the legal system should use this as a definitive test for insanity if one was remotely keen to part with money for it...

[RoverP6B]

NomduJour said:

GTEYE said:

Yes there's no V8, but lets not try and pretend a Defender is a rival to a G Wagon

Exactly, a Defender doesn’t have the same awful image for a start.

Sorry, yes it does. Defenders, in the last 5 years, have gone from being utilitarian 4x4s to vlogger ttmobiles.

TooMany2cvs said:

pirategaz said:

Im just glad thats its not dead just yet!!!
150 more Defenders in the world puts a smile on my face!!

There isn't. They're second-hand Pumas JLR have bought back.

Eh?! So JLR is buying back Defenders, re-engine-ing them and selling them as new?! Surely that's fraud!

[Phil Dicky]

RoverP6B said:

NomduJour said:

GTEYE said:

Yes there's no V8, but lets not try and pretend a Defender is a rival to a G Wagon

Exactly, a Defender doesn’t have the same awful image for a start.

Sorry, yes it does. Defenders, in the last 5 years, have gone from being utilitarian 4x4s to vlogger ttmobiles.

TooMany2cvs said:

pirategaz said:

Im just glad thats its not dead just yet!!!
150 more Defenders in the world puts a smile on my face!!

There isn't. They're second-hand Pumas JLR have bought back.

Eh?! So JLR is buying back Defenders, re-engine-ing them and selling them as new?! Surely that's fraud!

Read the article again

[RoverP6B]

Hmm - I think that's an edit made to the article since I read it... it still stinks IMO.

[TooMany2cvs]

RoverP6B said:

Hmm - I think that's an edit made to the article since I read it...

Yep, we did that a couple of pages back...

RoverP6B said:

it still stinks IMO.

<shrug> They're open about it, so...? If you don't like it, buy a v8-upgraded second-hand Defender from somebody else.

[Too Drunk to Funk]

£150,000?

[rouflab]

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL £150000.. LOL LOL LOL LOLLOL no doubt some fools will be easily parted with their money

[DonkeyApple]

rouflab said:

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL £150000.. LOL LOL LOL LOLLOL no doubt some fools will be easily parted with their money

The irony obviously being that the chap with £150k to throw at a pointless bit of pure fun is going to be the abject opposite of a fool.

Fools are people who walk into a Ladbrokes with the cash they need for their weekly food shop. A fool is the chap who borrows money to buy something he can’t afford. The world is full of fools but the chap who has acquired enough wealth that he can throw £150k at a frivolous toy for the hell of it really isn’t going to be one of them.

[TooMany2cvs]

It's not even as if it's £150k straight down the drain. What'll it be worth in <say> two years when a different toy catches the eye? Even if it depreciates, it'll probably still be a reasonable chunk.

[Too Drunk to Funk]

DonkeyApple said:

The irony obviously being that the chap with £150k to throw at a pointless bit of pure fun is going to be the abject opposite of a fool.

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How very judgemental of you. Could have won Euromillions or have rich parents. Maybe he should pay a bit more tax than he does.

[V10 SPM]

Remember that £150k is just the "starting from" price. There is also a 110 model that'll cost even more.

[NomduJour]

Too Drunk to Funk said:

How very judgemental of you. Could have won Euromillions or have rich parents. Maybe he should pay a bit more tax than he does.

Spare me.

[Too Drunk to Funk]

Pericoloso said:

"We've finished production of Defender "

Some months later......

"Apart from these 150 units to charge a silly amount of money for"

It's a bit like Pagani......"this is definitely the last of the line Zonda"......except for the next one.

A fool and their money and all that...

[FiF]

School of thought going around is that it's simply a marketing ploy to keep the Defender name in the public eye, and the from 150,000 smackeroonies is to manage expectations when the price of the new Defender is announced.

Still not figured out some of the issues on the body panels, it's already seriously overweight apparently, and despite the claim it will be all alloy, it's not been possible to fabricate certain panels with sufficient strength without internal raw steel bracing bonded in. Roof still a big issue recently as last month, talk of fixing just that would add 50kg. Seems implausible to me, but who knows.

So overweight and overpriced. But it will have magnificent articulation, so that will please the nutters in 20th hand jacked up Discoveries. Be really good for bouncing up the kerb outside Fortnum's.

[BugLebowski]

FiF said:

But it will have magnificent articulation, so that will please the nutters in 20th hand jacked up Discoveries.

I do get a chuckle out of the 'one life, live it' crowd who think they should be the target audience.