New defender 10/9/19

[manfromhill]

You boys with deposits down starting to feel like Christmas Eve

 

[Chris F]

Should be able to embed the launch on here, but the pictures are already on the other thread.

We should get pricing tomorrow too.

 

[manfromhill]

Prices might b more interesting

 

[Chris F]

Prices might b more interesting

Pricing in SA seems to suggest will start at £45K. People have been saying for ages you will be able to spend £75k plus on one.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Pricing in SA seems to suggest will start at £45K. People have been saying for ages you will be able to spend £75k plus on one.

Can’t see them selling many at that price, at least not to the extent that they are the most common vehicle seen hooked to trailers in livestock markets up and down the country as the old land rovers once were.

 

[farenheit]

Can’t see them selling many at that price, at least not to the extent that they are the most common vehicle seen hooked to trailers in livestock markets up and down the country as the old land rovers once were.

Not the target market not the target market not the target market

 

[Tarw Coch]

Not the target market not the target market not the target market

No sh!t Sherlock ?

 

[rob1]

some folk must have more money than sense or is it little dick syndrome

 

[Chris F]

Can’t see them selling many at that price, at least not to the extent that they are the most common vehicle seen hooked to trailers in livestock markets up and down the country as the old land rovers once were.

They have zero interest in advertising on here or even letting us test one. I have asked several times. So I think you are right - they have more important markets than farmers.

 

[Robt]

Who would want to sell to farmers! #Tinhaton #popcornattheready!

 

[Chris F]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2480763455513677

 

[Jim B]

Any prices yet?

 

[Chris F]

Yep you can spec one here:

https://buildyour.landrover.co.uk/lr2/r/model/_/en_gb/l663_k20/4pbir/a-x/?utm_source=TheFarmingForum

 

[Drillman]

Quite like it but, Start price is double what you can get a well specced 4 door pickup for.

I’m out.....

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Quite like it but, Start price is double what you can get a well specced 4 door pickup for.

I’m out.....

Had a promo text from ford last week - 2019 ranger wildtrack from £21,300.


So, unless you go for a commercial version (is that even an option?) why have a defender over a disco /sport?

 

[PSQ]

If the design team were asked to make a new generation of the old Defender...









- Why did they choose to make a new version of the Nissan Cube ???

 

[Chris F]

Quite like it but, Start price is double what you can get a well specced 4 door pickup for.

I’m out.....

I think it looks amazing. From the video there will be a 90 commercial. Config says starts from £40,500, but can't be config'ed yet.

Second hand they might well compete with pickups!

 

[JP1]

Throwing the door open for Ineos in my book



Ineos' Own-Brand Land Rover Could be Built in Wales
By Gary Cutlack on 19 Aug 2019 at 11:30AM
Ineos and its billionaire owner Jim Ratcliffe may soon have good news for the car builders of south Wales, as reports suggest the startup carmaker could be about to start building in Bridgend; where it could produce the 'Projekt Grenadier' 4x4 vehicle it's been developing for some time.
Projekt Grenadier came about because Ratcliffe was a bit miffed about Land Rover ending production of the classic Defender, so, being a billionaire of the Tony Stark type, he decided he could make his own version of the timeless offroader. The Mail on Sunday says Ratcliffe is now in "advanced talks" with the Welsh government about the move to establish a base in Bridgend, presumably meaning there's some financial incentive being waved around in order to locate a new manufacturing business in the region.
It would come at a good time for the workers of Bridgend too, as the town is about to lose the building business of Ford, which is pulling out of its own site there in 2020. Ineos has said it would like to produce 25,000 cars a year in a distant future, should it get things together enough to disrupt the off road sector. Its web site at the moment is full of photos of Land Rovers, wild dreams and job adverts for industrial designers, so it's got some way to go yet. [Wales Online]


I bet you'd still get waves from drivers of the Ratcliffe product long after the yuppies deserted the cause with the new LR product

 

[Johnnyboxer]

 

[1594mac]

Well I cant see may farmer wanting to get that dirty, scrapped, used as a block for the moving of cattle looking like urban users are going to be the mainstay of customers! It looks to me like an enlarged mini. Time will tell but I'm not overly impressed more poser than practical