New Defender - Land rover micro site

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Yes, bog standard, utilitarian work horse that can tow 3.5t, with air con, infotainment system and leather seats for sub £30k. Sounds reasonable to me.[emoji57]

When you were living down here in God's Hemisphere, you would have seen plenty of basic spec steel wheeled vinyl floored work Utes, for work, in company fleets & used by the utilities companies . . .
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
When you were living down here in God's Hemisphere, you would have seen plenty of basic spec steel wheeled vinyl floored work Utes, for work, in company fleets & used by the utilities companies . . .


Most people have high level spec cars, then never use all the gadgets anyway. There's nothing wrong with basic spec. AirCon is the only thing I really value in my car, and I can live without it (don't miss it in the Defender)
 

CornishTone

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BASIS
Location
Cornwall
When you were living down here in God's Hemisphere, you would have seen plenty of basic spec steel wheeled vinyl floored work Utes, for work, in company fleets & used by the utilities companies . . .
I had one for work myself. It was bloody awful with 3.5t up behind though. 1st and reverse were too highly geared really. (Holden Colorado.) But it was perfectly comfy, did circa 40 - 50,000km a year with it.
 
You know, it's possible to buy Toyota Hilux & others in a basic, utilitarian spec, just as everyone here seems to be asking of this new Defender
But does anyone in TFFland buy them ?
Reading various threads it seems like it's the higher spec models people actually buy . . .

Why would you build a basic utilitarian vehicle unless you could sell it in sufficient numbers ?

This is not utilitarian. This is by a company who sell prestige vehicles. How many 50-100K Toyotas have you seen?
Do you see lexus building pick ups?

Why devalue your brand that you have spent millions to create?
 

Robt

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Location
Suffolk
''Built'' not build i think it the correct term... They have stopped production i believe as the project didnt work compared to the success of their commercial panel vans and trucks
 

Nithsdale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Yes but Mercedes cars are pants and they lost the plot with their brand years ago.

I defy anyone to try an explain their model range and even their premium cars depreciate like chocolate ice cream in a broken freezer.


Well try explaining RR/LR model range. They are a basket case company with models fighting for a market share competing directly with their own models for the same market share.

They have lost the plot, and it WILL bite them in the arse eventually.

They are also pants... and the number of broken down/recovered LR/RRs you see is testament to that.
 
Well try explaining RR/LR model range. They are a basket case company with models fighting for a market share competing directly with their own models for the same market share.

They have lost the plot, and it WILL bite them in the arse eventually.

They are also pants... and the number of broken down/recovered LR/RRs you see is testament to that.

Jaguar are competing with Land Rover directly now, bit of a shame I guess.

Land Rover should offer a car that is very much in the mould of the Mini only Britisher.
 

Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
A pickup is not a substitute for a working Defender, approach, ramp and departure angles are all wrong. There is no way I could put my truck with traction control in to the places I had regularly put my 88'' 2A with clunky levers and a sensitive right foot.
My first project with a lottery win would be to find a 2A on military leaf springs and have it restored to shop new state, no mods, extras or additions except free wheel front hubs. It was the perfect off roader.
Wires don't break on sliding windows.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 35.1%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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