icanshootwell
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You must have some peculiar body shape that suits sitting on the floor with hardly any vehicle suspension. Or perhaps you only drive on nice smooth roads rather than rough farm tracks? Its only quite lately that the HiLux has become somewhat more civilised.
The LR may be short of room and not the safest vehicle in the world, but at least it has a suspension worth calling a suspension. Its not for someone waiting for a hip or knee replacement operation though, I'll give you that.
Yes, the old Defender body is thirty years behind the times. Yes pickup suspension and 4wd design is mostly also thirty years behind the times. However, pickups sell in their millions worldwide while LR only managed to sell about 14,000 Defenders worldwide annually in the last decade until the hype about the end of production kicked in.
They are all tools for a job. The new one will be a toy for big boy's playpens.