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A lot has been said about the new Land Rover ever since its release last year, and not all of it was good. If you want a better way to visualize a timeline of the public's opinion on the British SUV, imagine a pyramid.
Things didn't start great. The initial reactions - at least those that made the biggest ripples - were of anger at the company's decision to forgo the original model's recipe. Instead of a basic, rugged, affordable off-roader, the new Defender was only one of those three, and its hardcore fans weren't happy about it.
Then, people got to test drive it, and it immediately became obvious that just because it was larger and more luxurious, it didn't mean it had lost any of its off-roading abilities. Quite the contrary, actually. Thanks to its air suspension, the ground clearance could get to dizzying heights, whereas the Terrain Response system made short work of the most difficult surface, somehow finding traction even where it looked like there was none on a ten-mile radius. The new Defender was riding on a newly found wave of popularity.
And then the TFL situation broke out, and everyone's fears came to reality. We were all reminded this was, after all, a Land Rover, so it was bound to suffer from reliability issues. All of a sudden, the new Defender wasn't a good off-roader anymore. Why? Because people can't see nuances these days: it's either one way or the other.
Well, if the new Defender isn't any good off-road, then maybe one could find other uses for it. How about slamming the hell out of it and giving it a proper stance by widening its tracks? That sounds like a very good way to go from "off-road" to "just one inch off the road," which is how you could describe this rendering's front bumper.
You might not go crazy for what this transformation stands for, but you have to agree it has one hell of a color scheme. The army kaki of the body goes extremely well with the orange accents. Each color is somehow specific to the two conflicting segments of the car world that have been fused into this: orange for the asphalt-splitting speed, olive for the nature-cruising off-roader.
The body appears to have suffered only one modification: the square extension of the wheel arches to make room for the coil-over shocks. Other than that, it was just a case of adding stuff, rather than removing it: a total of twelve extra lights (four on the nose, eight above the windscreen) and a roll cage inside.
We feel we can't allow you to browse through the pictures without talking about one more thing first: look how much the new Land Rover Defender's rear resembles the classic Ferrari 250 GTO's when you remove the spare wheel. Who would have thought the design of these two models will ever be mentioned in the same sentence?
Then, people got to test drive it, and it immediately became obvious that just because it was larger and more luxurious, it didn't mean it had lost any of its off-roading abilities. Quite the contrary, actually. Thanks to its air suspension, the ground clearance could get to dizzying heights, whereas the Terrain Response system made short work of the most difficult surface, somehow finding traction even where it looked like there was none on a ten-mile radius. The new Defender was riding on a newly found wave of popularity.
And then the TFL situation broke out, and everyone's fears came to reality. We were all reminded this was, after all, a Land Rover, so it was bound to suffer from reliability issues. All of a sudden, the new Defender wasn't a good off-roader anymore. Why? Because people can't see nuances these days: it's either one way or the other.
Well, if the new Defender isn't any good off-road, then maybe one could find other uses for it. How about slamming the hell out of it and giving it a proper stance by widening its tracks? That sounds like a very good way to go from "off-road" to "just one inch off the road," which is how you could describe this rendering's front bumper.
You might not go crazy for what this transformation stands for, but you have to agree it has one hell of a color scheme. The army kaki of the body goes extremely well with the orange accents. Each color is somehow specific to the two conflicting segments of the car world that have been fused into this: orange for the asphalt-splitting speed, olive for the nature-cruising off-roader.
The body appears to have suffered only one modification: the square extension of the wheel arches to make room for the coil-over shocks. Other than that, it was just a case of adding stuff, rather than removing it: a total of twelve extra lights (four on the nose, eight above the windscreen) and a roll cage inside.
We feel we can't allow you to browse through the pictures without talking about one more thing first: look how much the new Land Rover Defender's rear resembles the classic Ferrari 250 GTO's when you remove the spare wheel. Who would have thought the design of these two models will ever be mentioned in the same sentence?
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