The presentation of the new Land Rover Defender should take place by the end of 2018 during the celebration of the seventy year of the company. At the same time, the British automaker plans to demonstrate immediately the finished serial version of the jeep, which will receive the design style in accordance with the modern style of the brand.
The SUV with the code name L663 with the Land Rover brand will be erected on the enhanced variation of the d7u aluminum platform, which is used in the executions of off -road cars Range Rover, Discovery, Range Rover Sport. In this case, two options for the wheelbase will be saved. In addition, pickups may appear in the model line, as well as variations with soft and hard roofs.
It is also noted that the new Defender SUV, in terms of geometric patency parameters, should take first place in the classroom, and the new Discovery should surpass the new Discovery model in terms of the number of off -road technologies based on the Terrain Response II system. At the same time, ordinary, luxury and hardcore modifications for off -road should appear in implementation. The jeep will preserve the longitudinal layout of the power unit and a handout with a lowering.
The new Land Rover Defender must get a spring independent suspension similar to the basic variation of the past Discovery 4. Under the hood of the jeep, four -cylinder diesel engines and gasoline units of the new Ingenium family will be placed with a complement by mechanical boxes or machine guns. Also, the new Defender will borrow many electronic systems from the Velar crossover.
There is a chance that the next Land Rover Defender will be produced at the new enterprise of the British automaker in Slovakia, which will reduce the costs. For the successful existence of the company’s model, it is necessary to implement a new SUV by the number of within hundreds of thousands of units annually, since the former defender was sold by the manufacturer at a loss of an annual amount of less than 20 thousand units. Sales of the new Land Rover Defender should start in 2019.
