First encounters with the new Land Rover Defender is like meeting a hard-working farming neighbour after they’ve won the Lotto. It also hung around in its previous guise for a lifetime as Land Rover engineers and designers struggled to come up with a significantly modern take that didn’t seem like some motoring pastiche of what was already on sale. Now if you happen to be unlucky enough to be the test driver of that car, that’s quite an extreme input. In the trade-off for tech, Land Rover retained this car’s practicality. As for the more well-heeled rural motorist with land to tend but a budget for Defender, the issue then arises that Land Rover has several models all vying in the same sort of space.

Source: The Irish Times July 08, 2020 04:52 UTC