Land Rover Defender It needs to be 'awesome' and 'the best off-road' - CarAdvice
The first firm details on the all-new Land Rover Defender are starting to surface ahead of the car’s predicted unveiling in 2016. CarAdvice spoke with two of the best-placed people in the British 4×4 company’s ranks – Land Rover design director... I mean, it absolutely replaces another icon,” said Rogers. You’ve always got to make sure you do the right thing and create the right focus,” he said of the replacement model for the Defender, which will end its 65-year production run this year. “It’s going to be a challenge, to hit the right spot, absolutely,” he said. Rogers is an avid Land Rover enthusiast – he has a collection of Defender models, and is a member of several clubs around the UK – and he said he knows that it’s going to be hard to please everyone with the new model. “I genuinely didn’t make it up – I learned to drive in a Land Rover when I was a kid, so I’ve got a really good feeling about all it can be, and Gerry [McGovern] and myself are very closely aligned on that. McGovern reflected on the past of the Defender, but being a designer his focus is always on how to move things forward. Source: www.caradvice.com.au
