Leaked information reveals plans for Eight-seat Land Rover Defender 130
Land Rover’s Defender will spawn a redesigned mannequin later this 12 months, which would be the first time for the reason that iconic off-roader was launched greater than three many years in the past.
Prototypes for each a short-wheelbase, Three-door “Defender 90” and standard-wheelbase, 5-door “Defender 110” have been noticed, matching the unique Defender 90 and 110 fashions.
Nonetheless, leaked data from what seems to be an inside presentation, printed by the Disco4 Boards on Friday, reveals plans for a 3rd mannequin, a long-wheelbase “Defender 130” fitted with as much as eight seats. This mannequin would span 200.7 inches in size, although its claimed wheelbase of 119 inches equals the Defender 110 mannequin, suggesting that the Defender 130 would function an extra-long caboose.
The leaked data reveals that the Defender 130 will arrive in August 2020 as a 2021 mannequin, with the Defender 90 arriving in October as a 2020 mannequin and the Defender 110 arriving in March 2020, additionally as a 2020 mannequin.
Land Rover Defender design proven in instrument cluster – Picture through landroverphotoalbum/Instagram
There’s additionally affirmation of a 6-strong powertrain lineup consisting of three gasoline engines and three diesels. Essentially the most potent powertrains are present in P400 and P400e grades. The P400 encompasses a Three.Zero-liter turbocharged inline-6 whereas the P400e encompasses a plug-in hybrid setup pairing a 2.Zero-liter turbocharged inline-Four with an electrical motor. In each instances you are greater than 400 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque.
Land Rover had deliberate to have its redesigned Defender prepared shortly after the manufacturing of the unique ceased in early 2016. The automaker even previewed a brand new design for the Defender in 2011 with its DC100 idea automobile. The unique plan was to launch an reasonably priced, go-anywhere automobile alongside the traces of the Jeep Wrangler or Toyota FJ Cruiser however the idea didn’t show fashionable and the undertaking acquired delayed whereas Land Rover shaped a brand new thought.
That new thought has seen the redesigned Defender transfer right into a place between Land Rover’s mainstream Discovery and upmarket Vary Rover. And much more physique kinds are regarded as coming to enchantment to lifestyle-oriented consumers. These are anticipated to incorporate a pickup and a model with a detachable roof.
We additionally know that manufacturing of the redesigned Defender will happen at Land Rover’s plant in Slovakia, and never the standard house of Solihull, United Kingdom.
