Land Rover's re-engineered Defenders V8 model has officially sold out just one month after it was announced.
The model was launched to celebrate the brand's 70th birthday and uses 5.0-litre V8 engine to make it the most powerful and fastest yet made.
The 90in wheelbase model, which can hit 60mph from rest in 5.6sec, is going to be produced in just 150 examples.
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The Defender Works V8 produces 399bhp and 380lb ft, dwarfing the output of the discontinued standard Defender, which made just 120bhp and 266lb ft.
Land Rover said the new car pays homage to early high-powered engines such as the Series III Stage V8 and the 50th Anniversary Edition. The Defender Works V8 is the first official V8 Defender to be launched since 1998.
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The re-engineered Defenders use an eight-speed ZF automatic transmission with sport mode, along with uprated brakes, a handling kit consisting of springs, dampers and anti-roll bars, and exclusive 18in alloys with 265/65 tyres.
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And why....?
Weren't they making these all along? There's your profit margin right there. No different to what MB were doing with the G63. Now they discover a sold out market after canning the car.
Product Design madness.
Hmmmm.........
Why couldn’t they just build a thousand original ones....?, wouldn’t they sell?, surely People who owned the original way back would be tempted?, I& they made a thousand they could be sold at a price where most could afford to buy one?, at the silly price they’re asking and limited numbers they’ll sell to Emirates rich People, it’s not meant to be a Luxury Car it’s supposed to be a working utility ehicle.
Peter Cavellini wrote:
Surely that would just be continuing or restarting normal production. Production had to due to regulations.
Marc wrote:
Had to *end*
Well of course they are sold
Well of course they are sold out. It is beyond comprehension that LR didn't realise they could do this before, just as MB did with the G. Idiots...
eseaton wrote:
That they are all sold out is perhaps not the issue, that they would sell was never in doubt. One should ask, should it have been sold in the first place? Cunt...
That's a bit harsh, if
But if they could sell the things so easily for £150k, why didn't they do it before?
A complete lack of vision.
eseaton wrote:
It would seem so...
How's the monkey crusade going?
Foresight more than lack of vision. Wait for the nostalgia to build and cash in.
But the question that should be asked is, should they have made it all?
The monkey crusade is not
Autocar have shamefully decided it is not in their commercial interest to acknowledge it happened.
My little protest is therefore to pick up Car instead of Autocar, as they did have the integrity to write about it.
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www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/volkswagen-bmw-and-daimler-diesel-mo...