My 110 was white... pin striping was still visible. What paint/colour can put up with this treatment and still look OK? Just my view.
Looks like my 200 series..............couldn't agree more
My 200 is going in for a respray, gone too far unfortunately
Doh, beat me to it!
Wrap it! you know you want to!
Its already sold to my son, he can do what he likes with it, but insurance has taken care of the $7k bill fortunately, care of an incident on the Holland TrackWrap it! you know you want to!
I'm glad you got out there. Probably the biggest shortcoming for me is the lack of cargo length. Have a look at how much longer the rear window is on the defender. It's pretty close to the same length.. they have traded it into the cabin. I guess you can't have both.
That looks perfect for what I need with the seats folding flat and the tie down rings almost central on the lower C pillar, great for my extra fridge etc, better than removing seats like I have to in the LC
Move the tyre carrier to centre of the door more you'd fit a 35"Ok, my take on a second drive.
No tarmac. Spoke to a couple of the boys who had driven them to Townsville and back on the highway (2,700km return) and they were really happy with the road driving. One stretch from Melbourne to Brisbane non stop of 19 hours in the seat (shared driving) and the seats are great. They also mentioned you can push them a bit into the corners and they hold stability surprisingly well given what they are. Again assured me we’d be happy with their capability as long distance tourers.
Australian cars will come with rear nato plug and 13pin Euro trailer connectors.
The 4wd track at Mt Cotton was much better than Mt Tambourine. Not particularly difficult really although a little slip and slide, but more representative of the offroading most would do here.
One great steep down hill decent with a bend mid way that was done in centre locked 1st low range. Done with no acceleration and no brake it decended at about 5-6km/hr and whilst it wasn’t as good as a good manual 1st gear it was pretty close. Impressive and better than my 200 auto in terms of holding speed.
In low auto uphill and flat I was surprised at how well it held the lower gears and didn’t try to hunt up and down all the time. When driving with minimal acceleration (which was great by the way and not jerky at all) it maintained 1st and 2nd well without getting into a higher gear prematurely. But at the same time it didn’t rev itself unnecessarily either.
In low range traction control etc is disconnected .
Overall a much better test to get a feel for how it goes offroad. I didn’t get any wheels off the ground at any stage (that I recall) but it felt tight everywhere I pointed it despite intentionally getting off line as often as I could.
Tyres. Pic below- I’m doubtful you could put a 33” tyre on the spare and open the door - there’s probably only an inch of leeway to work with. So adjusting the location of the spare somehow would be needed.
Colour. In overcast skies the silver seems very blue. And whilst the Scottish white is very creamy, I really like it in the flesh and will change colour from Silver to White if I’m able to.
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Nice and honest review I am just south of you in ocean shores I was one of the very first to make an order about 2 and a half years ago so mine is due maybe in the next 2 months. so looking forwad to it it has already gone up 13 k. It has been an uphill battle with the wife she hates it and will use any excuse like we cant afford it and you never go offroad anyway which does have some merit. But I am 70 y.o just retired that is all the reason I need. This car will become a classic and my kids will benifit. I am a big guy 6'3" I did have some driver-seat issues that I think can be modified to suit for a small cost the pedal position for me was fine just lack of leg support Recaro got it wrong by not adding tilting of the seat people under 6' will not have a problem. It will be interesting to watch what other people do to modify their own grenadier as these vehicles will be so much fun to customise. Let me know when you are expecting. cheers
@OzyGrenie Yep - I didn't look to see how it was attached, and whether you could actually alter the fitting. Anyway, given its current ground clearance I'll probably run the 31's until they're close to buggered and then sort it from there. Lot's of people would have had it sorted by then.
my wife sticks the '....and you've ordered a bespoke car for yourself...' whenever she can. I keep saying it's not bespoke just optioned a bit like most new cars, she's not having it.
A "me too" effect? I want a new car too?
The one advantage of the IG is you can sleep in it - even outside of your own house when needs be !!!
