Not true.
I'm on my second after 3 flawless years in a 110. This time around, I went with a 90 with the 4 cyl and full off road packs, plus factory-applied PPF. It's light years ahead of my last LR4 and more versatile than most vehicles I've owned. I've taken my "New" Defenders in places my Tdi 110s and 90s would never go... and find the interior to be the most comfortable and usable, with an utter lack of carpets and leather. After 35 years of LR ownership (and at least 25 of various models and configurations), I feel confident in saying so with first-hand experience.
My Grenadier is a different vehicle altogether - at least for my purposes.
You are entirely correct, Grenadier and new Defender and different vehicles altogether, to a lot of us that's because JLR got it wrong with the new Defender, but then again, if JLR did get it right, Ineos wouldn't have made the Grenadier, gotta love the irony
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I agree with the sentiment that the new Defender would have been better branded as the new Discovery, and the Defender update should have been much more in keeping with the original, like Mercedes did when updating the G-Wagon.
I'm not disputing that the new defender is a very good and very capable vehicle, but, put simply, it is no longer a Defender. IMO, it's now pretty much the same as the rest of the JLR stable of vehicles, and importantly, it appeals much more to that market than the serious 4x4 / touring market, which is a shame because it is the end of an era.
But then, it has resulted in the start of the Ineos Automotive era, so I can't complain
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I can only think that JLR was expecting the new Defender to be received much more enthusiastically by the 4x4 community, they just got it very wrong, and have pretty much lost not only an entire market, but the legacy of what Defender used to be.
