Hi klarie,
For the last 20+ years I was driving 40K+ kilometers per year for business reason. So many traffic jams I stuck in, and I always wished I could leave the Autobahn and drive across the country to shorten waiting time or to find another road.
When LR announced the termination of Defender production, my wife and I (=we) had a close look-and-feel and a test drive (on-road) with one of the farewell edition models. Well, the look-and-feel were good, but to be honest, we didn’t like the drive very much. For us it felt like driving a vintage car pimped with some up-to-date features.
The first pics of the successor of the LR Defender looked too modern to us, like a piece of soap, like all the other LRs.
The first pics of the IG instead made us happy; it looked modern and familiar at the same time.
Last Saturday we had a close look-and-feel at our local IG dealer, a test drive will follow. The look-and-feel was gourgeous. Now we would name us IGLovers, even before test driving.
On Sunday we ordered an IG Trialmaster Diesel, magic mushroom with some extras. Dealer said that it will take minimum 12 month until delivery, so a lot of time of anticipation.
Yes, we never went off-road before, I won’t count the unpaved roads in AUS, USA, CAN and RSA as off-road, because they still were roads.
Future will show if I/we really do a lot of off-road with the IG, because we're having no off-road experience so far. But it’s never too late to start into unknown areas.
I hope that "look-and-feel" is an English expression and not a pseudo-anglicism.
