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Location: Chester
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Jonty..................sorry but this is being built for the highways, byway and freeways of UK, Europe and the states
not for serious use in the outback our the Okavango Delta this is purely stockbroker belt and school run material,
Oh and when there's as many Land Cruisers knocking about as Land Rovers then you can tell me how good they are! you can do anything when your cars fitted with diff locks as standard!!!
9th Apr 2009 7:32 pm
Jonty
Member Since: 13 Oct 2007
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PaulnhisGirls wrote:
Jonty..................sorry but this is being built for the highways, byway and freeways of UK, Europe and the states, not for serious use in the outback our the Okavango Delta .......
Why do you say that - because it has a nice interior and painted bumpers?
Anyway, it's a free world - if you like it, buy it, if you don't then buy something else.
9th Apr 2009 7:43 pm
PaulnhisGirls
Member Since: 17 Nov 2006
Location: Chester
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Thats my point, it's not my choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's not my choice to have THE BEST FOUR BY FOUR BY FAR dressed as a whore!
9th Apr 2009 7:45 pm
adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
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Tallulah - interesting name for a hard driving, off roading, no fearing, 4x4
9th Apr 2009 7:49 pm
ronp
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ronp wrote:
PaulnhisGirls wrote:
...........................Am I the only dissenting voice here? !
Nope ... your not!
ronp wrote:
I think it looks sh t.
I still think it looks sh t...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
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9th Apr 2009 7:49 pm
PaulnhisGirls
Member Since: 17 Nov 2006
Location: Chester
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Adam......your Daughters never name things then?
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9th Apr 2009 7:51 pm
adam
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Yeah - fair point
Personally - I think it looks OK, I remember first seeing D3 in magazine in summer 2004 and thought - wow - never really thought about car of that type before, now, wouldnt trade it for anything - apart from a D4 when I can get some £££'s together
9th Apr 2009 7:55 pm
blue meanie D3 Decade
Member Since: 04 Aug 2005
Location: Newbury
Posts: 6861
ronp wrote:
ronp wrote:
PaulnhisGirls wrote:
...........................Am I the only dissenting voice here? !
Nope ... your not!
ronp wrote:
I think it looks sh t.
I still think it looks sh t
I think it looks great
in the right colour...and theeeeennn......???
9th Apr 2009 7:58 pm
MacLeod 313
Member Since: 18 Apr 2008
Location: away
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Agree with Ronp, and bored of it now.............................
It seems to me that there will be a leap in gadgets, and refinement. Lets see how many will want to mod one, or regularly off road it, or are will all being fooled. Could the D3 still be produced alongside the D4, Peugeot still make the 206 and the 207.
To me, if I wanted that level of trim n gadgets I will go for a FFRR, or RRS. If I want a mudplugger then its my current D3 or a Defender.
My opinion and sticking to it.
9th Apr 2009 8:13 pm
nigelc
Member Since: 16 Apr 2008
Location: leicestershire
Posts: 267
PaulnhisGirls wrote:
...........................Am I the only dissenting voice here? Why the hell have they turned a functional on/off road vehicle into another Range Rover Clone?????? if you want a range rover sports Buy One!
Cant see the wheel arch eyebrows or the lower bumper plastics lasting long on a green lane and I dread to think what that interior will look like after a run round the forest in Wales.
Not wanting to appear as a Luddite but for me this is a step backwards, I will definitely be sticking with Tallulah instead of rushing off to my dealership!
No, I'm with you entirely - it really annoys me the number of comments on the "Car" website talking about the "poor quality interior" I said in previous posts, wood and leather don't mix with mud, salt water, dogs, sharp bits of dinghy spars etc. The original D3 interior design is a masterpiece of chunky functionality - I don't think D4 is aimed at me - I'll be aiming to keep Katie till she dissolves. Maybe the next Defender will suit my needs better.
9th Apr 2009 8:17 pm
Marmoset
Member Since: 28 May 2007
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 282
Not a fan myself - it lacks the purity and utter sense of purpose of the original. I suppose it's a function of the need to tone the cars size down to appease the pc brigade.
Even the interior doesn't do it for me. The genius behind the D3 design, to my mind, was that it was so 'from follows function' and I think it's been diluted too much - I suspect that the D4 won't age as gracefully as the D3.
9th Apr 2009 8:40 pm
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Its a fair comment that the D4 has more refinement than the D3, far plusher etc, however was the D3 not so over the D2 when it was first introduced. D3 owners now go off road in style compared to D2 owners. will D4 owners inevitably now simply be able to go off road in even greater style???
9th Apr 2009 8:58 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
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Marmoset wrote:
it lacks the purity and utter sense of purpose of the original
And thats a statement that could be level at every mid-life facelift model from every manufacturer
Sadly the economics of attempting it will stop it but there's an argument that goes "retain the D3 in Commercial and GS trim levels" and everyone else has to buy a D4 for the toys.Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
If I want a mudplugger then its my current D3 or a Defender.
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9th Apr 2009 10:29 pm
DaveT
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Location: Cornwall
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Go on then MacLeod, plug it into some mud
Are you sure a D4 doesn't suit you better Long succession of Disco's since 2001...
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