Land Rover Defender |Hugely Desirable, Capable, Practical & Fun | Ujjwal Ghosh

 Hi guys and welcome to another blog,

Today I had brought the all new Land Rover Defender for you, the car which is hugely impressive has a character, highly capable and muscular road presence. This car will make you look back to it in every given time. 

Firstly lets start with the key, this gets a regular Land Rover key, Land Rover written on it and on other side there are 4 buttons for lock/unlock the car, on/off the lights and to release the electric tail gate.

Lets Start with The Walk around 

And my Goddness this car looks so freaking tall with that off-road height, it is 2 meters wide, 5 meters long and has a wheel base of 3 meters, this is the defender 110. Under the hood it says Land Rover engineum, hydraulic struts, insulation is there affcourse but the engine bay is not as massive as the car is massive in itself. At the front DEFENDER is written in black with black grill but grill is sleek with Land Rover logo on left side. Lower down it gets skid plate with a camera, 4 front parking sensors and a massive bumper with very small fog lamps. The whole design has done to give it an excellent approach angle, departure angle and take over angle. 

Now the only resemblance with the old defender is the round lights, the lights does gets matrix function but in the lower variants its all LED with circular DRL and a 2 dot for indicator. But the design of this car is 10/10. The bonnet gets black plastic treatment on both sides to make us climb on it with a ease.

Before coming to the side let me tell you the size of the tire, these are massive 20 inch wheels with 255 60 / 20 is the size of the tire and the alloy wheel design is also nice they have a mat grey sort of paint. BTW here you could see the wheel arches which are again massive, from here you can see the air suspensions. 

The fender from both the sides has fake stuff happening only one side is functional, this is done to maintain symmetry of the car. The car is humongous from the side with that offroad height and with the 3 meters of wheel base, these suppose to be the Defender 110, the defender 90 gets a shorter wheel base with 2 doors on it. Anyways, you get indicators on the ORVMs and the ORVMs get memory function, heated function with a puddle lamp along with a camera too. The roof rails are finished in black and the roof itself can take 300 Kg, that's a lot of weight and there is also a panoramic sun roof for the win. 

Meanwhile the A and B pillar along with the D pillar are finished in gloss black but the C pillar is finished in the body color of the car, the window line is also surrounded with gloss black treatment and looks stunning, again at the top you get a shark fin antina which is not just and antina as it got a camera right there, which shows the rear traffic in the IRVM as the rear has a massive spare wheel hanging, that might block the view from the IRVM, a very well thought of a feature. An interesting thing happens to be this car doesn't stay as connected as its predecessor as this got a monocoque chassis where the previous one's got a body on frame platform.  

Coming to the rear, it get a massive tail gate mounted spare wheel, alloy aff-course because if you are in the middle in nowhere then you do need a full size spare wheel, that's what Land Rover believes. Lower down, the rear bumper is finished in grey with skid plate. There itself is the reverse parking camera along with a spray to clean it, there are 4 parking sensors and a handle to open the tail gate of the car. the lights are in square shape, indicators got separate dots same is the case with brake lights too. However from the first go you will not find the rear wiper as it is hidden behind the spare wheel, Land Rover simply loves to hide the wipers

Getting inside the first thing is the boot. Now the tail gate opens side ways which might be a problem in city areas, but the door is light thanks to the hydraulics, the door itself gets some storage space into it, and with the all three rows up there is only 180 liters of boot space available. Meanwhile at the boot itself you got controls for increase or decrease the ride height to put in luggage comfortably, also there is a button which is there for the toughing hook which make the car weighs more than 3 tones, that's again is a lot of weight.

However I feel this car has a useless 3rd row of seats as there is not much knee room or leg room, under thigh support is not a concept there, so children will also avoid to sit there, still you get rear AC vents with blower controls and cup holders along with bottle holders and a 12-volt charging socket. 

Lets get in the rear seat, they can be folded in 60:40 option and are also reclining and also slidable, but at this price point I except electric adjust for sure. The door opens wide enough and the door is full of rubber and plastic of good quality, which is suitable for offroad conditions, Climbing inside is not an issue as there is a big grab handle in the B-pillar, meanwhile this car is a charging station with as just behind the driver and co-driver seats there is USB socket along with a holder if you so wish to mount a tablet or an I-[pad, they also gets magazine holders behind each seats.  Good amount of knee room, leg room and under thigh support, head room is also good enough, lot of light is coming in with that huge panoramic sun roof and through the safari windows. There is a light at the top, along with hook and handle on both sides, wood treatment on the door handles too.. At the center there is a adjustable head rest along with an arm rest with cup holders and the good part is the cabin is wide enough and there is no hump at the floor so three people can easily sit at the 2nd row. The center console is massive with AC vents at there, this car got 3 zone climate control but could have got more vents on the B-pillar or at the top. Meanwhile the rear seat is a charging delight, here you got 2, 12-volt charging socket and 2 USB ports, so lots of charging option right there. 

Getting to the front row first and for-most there is a request sensors on all the doors for which you need to press a button to unlock the car, it does not opens the door when you put you hand. Then it got push start stop and everything is full of rubber for the long therm durability of the car and you got exposed screws everywhere to make it look rugged. Now you got three memory options for the driver sear with controls to open windows and to adjust mirrors. BTW there is rubber finishing on the floor area to with very less use of carpets only required mats are placed there. You get a 14 way power adjustable driver seat and the auto hold button is placed in an awkward area not in the proper sight of driver.  Now there is a massive central console with 2-USB charging socket and a 12-volt charging socket along with a wireless charging option too. Infact the dashboard is also designed for keeping stuffs along with another USB socket, so lots of charging option in the car, that's not all below the front center arm rest too there is a chiller for your drinks. So in terms of storage and chargers this car gets 10/10 from my side, but the glove box is on the smaller side, I mean the width is good but the depth is low. 

   

At the top you get controls for sun roof, a sun-glass holder along with lights and buttons to call SOS or road side service. The car gets 3 sun visors because you have a option to fit a jump seat at the center in order to take you dogs, which also bi-functions as a arm rest with cup holders. The gear selector and the Air conditioning controls are stick to the dashboard and it is a 2 zone climate control. And also there is controls for different terrain modes, so you got eco pro, comfort mode and the regular offroad mode which has grass, gravel and snow plus there is sand, mud, rug, rock crawl and all these programs, it also has an program known as weight and you can configure it if you so wish. The steering wheels says DEFENDER on it and is a 4 spoke unit with controls on the left to toggle the infotainment screen and on the right for the adaptive cruse control. The steering is too big as per my liking and on the right stocks you have controls for the wiper and on the left side is for the headlights. The car gets ambient lights too. And also has voice commands. The best feature in the car is the IRVM, as all the seats are up you can't see much so just press of a button it will show you the view from the camera at the shark fin antina. The steering gets electric adjust both for reach and rake. And this is a 10 inch instrument clusture which by default shows 2 dials of speedo and tachometer and at the center it got plenty of information including tire pressure monitor, here you can change the layout to get the maps or other info whatever you like. But this is not the fastest system. This has the new infotainment system it is a 10 inch unit, this is fantastic, infact the resolution from the cameras is also great and it gets the birds eye view which does helps when you are in offroads. This car got a 900 mm of water weighting capacity. There is weight assist with slope assist and you can just brows through various system like media, radio, maps, 4G connectivity and has Eco pro which shows your driving style. 

Now it gets a meridian sound system which has the highest setting of 700 watts Amazing audio system.

Drive Train

As things stand, the Land Rover Defender is now available with three powertrain options in India. These include a 300hp, 2.0-litre, turbo-petrol (P300) as well as engine as the above mentioned, the 400hp, 3.0-litre, turbo-petrol (P400) and 300hp, 3.0-litre, turbo-diesel engine (D300). 

Besides this, Land Rover has also begun accepting bookings for the P400e plug-in hybrid variant which is expected to join the line-up later this year.

Conclusion

Its a great car for offroading duties. If your pocket allows you then go and pick this up. These is a worth paying of a machine. 

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