You can snag a very nice late-model Wrangler that still has fewer miles than that $30K Landie for far less. Wranglers from the same era, in contrast, run as cheap as $2,000. The least-expensive Defender of yore you can find on right now, for example, still costs nearly $30,000. Or at least they would be, were it not for a little vehicle called… the Jeep Wrangler.Īmerica’s homegrown off-road icon does just about everything the Defender does, and it does it on the cheap. All of which are indeed appealing, and seem like fine reasons to snap up a second vehicle. The chief substantive draws of the old Defender, of course, are its incredible off-road capability, compact proportions and open-air flexibility. Hot Damn, Land Rover Just Gave the Defender a V8 It's still super-capable off-road, as always, but the latest version combines that with heretofor-unknown-for-a-Defender levels of on-road handling and performance. Indeed, for the vast majority of people - in particular, those who actually buy new SUVs with $50,000-plus price tags - the new Defender is a far better fit, as we discovered during our first test. Civilization isn’t a bad word it’s the reason for and the goal of mankind’s existence on the planet.
Or the 790 million without clean water at all. Go ask the 2.5 billion people on Earth who lack modern sanitation what they’d think of a little more civilization. The all-new Defender has taken its fair share of heat for being, in effect, “too civilized.” But you who likes civilization? Humans. Which, for the record, is about as fast as you’ll go on a highway, considering the brick-like aerodynamics and lack of power. The slow steering that helped place the front end so carefully at 10 miles per hour felt painfully, almost unsafely cumbersome at the speed limit. The open flanks that seemed so inviting in the quiet woods stirred up the air to tinnitus-inducing levels.
The seating position, close enough to the controls, made every shift a long, deliberate process. But once back into the real world of, y’know, roads - paved and dirt alike - it rapidly proved irritating. Off-road, traversing the deep wood trails of upstate New York at low speeds, it was delightful.
Back in 2019, I was lucky enough to drive one of South Carolina-based Himalaya’s Defender by Himalaya models, which represents perhaps the best possible version of an original Defender. For the record, I’m not speaking out of a certain orifice like Ace Ventura here.
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