New Land Rover Defender Sport: electrical Freelander successor has the BMW iX3 in its crosshairs

Land Rover is aware of its clients love customising their vehicles, so contrasting roof colors, decal packs, wheelarch extensions and off-road gear reminiscent of chunky roof racks will all be a part of the providing. 

What platform will underpin the brand new child Defender?

The child Defender will differ from its massive brother largely by way of proportions, which come courtesy of a brand new EMA platform. In contrast to the full-sized mannequin, which runs combustion engines lengthwise below the bonnet, the brand new electrical structure is packaged extra effectively. That is higher for cabin area, however means having an extended entrance overhang. 

The wheelbase can be lengthy in context to the automotive’s general size, however just like the Defender 90 and 110, it has a really brief rear overhang. The automotive’s windscreen is upright, and whereas the rear glass within the tailgate isn’t fairly vertical, there are some aero gadgets on the aspect that can make it seem so. The tailgate will probably be side-opening, although, and whereas there’s no spare wheel connected on the prototype we spied, there’s a superb likelihood we’ll see one on the manufacturing automotive. 

Inside, anticipate a extra digitised tackle the comparatively easy and hard-wearing full-sized Defender. Shows will develop in dimension, they usually’ll introduce a brand new consumer interface that can even be discovered on JLR’s future fashions. There’ll solely be two rows of seating, with no seven-seat choice. Nevertheless a sixth leap seat between the driving force and front-seat passenger may very well be built-in.