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TLB

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Umberto, I am sorry you can not get a new defender for the next year or two but at the same time I am really happy we will have you on this forum next few years.
My gues is that once a new defender will hit tbe showrooms discovery 5 will not sell at all. We should see great deals on new and used Disco5. To me a new defender is a real succesor to LR4.
I would call Disco5 a big mistake.
In general I like this new defender but I wish we could have V6 with 18 inch wheels and without automatically going to extra options I do not realy need.
One think I do not like is the front end. Every time I see a picture it reminds me about Kia.
I can not wait for real life road and off road tests.
I tried to price out a new defender . with a 4 cyl. engine I ended up at about $65,000 ( being very conservative). With V6 my price was close to $80,000.
This is crazy. Jeep Wranglet Rubicon unlimited looks like a great deal to me.
 

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I remember my boss back when the NSX first came to the US in the early '90s telling me they had a $5000 buyers premium over sticker. I guess for someone who really has to have the first one on the block, they pay to play.
 

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Who is buying this thing at $30k over MSRP? That is just dumb.

I'm wondering the same thing. Anyone with that kind of money is happy to drive both a new FFRR and a NAS D90.

Even if you drop that money now, you aren't seeing it until this Spring at the earliest. Are these dealerships getting anyone to bite, or are they turning away a bunch of honest buyers hoping someone will?
 

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The last 3 Defender Prototypes that never made it are highlighted in this article (1997, 1999, 2011):

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/reinvented-land-rover-defender-never-was



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yes, i know of many cars that people pay over sticker for but this shouldn't be one of them.

damn straight on a a vehicle where the OE is looking for volume to make it pencil. Sorry, but this is not a halo vehicle like the Ford GT, NSX, or Hell cat. This is a vehicle that JLR hopes will move into one of their top sellers. P1ssing people off who have an interest with an offensive $20k-$30k additional dealer markup (ADM) is counter to that goal.

There are a lot of great dealers out there. Unfortunately, there are some stupid ones too. Not hard to see who's who.
 

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damn straight on a a vehicle where the OE is looking for volume to make it pencil. Sorry, but this is not a halo vehicle like the Ford GT, NSX, or Hell cat. This is a vehicle that JLR hopes will move into one of their top sellers. P1ssing people off who have an interest with an offensive $20k-$30k additional dealer markup (ADM) is counter to that goal.

There are a lot of great dealers out there. Unfortunately, there are some stupid ones too. Not hard to see who's who.

Looked at another way, is this a tacit acknowledgment that these dealers don't believe the new Defender model has legs? They're trying to gouge while they can before sales go over a cliff? I personally don't think that, but dealers like this would have a difficult time convincing me that they don't.
 

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