Ford to build Ineos/Defender

[XJ Junkie]

This is Gerry McGovern. He’s the Design Director at Land Rover at their Gaydon offices & is the guy that will determine what the next Defender will look like & it’s capabilities.





This is Sir Jim Ratcliff. He’s the guy that’ll determine what the Ineos/Defender will be.
He’s the wealthiest man in the UK with about $12b.




My money is on the 2nd guy.

[Mike Nel]

The first guy. Was he responsible for the D5 as well? If yes, then the Defender is doomed before it’s even drawn on paper

[XJ Junkie]

Indeed he was

[Wooky]

Will be following this.
It is going to be interesting to see what they come up with as a production model/s.

[Rabbiddog RIP 7/6/21]

From what I have heard the Defender body has not been in the public eye yet. They have been using the Range Rover, and other variant bodies.

When I did my Injectors the other day, and playing around in the new diagnostics software, you can enable and disable numerous electronic functions, including air suspension, and other some function's I looked at, even on the D3 which JLR SDD blocked.

This means you can go back to solid axle's and diif lock

[Estee]

So one of my inputs to Projekt Grenedier has been: NO AIR SUSPENSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!