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Do you prefer the new LR Defender or old DC100 concept?

Did Land Rover secretly ‘leak’ the new Defender eight years ago?

Published: 11 Sep 2019

The new Land Rover Defender looks pretty tremendous. So, Land Rover has pulled off the impossible – replacing the iconic Defender with a car that doesn’t fill the internet cauldron with boiling bile and a dash of vitriol.

Weirdly, in 2011 Land Rover revealed a concept car showcasing what, potentially, just maybe, a possible Defender-like reincarnation could look like. Perhaps. It was called the DC100, and the die-hards were not happy. Too smooth, too trendy, too urban, they cried. “Do not”, they protested, “make anything that looks like that ever again.”

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Anyway, here we are in the autumn of 2019 and we can gaze upon the new Defender and eight-year-old DC100 concept side-by-side. Tell us, which did it better? And are there any details you wish Land Rover had included on the new Defender?

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