Apparently, the company has had a change of heart and the new 2015 Defender won't resemble the DC100 concept that did the rounds in the last few years:
"Land Rover has gone back to the drawing board for its next-generation Defender after mixed reviews of its radical DC100 concept. The brand's global PR manager, Dave Roynon, admits some people hated the DC100, launched in 2011, and says the new Defender won't look like it.
"We're doing lots of market research, we're doing lots of studies," Roynon says. "We did DC100 to see what the reception was ... It's a bit of a Marmite [England's answer to Vegemite] car, some people loved it, some people hated it. I loved it as a styling exercise, but is it something that would replace Defender? No."
Roynon says no details for the new Defender have been locked in – except the fact it must retain the current car's go-anywhere, hard-working reputation.
"The capability is almost a given," he says. "It has to be as capable, it has to be as robust, it has to go everywhere the existing Defender goes, it has to be as practical as the existing Defender."
These are the company's plans:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...llion-investment-blitz-double-production.html
It has to be said that the plan must have been leaked before the company's change of tack on the DC100 programme.
Can't say though that I thought there was much wrong with the DC100:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motorin...Land-Rover-Defender-replacement-for-2015.html