When it comes to hardcore off-road vehicles, who comes to mind first?
The Ashkenazi Big G, the American Jeep, or the Japanese Land Patrol?
However, compared to these three models with high appearance rates, many people also overlook a model with strong off-road performance and a deep historical heritage, which is the British brand Land Rover Defender!
The birth time of the first generation of Land Rover Defender can be traced back to 1990, the model at the beginning of the market with strong off-road performance, excellent vehicle quality and other advantages to achieve worldwide sales, and has become a military vehicle in many countries. Subsequently, the Land Rover Defender has become a benchmark model for the Land Rover brand and the off-road industry. With the arrival of the latest 2023 Land Rover Defender, what are the highlights of the new car?
First of all, from the appearance of the vehicle, since the 2023 Land Rover Defender is only a small modification, the design of the whole vehicle has not changed, or the slightly rounded and tough design style adopted by the Land Rover family at the moment, and it is also mixed with a tribute to the original Land Rover Series I in 1948, so when you see the new Land Rover Defender, it is like seeing an English gentleman in a vintage tuxedo coming to you.
In fact, for the hardcore off-road vehicle, the vehicle interior and exterior design and there is nothing to say, we mainly look at the off-road performance brought by the design, such as the three-door five-seat classic design used by the road number guard, this compact design idea, so that the vehicle has a very short wheelbase, coupled with the extremely short front and rear overhang design, so that the vehicle has a 37.5 ° approach angle and 40 ° departure angle, often play off-road people should know that the advantages of these two designs locked in, it can avoid the occurrence of the bottom, bump, bump, Traps and other conditions, so that the vehicle can be flattened in the face of difficult road conditions.
There is no doubt that land rover defenders benefit from excellent body design, making it an all-terrain benchmark in off-road vehicles in many hardcore data.
However, with the development of science and technology, only the basic body design advantages, obviously can not keep up with the pace of the times, so it also needs a lot of electronic intelligent system assistance. No, Land Rover Defender is equipped with the industry's well-known Land Rover family of the second generation of intelligent all-terrain feedback adaptation system, which has including automatic mode, comfortable driving mode, grass/gravel/snow mode, muddy ground/rutted mode, sand mode, rock crawl mode, energy-saving mode up to 9 terrain driving modes, and also added Land Rover's unique transparent chassis and wading mode that detects the depth of wading through radar, truly helping users get out of trouble in the all-terrain environment.
Speaking of this almost forgot a very important thing, that is, the 2023 Land Rover Defender equipped with off-road hardware, we can see that the car is equipped with a full-time four-wheel drive system with a central differential lock function as standard, in addition to the Land Rover Defender 90 version needs to be equipped with an optional rear differential lock, the official optional price is very cheap and very worthy of praise, while other high-end versions are standard rear differential locks. It is worth mentioning that the car is also equipped with air suspension that supports soft and hard and high and low adjustments as standard, which allows the vehicle to be adjusted according to the driving environment of the owner.
Of course, considering the daily use scenarios of many users may be mostly urban roads, so we can see that the 2023 Land Rover Defender is also equipped with as many as 10 intelligent driving assistance functions including parallel assist, lane departure warning, lane keeping assist, intelligent identification of traffic signs, active braking and 360 ° panoramic impact, etc., so that people's impression of very bulky hard-core off-road models can also be easily shuttled in the city road, and even can complete long-distance driving comfortably. At this time, many of the things that the same level of off-road vehicles cannot do.
Finally, in terms of vehicle performance, the 2023 Land Rover Defender offers a total of three different powertrains, including a powertrain of 2.0T+8AT, which can output a maximum horsepower of 300Ps and a peak torque of 400N·m; and a 3.0T L6 turbo + electric supercharging + 48V light hybrid system + 8AT powertrain, which can output a maximum horsepower of 400Ps and a peak torque of 550N·m; and the ultimate version of the 5.0T V8 supercharged + 8AT powertrain. It can output 525 PS maximum horsepower and 625 N·m peak torque!
Hero Car Talk: Obviously, the 2023 Land Rover Defender, which has a very strong off-road performance, its performance in the intelligent configuration of the vehicle makes other hard-core off-road vehicles of the same level unattainable. Finally, let's take a look at the price that everyone is most concerned about, because the overall configuration of the various versions of the Land Rover Defender models is basically the same, so its main difference is the power version, we can see that the starting price of the 2023 Land Rover Defender 90 version that can step on the Wrangler is only 698,000, this price is still very likely for many people to work hard, as for the guide price of more than 1.6 million and the encounter with the big G is not at all the 5.0T V8 ultimate version, It is the version considered by a small number of rich people, so which of these four hardcore off-road vehicles do you prefer?