Jaguar Land Rover Malaysia has confirmed the New Land Rover Defender will be launching soon. It has announced October 21, 2021 as the official launch date. You can also catch the live stream of the digital launch on Land Rover Malaysia’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/landrovermalaysia, at 11am.
Redesigned for Dual Purpose
The new Land Rover Defender is completely redesigned and reengineered, and remains the toughest and the ultimate 4×4 vehicle for overland adventures. It offers a combination toughness and off-road ability with the delivery of practical and functional design for everyday city driving.
Named the 2021 World Car Design of the Year, the new Defender has a distinctive silhouette that makes it instantly recognisable, with minimal front and rear overhangs providing class-leading ground clearance, breakover, approach and departure angles.
Land Rover’s designers re-envisioned the familiar Defender trademarks, giving the 4×4 a purposeful upright stance and Alpine light windows in the roof, while retaining the side-hinged rear tailgate and externally mounted spare wheel that makes the original so identifiable.
Modern Features
Among the new great features of the Defender are:
- 3D Surround Camera: coupled with new 3D exterior perspectives alongside a 360° overhead view to make manoeuvring easier while off-road views, including the innovative ClearSight Ground View, provides the driver with more confidence when scaling various terrain. This feature displays a camera view of the front underside of the vehicle on the large central Touchscreen – which under normal circumstances, would not be visible to the driver.
- Adaptive Dynamics with Electronic Air Suspension: allows the driver to fine-tune the driving characteristics. The system’s adaptive dampers monitor body movements up to 500 times per second and responds almost instantaneously to optimise control and comfort in ensuring a composed flat ride.
- Wading depth of 900mm: the first Land Rover to feature a Wade programme within the Terrain Response menu. The Wade programme in Terrain Response raises the vehicle using Electronic Air Suspension, while Wade Sensing uses ultrasonic sensors in the door mirrors to alert the driver visually and audibly if water approaches the vehicle’s maximum wading depth.
- Pivi Pro: the state-of-the-art new infotainment system that is supported by British-based Meridian Sound System.
Practical and Tough
The Defender’s new purpose-engineered architecture is based on a lightweight aluminium monocoque construction of the new D7x architecture to create the stiffest body structure that the brand has ever produced – three times stiffer than the best body-on-frame designs in the market.
The new Defender makes the perfect companion for overland adventures with a permanent all-wheel drive, a twin-speed automatic gearbox, a maximum towing capability of 3,500kg and a maximum static roof load of 300kg.
There are two powertrain options available for the Defender 110 in Malaysia – 2.0L 300PS (Metric Horsepower) and 3.0L 400PS (Metric Horsepower) MHEV which is a mild hybrid version.
All interested parties can visit Jaguar Land Rover showrooms nationwide to place their booking. For more information, head over to www.landrover.com.my.
All Land Rover vehicles come with the Land Rover Care programme, which includes a five-year warranty, five years of free service and three years of roadside assistance.