Just read in this months "Landrover Owners International" that the Defender is going to be built for some years to come. They are only turning out 25,000 a year but still making a profit. They are going to improve profit more buy moving the build to overseas. The Defender is still mainly hand built so its pretty man hours intensive unlike the disco which is made with robots. Apperently the development of the replacement Defender has been shelved for another couple of years. This means we arnt going to see any sign of a new one till the back end of this decade. More over its thought that even with a new defender on the production line, the current defender is still going to be made over seas concurently.
The bad news is there are no plans for a US spec defender (current style) to be built before the end of production.. The good news (for some people) is that it will be getting a new engine before end of production.
Grab a copy of this months LRO to read the article I got this info from. If you cant get hold of one then ask me and I'll scan it when I'm home in a week or two.
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