With the year 2013 approaching nearer and nearer, The Land Rover
Defender 4 is setting up its standards, by introducing the choice of
upgrades one would love to have, which includes, 5 new body colour
schemes, the interior features an Extended Leather Pack inspired by the
HSE Luxury Limited Edition, and finally Black Design packs which are now
available with 19 inches or 20 inches fully black painted wheels, which
also includes a host of black trim finishers and glasoo black grille
and fender vents.
The infotainment system has also been upgraded, which
now gets the latest generation DAB radio and a new digital TV tuner,
while with all this the navigation system too received its part of this
upgradation by premium features such as Off-Road guidance and 4x4i.
The Drivetrain of this Defender goes like this, it has an 211PS
3.0-litre LR-TDV6 entry level diesel engine, and an outstanding 256PS
3.0-litre LR-SDV6 engine, with the ZF 8, 70 HP 8-speed automatic
transmission, which now produces CO2 emissions of just 230g/km and
224g/km respectively, whilst the 375PS 5.0-litre LR-V8 naturally
aspirated petrol engine is powered with the ultra- refined ZF 6HP28
6-speed automatic transmission.
Quoting John Edwards, Land Rover’s Global Brand Director, he says
“The Discovery 4 continues to win awards for its unrivalled versatility
and breadth of capability, accommodating up to seven passengers in
comfort whatever the terrain. For 2013, the breadth of choice gets
better, with equipment upgrades and our new Black Design Packs enhancing
the key design attributes that our customers identify with today.
As
the ultimate all-purpose vehicle, the Discovery 4 is now more compelling
than ever before”.Now that we are over with the drivetrain figures, lets take a close
look at the upgrades The Land Rover Defender 4 that offers, following
are the features that it offers:
1. Extended Leather Pack.
2. Black Design Packs, which complements the striking look of the Discovery 4, which are available with either 19inch 7-Split Spoke or 20inch 5-Spoke all-black painted wheels.
3. The optional Black Design Pack includes features such as, Gloss Black Grille and Fender Vents, gloss black door handles & mirror caps, gloss black Land Rover & Discovery 4 badging, satin black extended roof rails.
2. Black Design Packs, which complements the striking look of the Discovery 4, which are available with either 19inch 7-Split Spoke or 20inch 5-Spoke all-black painted wheels.
3. The optional Black Design Pack includes features such as, Gloss Black Grille and Fender Vents, gloss black door handles & mirror caps, gloss black Land Rover & Discovery 4 badging, satin black extended roof rails.
Starting of with the Extended Leather Pack, this pack has been
included as per the Customers request for more luxury inside the car,
which now boasts of Windsor leather Seats, with twin-stitch detailing to
the top of the facia and doors and also around the instrument binnacle.
The Technology pack includes Premium Navigation, which incorporates
4x4i off-road navigation, as well as ‘Say What You See’ voice activation
and Parking Aids.
The HSE Luxury pack includes standard Airbags, Xenon Adaptive Front Headlamps including Cornering lamps, Harman Kardon LOGIC 7 17-speaker 825W audio system, Windsor leather seats, full-length roof rails in satin black, electric steering column adjustment for height and reach and an electric tilt/slide sunroof and the front centre console holds a cooler box.
The HSE Luxury pack includes standard Airbags, Xenon Adaptive Front Headlamps including Cornering lamps, Harman Kardon LOGIC 7 17-speaker 825W audio system, Windsor leather seats, full-length roof rails in satin black, electric steering column adjustment for height and reach and an electric tilt/slide sunroof and the front centre console holds a cooler box.
The Vision Assist Pack has Xenon Adaptive Front Headlamps including
Cornering Lamps, Automatic Headlamps with High Beam Assist and the
Surround Camera System including Approach Lamps, Tow Assist and Tow
Hitch Assist.
The colour schemes for the Exterior and Interior colour options
include, 5 new colours, which are: Havana, Barolo Black, Barossa,
Mariana Black and Causeway Grey.
Inside the car you have a choice of two new interior colours and two new trim finishers, there are Aracabia seats with Nutmeg Stitching and Ivory seats with Ivory stitching. Cosmic Grey interior finishers are also introduced as a new option.
The 2013 model Discovery 4 will have a definite Navigation system,
which would be a premium one, over the Discovery 3 model which use to
offer a choice of Base or Premium Navigation system.
So this new model will have features like, TMC (Traffic Message
Channel), 4x4i (displays vehicle status for example, wheel articulation
graphics), Voice and Off-Road guidance, a ‘My POI(Points Of Interest)’
category and POIs can now be uploaded from USB stick in ‘GPX’ format. A
new function called Avoid Points can be noticed, the User Interface has
been streamlined in this model, which eases of the functions.
Other
feature which one avail is the Map Auto Zoom Function where when needed,
automatically zooms in on intersections or junctions as they are
approached. Other improvements to the navigation system are the
inclusion of the Arabic language for user input and display and the
addition of Russian to the Voice Control feature (including Say What You
See).
Infotainement has been substantially improved in the new model, with
the latest MOST Gen 2.1. which has been enhanced to the latest DAB+ and
DMB-A broadcast formats and a new digital TV tuner has been introduced
across all model, which are now capable of receiving MPEG 4 digital
streams.
The entry level model features, an 8-speaker audio system, with
Bluetooth, and USB/iPod connectivity. The high level model has Harman
Kardon System has 11-speakers and an output of 380W, while a class apart
premium level model has an option of Harman Kardon LOGIC 7 system has 17 speakers which delivers 825W.
The 2013 Land Rover Discovery 4 / LR4 has a starting price of
$49,950, which includes an $850 of destination and delivery charges.
We think that this car when launched will again be center of
attraction, because the features it offers is completely extensive and
one would actually look forward for such cars, lets hope that Land Rover
comes out with such more cars in near future.
