Right with you but fast-forward 17 years. Looking at how much stuff our daughters have stockpiled to take to college, there is no way each trip fits in our 110. Thankfully we still have the LR4 and it's big cargo area.

 

Couldn't believe my 6' snowboard bag wouldn't fit when I saw and measured the 110. Really put me off of it. This is why I just replaced my '17 Disco5 with a '22. Sure, it doesn't have the cache or whatever of the Defender, but it exists and does the job just fine.

 

Totally agree. We need to replace our LR4 and I was just thinking a D5 would be perfect. Has more space than our 110, and had some nice upgrades (infotainment, engine, front design, more AC vents, etc.) from the first D5. Now if they can just center that rear license plate holder.

 

The 130 is ugly though. Tool long. The 110 is perfect looking in size and stature, it's just that JLR was asleep when they designed the cargo area. I swear the designers and engineers at JLR have to be people who have never owned a Land Rover until recently and have no knowledge or true spirit of the Land Rover heritage that many of us here share. I guess they thought the only thing going in the back of them were going to be groceries.

I still believe the only reason they are making the 130 is to shuttle around the Royal Family and their luggage. Prince William was like "hey Land Rover, I can't fit my H&H gun case in the back of my 110!"

 

But if it doesn’t have the cache of the Defender, it wouldn’t hold as much.




Oh… you meant cachet.

 

Not by any means. Tahoe/Escalade/Expedition/Navigator and the new Wagoneer are all significantly larger. Never mind the Suburban. There is absolutely a market for something larger in the cargo area than the 110. I am curious if JLR keeps the 3rd row as-is or uses the extra room to make it more accommodating to passengers. I would suspect the former but it would be interesting to see an arrangement like the new Acura MDX that gives you the option of second row captain's chairs that give walk thru access to the 3rd row. That might be quite useful to families. Give up one seat to gain much better access to the back row.

 

(uttering mild imprecation)

 

I wish they'd take that god blessed square off the windows in the back and do something w/ those safari windows to allow them to be flipped out or something

 

All this fuss for 3 1/2 extra inches. Anybody else find it hard to look at that overhang?









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I just can't get past that huge overhang. Throws the proportions totally out of whack in my opinion. I think the same thing about the Grand Cherokee L vs the standard. The defender just has perfect dimensions right now with the 110 especially.