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I'm going to be the Defender guy here and say I have always never wanted to own a frog-looking truck with body parts made of different random colors.
I think this thing looks like a bad early 80's Gelandewagon got partially crushed and was repaired with a Gen 1 VW rabbit body parts.
This Grenadier love is treasonous on here. Where is your loyalty, everyone?
@nashvegas. As heavy D says"I got nothing but love" for the defender. It is staying in the family when the Grenadier arrives. You are correct that it looks like a Gen 1 Gwagon but considering Magna helped designed it, they didn't stray too far off the drawing board.
Maybe so. But 60% of folks are wrong 90% of the time.
Al snorkels are raised air intakes but not all raised air intakes are snorkels.
In Australia, deep crossings in many places are the norm and most rigs are equipped with a snorkel. Sealed. It's pretty much standard kit.
It's not that you might want to wade deeper but a snorkel is a good safety buffer when you're close to or are at the maximum. Same is true for the Defender. An errant hole, a bow wave that you don't time just right. Lots of things like that will result in a bad day when having a snorkel would have been needed.
Here's my take as a generic 4WD club member in Australia ... most other 4WD's in the club have a snorkel, though very few vehicles outside of a Ranger or Jeep have even close to the wading depth of a 2020 Defender which is largely governed by the location of diff breathers. We frequently cross creeks in convoy and rarely are they over the rims, however there have been a few times after rain events that a convoy has turned back because it's deemed unsafe for all vehicles to cross. If you can't walk it - don't drive it is the norm, and in the case of the Defender ... if the creek is flowing fast against the side of the intake then I would avoid the crossing in the event you drop into a hole, especially in a diesel. If there is minimal flow or the intake is downstream, no problem, but I have been forced to turn back before and therefore I am still looking for a fully-sealed snorkel option for my 110 that doesn't require cutting the hood.
