New Land Rover Defender 90 Hardtop 12 month review. Is it a true farmer's car?

the base Defender it does not have air suspension on it an air suspension would have a normal ride height and then an off-road ride height because this is steel coil sprung standard as you get in it's basically an off-road height all the time hence it just looks chunkier now another thing around the front a negative Point these lights these lights were premium LED headlights with signature DRL 350 pounds they are rubbish like this is the worst modern car for headlights and driving at night that I know you can barely tell the

difference between dip and Main beam inexplicable to me because modern headlights some of the LED lights out today are just amazing new Range Rover has amazing LED lights this one terrible lights what else is there at the front um I hate this Checker plate because it's just plastic I'm not it's all do you stand on it what you meant to do on it I'm really not sure what that's all about underneath I did put some protection on it you go I might just grab the camera um if you go right underneath you can see I have this metal plate here bass

you can get in here and two has that flipping bulkhead now this is a legal requirement and if I owned it it would be out in an instant it's it's quite easy to remove there is companies that remove it and they can actually put rear seats in here if you want as well but it just really limits you what you can get in the back of here and I have often found myself the other annoyance on this is actually the this tailgate you can't lock it in position so if you put someone in the back I've had instances where this is then

here like this then it's quite hard to access and then like here everything gets trapped and then this yeah that's got a stone there you forever trying to get this to lock because there's yeah there's you know where that's still yeah now that won't that won't lock in position because there's muck around here oh it's just it's just badly thought out so that really annoys this blessed thing on a more positive note is the electric tow bar which I'm going to press a button here and then when I've got a trailer on I can actually press this

light and then test all the trailer lights as well so I really like that it's very useful to have but again other mistakes I can't get over the soft Furnishings in here that is the standard sort of armrest that is on a normal sort of Civilian Defender the dogs are going to love that chew on and things it's just not protective I would expect it to have a sort of slab side or something that's to protect all this space in here but it hasn't got it another option I went for was a bright a rear scuff plate I just felt that I

so you can either choose to have a rear view mirror and look through this sort of periscope or a camera there looking behind you what I found with this camera is it actually hides a car it can't see a car so a car can come behind you or something here that camera doesn't see it from there on I'm invisible and that seems a bit weird because that's what a rear mirror I would expect to tell me there's someone standing here or there's a car parked here and you won't see it on there but you do see it with the mirror and I tend to use the mirror at