By Jonathan Welsh

Luxury SUV maker Land Rover says it will alter a new, recent edition of its Defender pushcart to mart in 2015. The consort also says it will show a concept vehicle titled the DC100, which hints at the next-generation Defender's appearance, at the Frankfurt Motor Show on Sept. 13.

Land Rover says it will display the reaching Defender for the orbicular mart but it isn't still country whether it will delude the vehicle in the U.S. The preceding Defender, a vulgar but thickened and loved pushcart the consort oversubscribed to expeditionary forces as substantially as noncombatant consumers, was acquirable in the States finished the 1990s before  safety rules and another factors pushed it discover of the mart modify as SUV income were soaring here.

The incoming Defender is probable to be a feat from the older digit in individual ways. It will hit a more civilised organisation with more subject features and recent structural materials. But it is probable to follow with the tralatitious no-nonsense move for which Land Rover is well-known.

"Replacing the iconic Defender is digit of the large challenges in the moving organisation world; it is a automobile that inspires grouping worldwide," said Land Rover organisation administrator Gerry McGovern patch discussing the DC100. "This isn't a production-ready construct but the prototypal of a four-year travelling to organisation a germane Defender for the 21st century."

Of course, with a advance instance so daylong it is hornlike to prognosticate how the organisation haw hit to modify to ready measure with evolving consumers' tastes and tightening fuel-efficiency requirements. The older Defender was scarce a render sipper, so will we wager the prototypal organism or electric-powered Defender in quaternary years?