Land Rover Lake Bluff

Filed under: Concept Cars, Frankfurt Motor Show, Convertible, SUV, Land Rover, Off-Road

With the long-serving Defender not... well, long for this world, Land Rover is gearing up for its eventual replacement - targeted to launch in 2015 - and we just got our first glimpse of it on the show floor here in Frankfurt. Or glimpses, we should say, as JLR surprised us with the debut not only of the concept we were expecting, but a pair of them.

In one corner, the white-roofed silver DC100 three-door wagon we'd been shown (at least, in part) a couple of weeks ago. In the other, the DC100 Sport, an open-air version decked out in yellow-orange. Both preview the next generation of the iconic, go-anywhere truck of choice for expeditionary teams worldwide, and pack such innovations as an off-road terrain scanning device to detect potential obstacles and - get this - a sonar depth-sounder for fording through rivers. Plus, you know, a whole lot more style than the model it envisions succeeding.

Check 'em out in our pair of high-resolution galleries live from the show floor, follow the jump for the brief press release, and stay tuned for more info in our ongoing coverage of the Frankfurt Motor Show.

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Land Rover Defender successor visualized in pair of DC100 concept trucks originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Frankfurt Motor Show, SUV, Land Rover, Off-Road

Yesterday, Land Rover released the first image and details (however few) of the new DC100 concept it's bringing to Frankfurt, and it carries with it the promise of the next-generation Defender - an off-roader so accomplished and so ubiquitous that calling it the Sir Edmund Hillary (or Tenzing Norgay) of automobiles wouldn't even be doing it justice.

Now, LR has dropped a second shot of the DC100, showing us the front end and what she'll look like traversing the old rocky road. But that's not all we've got to go with. Because nature abhors a vacuum, more speculative renderings were bound to pop up, and our friends over at Kilometer magazine have stepped up to fill the void.

The Defender, you see, has long come in different bodystyles, of which the three-door hardtop form taken up by the DC100 is only one. So the KM guys have stretched out the wheelbase, added a couple of doors, even chopped the roof short to leave an open short-bed. Follow the link to check it out, and scope out the second image in the gallery for more.

Land Rover DC100 gets rendered out originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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