据英国媒体报道,路虎将于2016年夏季投产下一代卫士。路虎计划全面更新旗下车型，首款车是发现运动版，紧接着就是用全新车型替换老旧的卫士。路虎全球设计总监麦戈文表示，新车将有全面外观，独特的侧面轮廓。目前新车设计已经定稿，下一代卫士的升级幅度之大超出路虎旗下任何一款车型。该车将采用铝制单体车身，车身上部更多铝制部件，新车在尽可能的保持坚固性的同时重量更轻。至于动力系统，新车将搭载Ingenium四缸汽油和柴油及V6引擎，搭配八速或九速自动变速器，现在还不清楚是否提供手动变速器。

 

Next generation Defender coming 2016, will be the most capable Land Rover ever

British media is reporting the next generation Land Rover Defender will go into production in the summer of 2016.

 

Land Rover's plan to overhaul its lineup has already started with the Discovery Sport and now focus is being shifted towards a replacement for the aging Defender. The company's design director Gerry McGovern has already said it "will have to wash its face" and "will be more desirable to look at" while having a "distinctive silhouette" without looking "overly functional."

 

Now, Autocar is saying the design has been signed off and according to Jaguar Land Rover group marketing director the next-gen Defender will have the biggest "breadth of capability" of any Land Rover so far. It will allegedly make use of an aluminum monocoque with a more substantial aluminum superstructure to make the Defender as stiff as possible while being substantially lighter.

 

Promising to provide "premium durability", the next-gen Defender will be equipped with four-cylinder Ingenium gasoline and diesel engines as well as by a range of V6 motors working with eight- or nine-speed automatic transmissions whereas the availability of a manual gearbox is unknown at this moment.