It’s not elegant, but at least there is actually room for adults back there.įrom the driver’s seat, the extended Defender feels like an armoured personnel carrier. Matt Bubbers/The Globe and MailĬlimbing into the third row of the 130 is a bit of an ordeal, requiring a lunge upward, then a tight crouch under the roof and a spin-plop into the seat.
The additional square-footage allows for a cavernous cargo hold and seating for up to eight, where the shorter 110 offers up to seven chairs and a child-only third row.įrom the driver’s seat, driving the extended Defender feels like being at the wheel of an armoured personnel carrier.
At 5.36 metres long, including the spare wheel fixed to the trunk, it’s 340 millimetres longer than the Defender 110. Realistically, the 130′s main selling point, however, is its extra length. The Defender’s height gives it real off-road chops: up to 290 millimetres of ground clearance, the ability to navigate knee-deep water and approach slopes of 37.5 degrees without scraping the front bumper. When we do eventually find a suitable parking venue, the Land Rover is so long, its nose sticks out of its parking spot.Īll tall SUVs and pickups suffer from an inability to infiltrate certain underground garages and tight parking spaces, but it seems like more of a problem on an SUV promising go-anywhere, do-anything ability.Īt 1.97 metres tall – about the height of Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson – (or 1.79 with the suspension lowered) – the largest Land Rover SUV is taller than a Cadillac Escalade, the same height as a Mercedes-AMG G63, but slightly shorter than the Bronco Raptor or Dodge Ram TRX. We venture into yet another parking garage only to be turned away again by another dangling tube.
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