Gadgetory

what's ironic that Land Rovers defender isn't sold in the US these days because it doesn't meet us crash standards kind of strange for a vehicle that's always been so tough and rugged it's like a little vault on wheels they're ready to bring it back this is one of the DC 100 concepts the idea here is to bring this forward in two different ways one's kind of sporty Cabriolet like the other one more traditional defender like this among the high-tech features I'm looking at one right here supposedly self-cleaning paint I want to see that work after you go through a big old muddy gully full of rocks right now technologies in the front of the car that look forward are interesting they have two things once called terrain I get it terrain it's a scanning technology that builds a 3d virtual map of what the terrain is in front of you and the car can say you know what you're coming up on a lump or a gully that I can't deal with why don't you go this way or that way and there's one called Wade a2 technology that will figure out how deep the water is you think you're about to forward without caulking the car and tell you if you can actually do that they say the car can get through 750 millimeters of depth that's what that's about six and a half long cigarettes whatever that comes out to what is that about a yard here's one right out of double-oh-seven there's apparently a button inside the car they envisioned as extending the spikes on the tires I mean they're not spikes to kill people but just to get some grip inside all kinds of interesting technology check out this pop-up display we've seen this in cars even in production right now but if this goes into production this would actually snap out it's like a tablet you carry with you to do navigation on foot to continue your journey after you run into something you can't drive over anymore 8-speed automatic transmission right here part of an efficiency message I don't want to put any big old horsey v-8 3mv sixes in these cars anymore they're talking about 2-liter hybrid motors or even plug-in hybrids and the drive line on this vehicle would physically disconnect when you're not using all-wheel drive to further cut losses no place to put a key on this car that I see and even when to production there wouldn't be because they an rfid adventure key which would obviously be a lot better to have in your pocket when you're out in the mud and the wet then one of those actual physical electronic keys now this is a vision for maybe 2015 it's not gonna be in your Land Rover showroom anytime soon but it does bring back the defender brand which they love to have on the showroom floor in the US as well as around the world