Compare and contrast

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
10/08/2020 at 15:58 • Filed to: Merc EQC, Land Rover Defender

Here we can just about see (thanks to my phone’s camera giving up on focussing) two four wheel drive vehicles.

They’re not the same.

At the back we see one of the last (2016) lwb LR Defenders, tarted up with LED tail lights, alloys and those things that stick out uselessly under the doors. It’s got a 2.2 Ford engine and emits lots of CO2 by diesel standards in return for barely discernible acceleration and lots of noise

In front of it we see a Merc EQC . No engine because EV, no local CO2. Easily discernible acceleration. Not so much noise.

So, let’s compare and contrast.

Compare:

Both 4wd. Both about as far off road as they’ll ever be.

Contrast:

One with an engine and lots of going up and down and round and round bits. Lots of gears (six speed dual range so 12 forward). Three pedals. M ainly rwd

One with two motors with one turning around bit each. One gear per motor. Two pedals. Mainly fwd.

One designed originally in the 1940s, one designed seventy odd years later.

One a 4wd icon, one not so much.

So, which would you choose?

DISCUSSION (9)

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Cé hé sin
10/08/2020 at 16:29

If you’re buying a Land Rover to go fast, you’re doing it wrong.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Cé hé sin
10/08/2020 at 16:42

One a 4wd icon, one not so much.

I know, t hat Land Rover can’t hold a candle to the Merc.

Jb boin > Cé hé sin
10/08/2020 at 16:47

Definitely the EQC.. . and a camera for you :)

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Cé hé sin
10/08/2020 at 17:14

One is appreciating, the other depreciating.

If they're giving them away I ‘ll have the dinosaur.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Cé hé sin
10/08/2020 at 18:01

I’d take the Defender any day of the week because one is hubris and the other is irony in that setting. Sure, the LR is crazy overkill for a road that wouldn’t give anything short of a lowered track build trouble but the Merc doesn’t really do anything great because of compromise.

As a CUV is to the suburban shopping center the Defender is to a well maintained dirt road.

Edgyhal94 > Cé hé sin
10/08/2020 at 18:23

Defender is mainly RWD? Nope, like all land rovers, bar like one series 2 variant, AWD with equal split dependant on grip. Newer ones have biases, but the Defender is AWD with a roughly 50/50 split.

Cé hé sin > Edgyhal94
10/08/2020 at 19:10

Now that I think of it, that’s now true. The old ones were normal ly driven in rwd because they didn’t have a middle differential until they inherited the R ange Rover setup.

Edgyhal94 > Cé hé sin
10/08/2020 at 19:14

Erm, the original was permanently AWD too, the only non AWD land rovers are the FWD (ewww) ones and the I think series 3 when they offered it with a high 2, high 4, low 4 transfer box but no one liked them...

Cé hé sin > Edgyhal94
10/10/2020 at 16:23

The Series 1 had full time 4wd with a freewheel for a few years but then switched to part time 4wd until the early 1980s.