George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Climate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵 97745214
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Whenever I see one of these, I think about the shifting ‘spirit’ of capitalism as expressed in the fact that a Land Rover used to be a ‘Discovery’ and is now a ‘Defender’ 2163
PhunkyPunk Ⓐ @phunkypunk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026So, to summarise, any c*nt fool enough to buy one of these carbon monoxide farting tin boxes, is someone with money to spare who wouldn't have a problem having some of that spare cash being liberated and donated to a Climate Change mitigation foundation? Got it. 040
Alex G @alexgrigelis.bsky.social · 03/08/20268 years in EV’s and never go back.The sun is filling up my car as I type. 000
Dan Brown @snaphookdan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026What boggles my mind is that if you wanted these for cities (you don't need them), make them with an electric powertrain. Perfect for shorter journeys, no tailpipe emissions. That they have stuck with a V6 and said this is for urban areas is pretty gross. 140
Beth, a Womble @macwomble.bsky.social · 03/08/2026What rattles my cage is their selfish drivers, they always use 2 car parking places. 😡 Do they pay for 2 places? 🤷♀️ Pretentious planks, the lot of them. 000
Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 04/08/2026As a child of the 60s, watching so many drivers now leave their vehicles idling for long periods never fails to grate. Just so they can sit in comfort, usually playing with their mobiles. 000
Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Way past time that introduce size/weight cost penalty on oversized cars and incentivise smaller low emission (EV)s much like they do in Japan with Kei cars/vans/trucks. These vehicles fit much better on the UK's narrow roads and parking spaces too. And obviously build cycle infrastructure. 010
J @jaybut707.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Indian company so not much the English govt can do. Road tax by area of road used (width x length)? 000
Hannibal Lecturer @heyyouguys.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Everyone who wants to drive this beast should be allowed to drive it. up their arse 000
OhNo!NotHimAgain @lettingitslide.bsky.social · 03/08/2026as featured on the BBC news yesterday - even drought stricken farmers are driving these expensive egomonsters . . . 000
Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 03/08/2026People willing to fork out for this should be aware that it’s much, much cheaper to have “I don’t give a f**k about my kids!” tattooed across their forehead. 1282
Julian Mellor @biscuitwood.bsky.social · 03/08/2026A friend genuinely got the name wrong, called it a Land Rover Destroyer 0230
Kenyesi Uume @turdlet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026They need to bring back the old defenders that got like 10 mpg! Those were awesome 000
Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026When you can buy a similar vehicle for half that, I don't think Land Rover has much future. 010
puckozy.bsky.social @puckozy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Funny because Musk has never sold a diesel or petrol car. 100
Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026@georgemonbiot.bsky.social These things used to come with a little sticker that all their emissions had been paid for with offsets. Offsets like that have been BS from Day One. 000
James. @rbmdm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If Land Rover weren't the only British mass market car manufacturer left, it'd be much easier to legislate these out of towns or even existence. 100
Assistantweasil @indeliblesi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026and utterly useless, unlike the old Defender, which still fulfilled the original purpose of being able to carry fodder up a Welsh mountainside in a snowstorm. 0290
mary4future.bsky.social @mary4future.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I am very judgy when I see someone step out of a car like this. 030
Nico Thæccan @nicothaecan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Just thought I'd put this out there again George. 100
Stephen or Steve "EMV" Cobb @scobb.net · 03/08/2026If you parked three of these in a row at my local Sainsbury’s, the people in the middle one would not be able to get out without climbing over the rear seats. 011
Gentil Costa - Gentil’s Garage YouTube @gentil.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My £550 20 year old Focus works perfectly fine. 020
Captain Cabbage @captain-cabbage.bsky.social · 03/08/2026You should have to do a special driving test to drive an SUV, it should be a much stricter test than the standard one. And you should have a to renew your license by taking the test again every other year. That would stop most people from buying Chelsea tractors. 030
roscogo.bsky.social @roscogo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026High end cars at one time embodied refined elegance in their design. Now they visually project extrinsic values and insecure neolibral male ego, which are among the driving forces of the multiple compounding crisis we face. 010
paulfg42.bsky.social @paulfg42.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I can’t get my head round the fact that people have the means and desire to spend 100 grand on a vehicle. 2120
MaxAnglia @maxanglia.bsky.social · 03/08/2026And mostly driven by farmers and those country folk who care so much for the environment, not. 000
Tony M #FBPE #HopeNotHate #Resist 🏴 @turkthrust.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I’ve just discovered a new way to save £103,460 000
okokapi.bsky.social @okokapi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026No lunchbox holder on this one? Where would I put my peanut butter sandwiches? 110
Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I've owned two Discovery's in the past and they were total garbage, spent more time in the garage than on the road. The second one had three gear boxes, totally unreliable, avoid at all costs. EVs never cause me any issues, just totally reliable. 5161
Rob Parsons @robparsons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I think I'll make my own version now, and call it the "Land Rover Defender WHY???" 010
Kamil @needforsleep.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Looks like a tank for people who expect to be ambushed by woke vegan communist guerrillas. 050
Steve (official) @steve.mu.social · 03/08/2026I saw a Range Rover yesterday that looked bigger than the Transit van in front of it. Another issue is that this makes other drivers feel they need bigger cars, as driving surrounded by bigger vehicles can feel very intimidating. 1220
Michael Myers Penguins @tommyds.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Have they made it look ominous on purpose? 590
hollyashtree.bsky.social @hollyashtree.bsky.social · 03/08/2026In Cornwall anyone who actually needs a car like this drives the most beat up, muddy iterations imaginable. The 2nd home owners on the other hand drive in the middle of the road & aggressively refuse to reverse in lanes because they don't want their *off road, specialist farm tanks* to brush a hedge 1923519
Henri Fischer @q19999.bsky.social · 03/08/2026tinted windows, heavy armoring optional or standard? 000
Sam Proctor @samproctor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026They are a massive ‘up yours’ to everyone who isn’t the owner and their immediate family. They are a look at me aren’t I wonderfully rich, enclosed in this vast polluting metal box. 000
aubresky.bsky.social @aubresky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Tall vehicles like this block the vision of children in front of them. They need to be regulated for pedestrians safely. Often children are run over in their own driveway. 010
wolvkal.bsky.social @wolvkal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Love their "will never be used" fake ladders and outdoorsy accessories. Dude all you do with a Defender is to drop your kids to school :):) 010
Sil Perez @sealperez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Never trust someone who buys a car that looks like this: 😠 010
Su Campbell @sucampbell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The two vehicles I’m wary of when out on my bike are white vans and these. The drivers are awful. 020
🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Is it just me but every time I see one of these behemoths the only word that forms in my mind is "w@nker"? Also, how can it be that 95% of the drivers of these things can't park properly, even when the parking space is supersize? 2120
Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Driving cars like this should be as socially taboo as drink driving. Personally, Id be embarrassed to be seen in one 1441
Clive Woodbridge @blandishments.bsky.social · 03/08/2026SUVs a common site in the leisure centre car park around my way. They are massive. 010
Confessio Viaticum @confessorprofessor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Doubtless necessary for struggling Welsh subsidy - sorry, sheep - farmers, who need to pull a horse-box up a muddy hill, and who have a spare £100k+ going. A niche demographic. Especially when the hills are aflame, for some mysterious reason. 090
Dexter Crisp @dextercrisp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Even the front end looks like an angry bulldog. 000
Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026When my children were school age many young mums would insist they needed one of these monstrous vehicles because ‘… it was safer for the children…’ - they hadn’t made the connection that bad/dangerous drivers are lethal and no vehicle can save you if you meet one on the roads 010
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Land Rover also does a Discovery Metropolitan edition. The name suggests it's for use in cities. Because you never know how high the kerb / cyclist / pedestrian you need to mount might be. And because there must be no limit to the pointless environmental harm you inflict. 1637081
Pizza belongs on pineapple @essin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Is it time to introduce the mandatory ”sharpened-spear-tip-mounted-in-steering-wheel” mod in these behemoths? 030
Paul Bivand @paulbivand.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Car tax and parking fines, in future road pricing, to be based on road damage, fourth power of weight. Total tax maybe £100,000 per annum. 0181
John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ 🦋 @wjpme.bsky.social · 03/08/2026@thewaroncars.bsky.social Lots you guys would agree with here. 020
James Belcher @jamesbelcher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026SUVs have drawn blowback over time in the form of tire deflators. 000
Lee Thumwood @lt14gjc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026They're not compatible with city life! If I was Mayor I'd tax tf out of anyone driving one ( @london.gov.uk ) & they're not compatible with country life. Anyone that needs an actual decent 4x4 for work purposes would likely get a Hilux or a D-Max etc. 070
©️garethaethwy 2024 @garethaethwy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026100 grand for a penis extension? Whilst kids live in poverty? Fuck off. #TaxTheRich 1100
Davey @detroitgoose.com · 03/08/2026Care about the planet but still want a car to compensate for all the ways you lack? Try the EV Hummer 010
janelangford.bsky.social @janelangford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Many people just seem to have a total mental disconnect between the larger world with its problems and their own little lives. 000
haveaniceface.bsky.social @haveaniceface.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Here's one I found with this badge undoubtedly added by the owner. The "back the blue" with a heart shape is new to me, but people have been bending the knee to the kid-killers for years. The look on my face was supposed to be confusion and disgust. 000
ruders77.bsky.social @ruders77.bsky.social · 03/08/2026There's one near us, suburban London, that we see at school drop off near us. Then when I go for my daily walk, I see the same car parked at a house no more than a mile from above school.... Nearly 3 tonnes, doing exactly what it was designed for and doing none of what the advertising shows. 020
Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I know people have them to look rich, but IME these are driven by those who can only just afford the payments. They're more an indicator of pending bankruptcy should the economic winds change, than of wealth. Those who can really afford them are more bothered about the VFM of their 15-year-old Volvo 070
Karlos @ksweeney.bsky.social · 03/08/2026One man, his production crew and decades of BBC sponsored right wing, macho petrol-head guffawing, bear a great deal of the responsibility for normalizing this stupidity... 020
Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 03/08/2026I also note the built-in bullbar styling. Bull bars were effectively banned because the small points of contact made them lethal. Here we manage to combine the tall front, perfect for knocking people under the car, with prominences, perfect for damaging bodies on the way down. 090
Ian Spencer 🐧 @ian.spennys.world · 03/08/202620mpg manufacturer claim, somewhat less when driven around town I guess, or driven like a knobhead in the overtaking lane of a motorway which appears compulory. 060
SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Apart from the environmental impact and the danger to children and other pedestrians, there's also the damage to roads, bridges etc, and the fact that they don't fit into parking spaces. They're just a status symbol. 250
Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Guildford. Early 2000s. Parent in just about the largest SUV available. 7-seater Mercedes. Picking up 1 small child from school in narrow street. Suggested to other parents that a statement being made here is that in 'protecting' their own child, they don't care if they reverse over your children. 040
Muddy Matt @muddymoles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ultimately, cycle brands of all descriptions need to do the same at an industry level - market and sell aspiration and emotion, not features... 000
Muddy Matt @muddymoles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Cars are attractive to so many people as short hand for telling the world about yourself. For many, Land Rovers signal wealth, but there are cute brands, sporty brands, practical brands, 'in the know brands'. Manufacturers spend a lot of money not to be arsehole brands... doesn't always work! 120
sbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social · 03/08/2026JLR thread of psychopaths and death 💀 😬 bsky.app/profile/sbar...sbarlster@sbarlster.bsky.socialGood news for cyclists, pedestrians and all vulnerable travellers. If it stayed closed for about 5 years it would really help. #doingtheirbit for road violence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJaguar Land Rover staff to stay at home after cyber attackThe company continues the complex work of restoring its systems after the cyber attack at the weekend. 010
AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026🤨Larry & Paul@larryandpaul.bsky.social#BrokenNews: Big Cars = Big C**ks 162
nqr9000.bsky.social @nqr9000.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My feeling is that cars are currently following the same path as the dinosaurs : getting bigger and bigger through competition with each others, then disappear. 020
notidefix.bsky.social @notidefix.bsky.social · 03/08/2026one of the worst designed AND built cars out there frequent timing chain failure engine replacements are common frequent sensor failure . . . 160
Doug HS 😶🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I think we can all agree, people who buy and drive these vehicles are generally out of touch, love making a statement, drive and park without consideration for others. 040
Greggery Peccary @greggarypeccary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My mate has always called these 'Tory Wanker Wagons'. 1240
Dan Wellman @danwellman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Never politely give way (unless absolutely and unquestionably their right of way), never wave thanks if they give way when not your absolute right of way. Never flash them out of a junction. Never smile at them, never nod at them. Treat them the way their vehicle choice treats others 👍 000
GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Been arguing for years that the solution for #autobesity is to regulate domestic car mass & tyre width by design. 1,250kg and 165 is plenty. Meantime add both to emissions for a new VED formula & also bigger purchase tax. 010
bureaucracysucks.bsky.social @bureaucracysucks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Full Musk? Isn't he the one who started the real evolution of EVs and is by far the biggest seller of cars that massively cuts cO2 emissions from personal transport? 010
spooky24.bsky.social @spooky24.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Someone please invent Mounjaro for urban vehicles. 110
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