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The waitlist was long even before the chip crisis.
If you re in the market for a new Land Rover Defender, be prepared to wait. Last summer, we reported that the UK automaker was experiencing difficulty building a sufficient supply of Defenders due to the pandemic. You can t build vehicles when factories are shut down, as was the case with Jaguar Land Rover s facility in Slovakia, home of the Defender.
Fast forward to today, and Defender demand remains strong with JLR s order bank reaching nearly 100,000 vehicles, though this figure includes plug-in hybrid variants of its other models, such as the Range Rover. Blame the semiconductor chip crisis, itself a pandemic aftereffect. Automotive News confirmed this figure following a recent presentation given by JLR chief financial officer Adrian Mardell to investors where its latest quarterly earnings were announced.