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.