Sad days but hopefully the new one will look good?
http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/news/end-road-queens-favourite-car-090500508.html
Regards
Ian
Yeah but what they don't mention is that "landrovers" are being still produced all over the world by company's who use to licence
the design off landrover but now build them cheaper and better than we can except they don't pay landrover any royalties. You can even buy them
in the uk only difference is they don't have landrover on the front. There's a white one parks just up the street from me looks quite smart.
Most seem to be series 3 Type chassis with a defender body.
The new one will be just a normal 4x4 without the key bolt togeather construction and will end the military market landrover use it have. Last concept
replacement car I saw looked a joke designed by someone who didn't know a thing about the orginal car.
[Edited on 9/10/13 by Mr Whippy]
Hmmm... having driven a Spanish Santana (probably the best known Defender licensee) I can say with some certainty that whilst it may be a cheaper
alternative, it's no way a 'better' built vehicle. Quite the opposite - you can see where the money saving went!
The other licensee were built in the middle east and south america, so I doubt if any of them were better either - but I could be wrong... I
frequently am!
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Originally posted by RedAvon
Sad days but hopefully the new one will look good?
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Yeah but what they don't mention is that "landrovers" are being still produced all over the world by company's who use to licence the design off landrover but now build them cheaper and better than we can except they don't pay landrover any royalties. You can even buy them in the uk only difference is they don't have landrover on the front. There's a white one parks just up the street from me looks quite smart. Most seem to be series 3 Type chassis with a defender body.
The new one will be just a normal 4x4 without the key bolt togeather construction and will end the military market landrover use it have. Last concept replacement car I saw looked a joke designed by someone who didn't know a thing about the orginal car.
[Edited on 9/10/13 by Mr Whippy]
My business partner bought a New "defender a few years back for a Horrific price.
Over the next few years it proved as a Complete Garbage product ..2!! engine rebuilds on the crap Buick V8 recycled 'engine',
a new transmission, constant repairs to virtually everything else on the thing and there was perpetual doubt as to whether the effing thing would
start.
It was finally sold off for peanuts at 150, 000kms on the odo.
Whatever happens to Rover et al It's Richly deserved... and none too soon.
^^Bare: almost no one over this side of the pond ever bought the V8 versions - nearly all of them here are 2.5l diesels that are crude but work
fine (especially the old 200 & 300 TDi ones)
they were never meant to be a car, so if you bought one to drive to the office and back expecting the luxury of a premium brand car then your and
idiot...
over here they are most commonly found on farms - in muddy fields, towning livestock and herding cattle, etc... - the work a lot of them do is
closer to tractors than cars and thats what they were built for
we've had a 1989 model since the mid 90's and its still going strong (mainly tows big trailers) and my uncles still got one on his farm from
about 1985 thats almost never driven on the road
they do need regular maintenance, but if you look after them they just about go forever....
[Edited on 16/10/2013 by mcerd1]
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Originally posted by mcerd1
^^Bare: almost no one over this side of the pond ever bought the V8 versions - nearly all of them here are 2.5l diesels that are crude but work fine (especially the old 200 & 300 TDi ones)
they were never meant to be a car, so if you bought one to drive to the office and back expecting the luxury of a premium brand car then your and idiot...
[Edited on 16/10/2013 by mcerd1]