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over a year ago
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"Who else is fed up of listening about the land rover defender its a car for f**ks sake.  "
What like you're so fed up hearing about them you thought you'd give them an extra mention on here...
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I think it a lot more than that but I'm sure you don't want to hear about how they helped revitalise engineering and the economy after the war. How they were the car 75% of the population of Africa first saw.
I won't start about they brought mobility to the armed forces and how they were a small affordable tractor for the farming community.
Obviously the fact that they are used by emergency services and voluntary groups use them to rescue people from places inaccessible to other vehicles won't intrest you.
Over 2 million have been made over a 67 year period. Today the last one, a green soft top 90 rolled off the production line.
They are totally at home up to their axles in mud or parked outside Buckingham Palace. No other vehicle has been so versatile, few have the following that Land Rover has.
Environmentally speaking they can be constantly fixed or improved. If it was just a car it would be scrapped not repaired, restored and rejuvenated...
I have had a Land Roverso in my life since 1980. My current one I have 15 years and I have no intention of ever selling it...
In fact I'm going to be buried in it, because it's never been in a mud hole it couldn't get out of... |
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"I think it a lot more than that but I'm sure you don't want to hear about how they helped revitalise engineering and the economy after the war. How they were the car 75% of the population of Africa first saw.
I won't start about they brought mobility to the armed forces and how they were a small affordable tractor for the farming community.
Obviously the fact that they are used by emergency services and voluntary groups use them to rescue people from places inaccessible to other vehicles won't intrest you.
Over 2 million have been made over a 67 year period. Today the last one, a green soft top 90 rolled off the production line.
They are totally at home up to their axles in mud or parked outside Buckingham Palace. No other vehicle has been so versatile, few have the following that Land Rover has.
Environmentally speaking they can be constantly fixed or improved. If it was just a car it would be scrapped not repaired, restored and rejuvenated...
I have had a Land Roverso in my life since 1980. My current one I have 15 years and I have no intention of ever selling it...
In fact I'm going to be buried in it, because it's never been in a mud hole it couldn't get out of... "
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over a year ago
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"I think it a lot more than that but I'm sure you don't want to hear about how they helped revitalise engineering and the economy after the war. How they were the car 75% of the population of Africa first saw.
I won't start about they brought mobility to the armed forces and how they were a small affordable tractor for the farming community.
Obviously the fact that they are used by emergency services and voluntary groups use them to rescue people from places inaccessible to other vehicles won't intrest you.
Over 2 million have been made over a 67 year period. Today the last one, a green soft top 90 rolled off the production line.
They are totally at home up to their axles in mud or parked outside Buckingham Palace. No other vehicle has been so versatile, few have the following that Land Rover has.
Environmentally speaking they can be constantly fixed or improved. If it was just a car it would be scrapped not repaired, restored and rejuvenated...
I have had a Land Roverso in my life since 1980. My current one I have 15 years and I have no intention of ever selling it...
In fact I'm going to be buried in it, because it's never been in a mud hole it couldn't get out of... "
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"ive not heard what is happening to the people who have been making the defender, more eu rules stop production"
It's a combination of things...
It's not pedestrian friendly...
No airbags etc which the EU don't like.
From Land Rover's point of view it's expensive to build. It takes something like 300 employees to build 500 90/110's compared with 150 to build over 1000 Range Rovers...As told on a factory that I did just before Christmas... |
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"I think it a lot more than that but I'm sure you don't want to hear about how they helped revitalise engineering and the economy after the war. How they were the car 75% of the population of Africa first saw.
I won't start about they brought mobility to the armed forces and how they were a small affordable tractor for the farming community.
Obviously the fact that they are used by emergency services and voluntary groups use them to rescue people from places inaccessible to other vehicles won't intrest you.
Over 2 million have been made over a 67 year period. Today the last one, a green soft top 90 rolled off the production line.
They are totally at home up to their axles in mud or parked outside Buckingham Palace. No other vehicle has been so versatile, few have the following that Land Rover has.
Environmentally speaking they can be constantly fixed or improved. If it was just a car it would be scrapped not repaired, restored and rejuvenated...
I have had a Land Roverso in my life since 1980. My current one I have 15 years and I have no intention of ever selling it...
In fact I'm going to be buried in it, because it's never been in a mud hole it couldn't get out of... "
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I learned to drive in one. We had an ex army one at school, I was in the C.C.F. and we spent the autumn term stripping it down to every last nut & bolt, the spring term rebuilding it, then all summer driving it round the school grounds |
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"It's bad news for BMW 4x4 drivers, who is going to pull them out if the mud when they get stuck lol"
All other 4x4 drivers lol...
They'll still be around 100 years from now. |
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By *r ManxMan
over a year ago
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" my £27 tyres have done me proud for years on my mondeo and Peugeot estates."
I spend more than that on condoms.
People don't realize that the quality of the tyre can make a massive difference in braking and can make the deference between life and death
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Used to work there on a regular basis many years ago, got chatting to the chief test driver one day over a brew (had the pleasure of being driven round the test track at their site and the one they use down south by him)- I asked him which was the best, the Range Rover or the Discovery for mud plugging. 'Neither! Both are useless compared to the defender- we always take a 110 along on test days to pull out the posh cars" |
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"It's bad news for BMW 4x4 drivers, who is going to pull them out if the mud when they get stuck lol
All other 4x4 drivers lol...
They'll still be around 100 years from now."
Yep I think you are right,I was reading somewhere that Land Rover think that 70% are still running |
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they have to redesign and retool, no airbags means not legal to sell in the USA where lots of money is, and the engine is overdue a redesign, but I doubt the replacement will be as good as the original. |
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By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago
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"They are ugly vehicles but very practical for off roading trouble is they never go off road unless driven by careless drivers ,very expensive ,very much fuel guzzlers ,tyre treads to die for but I pay £27 for a tyre for mine how much do them beasts cost of course they last a lot longer ,its like choosing a guy for his personality opposed to his looks "
You could not be more wrong
Functional is beautiful and I have been places in mine that you will never see. Expensive? I suppose they are but that is because they last and last and last and are desirable.
Gas guzzler? Don't know about that. I get an average of 28mpg out of recycled chip oil
£115 a corner but I did get over 50k miles out of the last set. They were still good for road use at that but not for the all-round performance I wanted.
They are not for everyone by any means. If you want an adventure then a defender is the car for you. If you want something that just gets you from a 2 b and will be on the scrap pile in an average of 8 years (modern euro boxes expected life span) and you dont care because you change cars as often as you change your underwear then pick a one size fits all eurobox. |
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"Who else is fed up of listening about the land rover defender its a car for f**ks sake. "
A car!!! clearly you know little about the Land Rover Defender. Due to its ladder chassis and meccano style construction the Defender and it's series predicessors have been the most versatile vehicles Land Rover ever built.
Land Rover Defender, more than just "a car" |
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"Never had one, but would love to own a long wheel based version.
What's not to like about them, only thing cooler is the NI snatch van."
Ah, that brings back memories!
I learnt to drive in one, and the snatch vans were amazing bits of kit. |
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Not heard much about them tbh.
Iconic and all that sure...
Shite to drive though...I get given one at Glastonbury and won't drive it..(much prefer the transit and it handles the rough stuff as well as I need it too)...I barely fit and I'm not big...my pal Eddie is quite big and won't physically fit in the thing...the door won't shut with him in the drivers side. They're ridiculous things and pretty Un comfortable. |
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"It's bad news for BMW 4x4 drivers, who is going to pull them out if the mud when they get stuck lol
All other 4x4 drivers lol...
They'll still be around 100 years from now.
Yep I think you are right,I was reading somewhere that Land Rover think that 70% are still running"
that probably right with the other 30% used to keep the others going |
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"Not heard much about them tbh.
Iconic and all that sure...
Shite to drive though...I get given one at Glastonbury and won't drive it..(much prefer the transit and it handles the rough stuff as well as I need it too)...I barely fit and I'm not big...my pal Eddie is quite big and won't physically fit in the thing...the door won't shut with him in the drivers side. They're ridiculous things and pretty Un comfortable. "
He must be big, I am 6'4" and quite wide across the shoulders and have no problems... |
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"Not heard much about them tbh.
Iconic and all that sure...
Shite to drive though...I get given one at Glastonbury and won't drive it..(much prefer the transit and it handles the rough stuff as well as I need it too)...I barely fit and I'm not big...my pal Eddie is quite big and won't physically fit in the thing...the door won't shut with him in the drivers side. They're ridiculous things and pretty Un comfortable.
He must be big, I am 6'4" and quite wide across the shoulders and have no problems... "
I dunno how tall he is but I'm five eight or five nine and come up to his shoulder..he's not slim either.
When I first met him his car was a Ford ka..The littler old ones...that fit him fine...not the landy though so yeah, you get a bigger comfier cockpit as it were in an old Ford ka. Weird given the size of the landy..you'd think there was enough room to think of driver comfort but apparently not  |
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"Not heard much about them tbh.
Iconic and all that sure...
Shite to drive though...I get given one at Glastonbury and won't drive it..(much prefer the transit and it handles the rough stuff as well as I need it too)...I barely fit and I'm not big...my pal Eddie is quite big and won't physically fit in the thing...the door won't shut with him in the drivers side. They're ridiculous things and pretty Un comfortable.
He must be big, I am 6'4" and quite wide across the shoulders and have no problems...
I dunno how tall he is but I'm five eight or five nine and come up to his shoulder..he's not slim either.
When I first met him his car was a Ford ka..The littler old ones...that fit him fine...not the landy though so yeah, you get a bigger comfier cockpit as it were in an old Ford ka. Weird given the size of the landy..you'd think there was enough room to think of driver comfort but apparently not "
Driver comfort is for wimps... |
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"Not normally sex related but I like the idea of a Land Rover only dogging site or naturist site...lol"
hey maybe you can pick me up and take me there as my car won't make it and your 4x4 with :£300 tyres will xxx
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"Not heard much about them tbh.
Iconic and all that sure...
Shite to drive though...I get given one at Glastonbury and won't drive it..(much prefer the transit and it handles the rough stuff as well as I need it too)...I barely fit and I'm not big...my pal Eddie is quite big and won't physically fit in the thing...the door won't shut with him in the drivers side. They're ridiculous things and pretty Un comfortable.
He must be big, I am 6'4" and quite wide across the shoulders and have no problems...
I dunno how tall he is but I'm five eight or five nine and come up to his shoulder..he's not slim either.
When I first met him his car was a Ford ka..The littler old ones...that fit him fine...not the landy though so yeah, you get a bigger comfier cockpit as it were in an old Ford ka. Weird given the size of the landy..you'd think there was enough room to think of driver comfort but apparently not
Driver comfort is for wimps... "
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"Not normally sex related but I like the idea of a Land Rover only dogging site or naturist site...lol hey maybe you can pick me up and take me there as my car won't make it and your 4x4 with :£300 tyres will xxx"
Haven't found anywhere yet...lol |
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"ive not heard what is happening to the people who have been making the defender, more eu rules stop production"
They will be making the new Defender Sport. (Already are) which is nothing like a defender but replaces the sidling freelancer. |
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"ive not heard what is happening to the people who have been making the defender, more eu rules stop production
They will be making the new Defender Sport. (Already are) which is nothing like a defender but replaces the sidling freelancer. "
Nothing in production yet according to the factory.
There is talk of two new models. The replacement Defender and a new lifestyle model baseductive on the dc100 concept vehicle.
On the factory visit in December, we saw a new convertible Evoque and the new Jag F-pace.
The tour guide said that no one outside of the designers knew what the new Defender looks like and it will be 2017 before it goes into production...
On the bright side Frisky is nearly ready to let me buy a 110 to go with the 90.... |
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"Who else is fed up of listening about the land rover defender its a car for f**ks sake. "
. It is a vehicle which has a very long history and will be of interest to people who own them. It is probably best described as a utility vehicle. |
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"I think it a lot more than that but I'm sure you don't want to hear about how they helped revitalise engineering and the economy after the war. How they were the car 75% of the population of Africa first saw.
I won't start about they brought mobility to the armed forces and how they were a small affordable tractor for the farming community.
Obviously the fact that they are used by emergency services and voluntary groups use them to rescue people from places inaccessible to other vehicles won't intrest you.
Over 2 million have been made over a 67 year period. Today the last one, a green soft top 90 rolled off the production line.
They are totally at home up to their axles in mud or parked outside Buckingham Palace. No other vehicle has been so versatile, few have the following that Land Rover has.
Environmentally speaking they can be constantly fixed or improved. If it was just a car it would be scrapped not repaired, restored and rejuvenated...
I have had a Land Roverso in my life since 1980. My current one I have 15 years and I have no intention of ever selling it...
In fact I'm going to be buried in it, because it's never been in a mud hole it couldn't get out of... "
. An interesting history and a good summary of the vehicles achievement throughout the world . |
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