Alright, so I sent a message to Land Rover asking them why they've been dragging their feet about bringing the Defender back to the States (and by this I mean the real agricultural Defender, not some scaled-down RR Vogue or LR3 with a fancy interior). I waited maybe a day received a message back from their customer relations people: apparently, for the current Defender 90 & 110 to be legal on US roads there have to be serious changes made for emissions and safety.
Emissions I can understand, but safety? It's been proven that in a collision the current crop of Defenders is at least 2x safer than the safest Volvos currently on the streets. That's not safe enough? It can't be that hard for Land Rover to install some airbags in the front! Come on! (Oh, and if I'm being ignorant about something here, I apologize. Please tell me. I'm not trying to seem like a moose about this!
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