Right!! The Series and hence the Defender where based on the Jeep Design. Also if you think about the fact of what rovers are in the UK. They are in every bodies drive and you have lots of parts available and they are a dime a dozen used.
So yes Rovers are to the Brits what the Jeeps is to the Yanks.
That makes you wonder about a few things. They said it's the first Defender with A/C I know several people that have defenders with A/C. I guess the are talking about as a standard feature.
Also it's interesting that LR is now using a Ford Diesel in the UK and Ford is going to be using a LR Diesel in the US.
That being said I want one of the 2007 Defenders with the 4cyl. Diesel.
Right!! The Series and hence the Defender where based on the Jeep Design. Also if you think about the fact of what rovers are in the UK. They are in every bodies drive and you have lots of parts available and they are a dime a dozen used.
So yes Rovers are to the Brits what the Jeeps is to the Yanks.
I realize this... but... "Britain's Jeep", to a RoverHead, is just a slap.........
Right!! The Series and hence the Defender where based on the Jeep Design. Also if you think about the fact of what rovers are in the UK. They are in every bodies drive and you have lots of parts available and they are a dime a dozen used.
So yes Rovers are to the Brits what the Jeeps is to the Yanks.
People use them for work in the UK... Here girls drive around with the top off in the summer.
"When will we get a Defender? Maybe in 2013
Sales in the United States will be critical for the Defender replacement, which is scheduled for 2013 in Land Rover’s future product plan. To justify the investment, Land Rover reckons it must double yearly sales of 25,000 to more than 50,000. It can count on new markets such as Russia, China and India for some of that increase, but the United States will be the key.
Front and side airbags will be a prerequisite, and so will an all-new chassis, because today’s simple setup won’t allow airbag integration.
Land Rover can’t look to its own technology, either. It admits that the platform under the LR3 and the Range Rover Sport is too expensive for a vehicle that needs to list from about $40,000 in the United Kingdom (that figure includes a heavy dose of taxes).
One possibility is for the next Defender to share development with Ford Europe’s Transit truck, which offers flexibility of construction, a huge variety of body styles and toughness closer to the Defender than Land Rover’s other upmarket models."
Great. It's going to be a bus.
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Any Defender sold in the US market is going to be a shaddow of its former self. Build quality and cup holders will be the order of the day. Loaded down with a gazillion airbags, dvd players and and other fluff. You will see adds on TV of the truck driving through a puddle on a gravel road and think to yourself, I had a 1973 Plymouth Fury that could do that! This may be the only way forward for Land Rover but to all you Guys with the old Defenders, Series and Range Rover Classics; Dont trade them in, Sure the new ones will not leak (as much) have more power (well some more I hope) and be way more enviromentaly sensitive but then all the fun of Rover ownership will be gone!
The new defender will be nothing like any of us would want, especially the people that have them now so I don't know why everyone gets their hopes up.....
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I don't think of the Land Rover as "Britains Jeep". After all, a jeep is quite useless (other than carrying 2-4 people from a to b). You can't tow much with a jeep, can't fit much cargo in a jeep. Land Rovers are much closer in use to a pick-up truck in America. (by the way, in the UK Jeeps have proven to be very popular with the gay community)
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