I am speaking only for generally available Series II, IIA and III in the US.
Either way I know LR never put Ford engines in Series vehicles during the
60's and 70's. This is a series list. Don't most vehicles coming from the
factory today with 200 tdi, 300 tdi, or BMW diesel have coil springs. In
addition nowhere in the definition of automobile was the suspension
mentioned as a critical part of the automobile. In addition when the new
Defender comes back an engineer will have sat down and decided which engine
is best and place that engine in the vehicle. That is a Land Rover.
Mike
>
>
> >Thus to be a Land Rover one must have the 2.25L Petrol or
> Diesel, or the
> >2.6L.
>
> Twit!
>
> What of the 2.5L versions of the LR engines? The 3.5L stage
> 1 109s? The
> 200 tdi, 300 tdi the storm engine, the BMW diesel engine that
> the Land
> Rover factory in the UK has been installing and shipping for
> years? The
> 3.9 and other versions of the V8? What about all those
> Japanese engine
> Land Rovers that roll out of the factory doors in Australia?
>
> Are you going to tell the Aussies that the car they purchase
> from their
> Land Rover dealer is not a Land Rover? Are you going to tell
> the British
> that the cars rolling off the line in the UK are not Land Rovers?
>
> How stupid can you get!
>
> When the Defender line comes back to the US will you be
> walking a dealer
> picket line with a sign proclaiming that they are selling
> cars that are
> not Land Rovers under the Land Rover name?
>
> How about suspension?
>
> A part of the "series Land Rover experience" is the ride.
> Why are you
> not out there proclaiming that anyone who compromises the series Land
> Rover "feel" with non-Land Rover parabolic springs is no
> longer driving a
> REAL Land Rover?
>
> Get a clue and stop being a parochial chauvinistic bigot.
> There is more
> to the world than North America.
>
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