[lro] Land Rover - SUV or not?

From: Ian Stuart (Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 04:29:36 EST

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    Watched a program on the telly last night (Sunday) called "Car Junkies",
    which was about the love-affair with the 4x4.

    They talked about the wyllis jeep, and the Land Rover, then the
    emergence of the big 4x4 station-wagons in the US, which was the start
    of the SUV marketting drive.

    They then pointed out that actually, the Range Rover was launched in '72
    - before the station-wagons, and was the first real SUV (the land Rovers
    being farmers work-vehicles, not sports vehicles)

    They then went on to talk about the car makers getting the SUV's classed
    as Trucks, and I changed channel to watch a program about The Magic
    Roundabout...

    So, a series land rover is a) not a truck, and b) not an SUV.

    :-)

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