Quote Originally Posted by Rick Fischer View Post
Go back to First 2 door and first 4 door RRC ...... and yes the LJ is a marketing exercise, but if they could have built one like the old one they would have; Defender reason.

Did speak to LR engineer involved with Pirente, now a few years ago, they would have loved to build RRC replicas as they came in what?? 83 84 with modern fuel efficient engines, sell like hot cakes. Just can't!

Cheers

RF
The first 2 doors were quite light, but the first 4 doors were hitting 2 ton. My 93 is 2.1t completely stock. My 85 is 2.3t with 4BD1T and strong gearbox. Why do you think an early 80's 4wd would sell at all, let alone like hot-cakes?

Toyota couldn't build a true to form FJ for development cost. It would also sell terribly.
The market for vehicles you need earmuffs in at 100km/h is quite small.