Defenders on Maxwell Hill Malaysia

[Avion8]

If you are ever in Taiping Malaysia a must do is a Defender ride up Maxwell Hill, also now called Bukit Larut:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/736.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020311_zpsjl9llakf.jpg.html)

A recent Puma locally built:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/737.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020312_zps93sbgpvh.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/738.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020314_zps9vwsbeva.jpg.html)

Some in need of a little TLC:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/739.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020315_zps5q2ztqcy.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/740.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020316_zpslgcggla1.jpg.html)

Some needing a wash:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/741.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020317_zpsyfhuivju.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/742.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020318_zpsckcoga2m.jpg.html)

The Tdi we went up the hill in:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/743.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020323_zpsytl4poor.jpg.html)

Must have met one coming the opposite direction!

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/744.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020324_zpsjo3uqlcj.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/745.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020328_zpslecfk6ng.jpg.html)

The road is narrow, 13.5 kms & climbs 1030 meters with the longest straight about 80 meters: Up in 3rd & 4th gear, down 2nd all the way:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/746.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020331_zpsjhfasleh.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/747.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020333_zps4ipurwpg.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/748.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020334_zpszpbe88ww.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/749.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020336_zpsw5l1ufk7.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/750.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020338_zpse9lgppeq.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/751.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020339_zpsxxg3sbcs.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/752.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020341_zpsyowcd0fh.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/637.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020343_zpspsl2iqac.jpg.html)

ride down in the Puma:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/753.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020364_zps7dszo2fs.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/754.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020366_zps8xcp7zyn.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/755.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020368_zpsr34tl6pz.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/756.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020369_zpsbbyntvxl.jpg.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/757.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020371_zpsburt7zm9.jpg.html)

Some of the turns were so tight that the tyres were rubbing - they must have adjusted the stops to get a bit more lock:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/04/758.jpg (http://s938.photobucket.com/user/jodel1050/media/Land%20Rovers%20in%20Malaysia/P1020372_zpso73jfzui.jpg.html)

Well worth the RM 30 paid for the 5 of us, and better than a Disney roller coaster:D

[tact]

Try counting the land rovers up Cameron Highlands! :D

[Avion8]

I did try, but would have needed a few more days. As it was my wife & friends believe they had been set up by me when they saw all those Land Rovers diving around, so an extension in the Highlands was out of the question:(

Also saw a couple of nice Range Rover Classic 4 doors in CH.

[Landybitz]

When I was last in Borneo, we spent a day spotting land rovers, put a thread up about it a few years ago, never seen so many land rovers in one day, the small villages are a great place to find them, they come out out of the hills pick up supplies then disappear again.

A fair few new ones too, more 110 HCPU than any other type.

Strange why they don't offer the 130 HCPU, I believe a few have been Imported by the government.