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    Japanese Landrover

    Spotted this today in a Super Autobachs store in Tokyo :P
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    Land Rover has a large range of non vehicle 'life style' accessories to bring the brand into your life. Or alternatively if you prefer extract more of your cash.

    Land Rover UK - Merchandise - Land Rover Gear

    What is avaliable tends to vary year to year. A few years ago there was a large range of prams and child car seats all of which were Land Rover branded.

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    Hey Mark, keep your eyes open for a real Japanese Land Rover.

    The Honda Crossroad of the early 1990s will look much the same as your Disco .
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    Where does the oil leak from?
    Do they have a special reservoir that you have to top up or does the chain have a constant drip lubricator?

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    For what it is worth, the company started (as J.K. Starley Ltd) off building sewing machines and branched out into building bicycles. This venture was so successful that in 1896 the name was changed to the Rover Cycle Co. , with the name coming from a bicycle model name first used in 1884. Car manufacture started in 1904, with cycle dropped from the name the following year. Bicycles continued to be made and sold under the Rover name until 1926. The Landrover name was introduced as a model name in 1948, and became the company name in 1989. (ref. J.Taylor)

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    A bit of trivia: the Polish word meaning a "bicycle" is ROWER (pronounced 'rover', with, as it should be, with rolling "r's").

    The origin of that word, as I long expected, comes from the brand name of bicycles manufactured in Britain in the 19th Century - yup, the good old Rover Cycle Co.

    So it is quite right for me to use, in total, three Rover vehicles: two Land-Rover cars (Freelander and the SII) and one Land-Rover Defender Kanaha Mountain Bike....

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    A couple of more bits of trivia - the reason for the popularity of the Rover bicycle is that it was the first (or at least first successful) "safety bicycle", that is one with two relatively small wheels both the same or nearly the same size, with the rear wheel driven by a chain from pedals.

    This sort of history was not uncommon in the early days of motoring - when I was growing up, the family car, my mother's bicycle, and her sewing machine, were all made by the same company, Swift of Coventry, albeit probably over a time period of about 1880 - 1931.

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    I thought this was going to be about the Honda Crossroad
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phoenix View Post
    I thought this was going to be about the Honda Crossroad
    So did I...

    Oh well here's the photo I prepared earlier


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    Quote Originally Posted by 3toes View Post
    Land Rover has a large range of non vehicle 'life style' accessories to bring the brand into your life. Or alternatively if you prefer extract more of your cash.

    Land Rover UK - Merchandise - Land Rover Gear

    What is avaliable tends to vary year to year. A few years ago there was a large range of prams and child car seats all of which were Land Rover branded.
    Mate I went through the link - this made me LMAO;

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