Thread: 2010 defender in 4wd action mag.

Gavins Defender looks absolutely awesome ! A well engineered & thought out rig.

Theres also a section on buying second hand and low and behold a Defender is also featured. (owned by someone at Opposite Lock Southside) ...shame they put some of the editorial under the Triton also featured.

Good to see some coverage on LRs this month ...other than just in the Ads !

Mark

Yeah, it's just a pity that last month they had a section on the best engines and the writers didn't mention anything from LR, but went for the engines they'd grown up with (slow old Toyotas and Nissans), yet this month they say the TD5 is one of the best engines ever. I guess that's just different points of view of their writers.

Maybe thats one of the reasons it's not popular?.With magazines the single most important thing is to not talk BS because the people who read it generally know allot about the vehicles involved and once the BS starts it looses credibility. Pat

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yeah, it's just a pity that last month they had a section on the best engines and the writers didn't mention anything from LR, but went for the engines they'd grown up with (slow old Toyotas and Nissans), yet this month they say the TD5 is one of the best engines ever. I guess that's just different points of view of their writers.

Strange that.As I was reading a few months ago,where they were recommending that anyone considering a LandRover to buy a v8 as the TD5 was one of the most unreliable motors around.Funny how the wheel turns,maybe written by a different journo though!!!

Wayne

Probably shows that most of them have never owned a Land Rover and are only repeating what they've been told by other ToyoNissan owners.

In the "best diesels" article they only really had the toy/datsun 4's and 4.2 diesels. They didn't even hint at all the other toy diesels, 2.4, 2.8, 3 (hilux).

They DID briefly mention the 300tdi in a positive light, but said parts availability was limited in the outback. I was about to arc up, but seriously, its a fair comment. I had a water pump and fuel lift pump fail, and had to get parts from Alice to fix. If it was a toy/datsun then you could most likely go to any old outback junk yard and get the parts you need.

The "journalism" in that mag is pretty **** poor and very poorly researched. The DVD's, custom 4wds, travel features, ads and the pretty pictures are good, but 90% of the words is just filler crap.

In a CV special they said landrovers didn't have CV's, they had unis................ Very well researched.........

Originally Posted by zuno555

<snip> In a CV special they said landrovers didn't have CV's, they had unis................ Very well researched.........

And they keep insisting that Defenders/Disco I & II's have auto locking hubs........ Every time I think about getting a subscription again, (as I do like the DVD's), I read something like that.

Cheers,

Tim

E-mailed Shaun Whale, Deputy Publisher [ leisure], 4wd action mag., for permission to place photos on AULRO site. Permission was given, as long as I credited the mag [fair enough].I mentioned the lack of L.R. articles, his reply was
"A word on the Land Rover shortage. It's not that we dont want to run them, it's just that we struggle to find modified ones to run in our magazines . I think it's hard to beat the looks of a modified Defender[ or Disco for that matter] and I'm sure you'll agree! It's just a matter of finding them, I'm sure there are a few out there ".

Considering the mag. seems heavily dependant on ARB, TJM, for ads. etc. I suppose I can understand the need for modified vehicles. I was tempted to say the average off the floor L.R. will match it with most of the modified Toyotas and Nissans , but thought better of it! I guess the ball is in our court if we want to raise the profile of L.R. in the mag. Bob