Thread: Defender Improvements

Is that why you never see any land cruisers in europe? too dirty?

That info was hot off the press. Not even the LR dealers knew that much.

In about 3 years time my Defender will be up to around 120,000 and the lease will be finished, so going for one of these beauts will be good. 6-speed auto has to be better economy, quicker, quieter at speed...a worthwhile upgrade methinks plus all the other little things. And if the payload, space and suspension are kept the same that'd be great.

BTW I've now seen a coil D3, air D3 and Defender go over exactly the same articulation track and I can say the Defender definitely does it the easiest. Significantly greater travel.

Originally posted by Timmo
Is that why you never see any land cruisers in europe? too dirty?

Pretty much, Land Cruiers and patrols will need new engines soon to meet the stricter standards in Australia.

From what an article said in a magazine i was reading at zook the TD5 was built to easily meet the standards for a long time to come. My guess is ford wants to switch to one of their engine and not BMW based engines. Matt

The new Defender diesel motor will be a development of the current 2.2 Pug / Ford motor used in the Ford Modeo but taken ot to 2.7 litres.

LRH

Originally posted by Bytemrk
Gruntfuttock Wrote: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Why??

They meet the Swiss standards are they are fairly strict.

I think he said it was to do with new stricter European emmission standards that are coming - The TD5 passes now - but won't pass the new rules when they arrive in Europe [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

So they obviously need to have a plan now[/b][/quote]

Thanks.

For those that do not know, Switzerland is NOT in Europe........














Well polictically anyway, but they are heading down the wrong track hence we are getting out now.

One of the politicians here said on the radio "the future of the foreigners in Switzerland does not lie in this country, but in theirs" :roll:

Originally posted by rmp
That info was hot off the press. Not even the LR dealers knew that much.

In about 3 years time my Defender will be up to around 120,000 and the lease will be finished, so going for one of these beauts will be good. 6-speed auto has to be better economy, quicker, quieter at speed...a worthwhile upgrade methinks plus all the other little things. And if the payload, space and suspension are kept the same that'd be great.

BTW I've now seen a coil D3, air D3 and Defender go over exactly the same articulation track and I can say the Defender definitely does it the easiest. Significantly greater travel.

Glad to see that they are still looking to keep the same basic style, that is one of the reasons why it is popular over here. The farmers, timber fellars etc, do not have to vacume the carpet and oil the leather seats

Hoo bloody ray. The TD5 is agood engine but revised seating and air con, bloody marvellous. May have to wait and get a 130 after all.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>not BMW based engines[/b][/quote]

the TD5 was never a BMW engine, it was solely developed by Land Rover before BMW bought them. They just didn't have the funds to put it into production till the Bavarians came along.