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Originally Posted by p38arover
Call my Land Rover a Jeep is fight talk in my lanague
Had a chap call my landy a jeep up at the cape and told him thanks your suzuki Serria is nice too (he had a kitted up 100 seris Land Cruser. )
He got the message :)
G'day Folks :)
For Ford US and PAG, the Landrover Defender is only a VERY small part of the operation, and it is a vehicle that is not Safety Compliant in the USA so they are not going to outlay huge amounts of $$$ on production, they have stated that it might not be produced much after 2010/12. Their main market isUK/ Europe and the Middle East, so their sales and marketing are geared towards that, Australia is only a VERY small market, and there are signifigant Import Restrictions and Duties, around 331/3% I think :( that, in the light of Japan and Korea being "Preferred Trading Partners" with 00%-5% import duties, that then sets the Sales Prices, and coupled with the low $ Marketing Budget, and the "When they want a new "Rover/Landrover/RangeRover", they will come in and purchase one" atitude, then Sales will be at a minimum:(
cheers
land Rover advetise very heavly in the Uk but alot of people will say they don't . The ans to that is you don't move in the right circles:)
They are main sponsers for most of the horse events in Europe and most of the sailing events These are the two sports thay hit hard with advertising
Getting back to the new Tojo, i heard a whisper it'll be around 70k for the cab chassis. Can't see them moving to many of them.