Reply With Quotethey are leaf sprung
how crap!
YarnMaster
Santana Worldwide
This is in no small part due to the recent announcements by Land Rover that they are soon to cease production of the long running Defender series and, with Land Rover's order books full for the final production run vehicles, the Santana is making strong headway as it's replacement.
Wizard
they are leaf sprung
how crap!
2004 Black Range Rover L322 Diesel
SysAdmin (Owner)
parabolics and by all accounts are a very very capable truck...
wish they had dealers out here...
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ChatterBox
SupporterAnnouncement by Land Rover under whose management?
I can see the Tata produced Defender being used by Indias military as a replacement for the Indian bred jeeps, and the Indians will be enamored by its colonial charm. That should also see it break into new 3rd world markets where it is currently outpriced by Land Rovers elitism. Tata will have to get an in-house motor for it - how about the TDV6 for starters, and the TDV8 for H/Duty applications.
....always hoping...
if not, then we can anticipate used Defender prices will continue to increase, like in the USA.
Sorry to give you the bad news TDV6 & TDV8 owned by FORD,would be a lot of papadums traded to buy them.Originally Posted by Michael2
Wizard
SubscriberPart of the deal with selling LR was that Ford would keep supplying engines.
Swaggie
I see they had a 4 litre petrol engine and a 6 cylinder diesel engine way back in their Landrover. This is what we at Leyland Truck and Bus would have loved to have got the pommie twits to do. Get some decent grunt up front to be able to compete with Toyota on a level playing field.
URSUSMAJOR
Master
makes sense. I hear LR didn't place a tender with the ADF for the Last round.
Looks like Santana just kept making series III
YarnMaster
Pretty much, just with a different engine and a few tweaks to the body.
Have a look at their truck cab though... There's loads more space in there than a Defender. I have wondered how easy it would be to fit the Santana roof & cab rear to a Defender.
M
YarnMaster
Nowt wrong with leafs... Unless you're lazy. Properly maintained, they're fine.
M
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