Thread: Land Rover Engineer Requires Info

Originally Posted by ORC1

Hello All

I work in the Land Rover Off Road Capability team based at the design centre at Gaydon, Warwickshire, England. Part of this role is to ensure that LRs remain to be the best off road vehicles possible, I'm currently doing a "real" customer based study into usage and would like comments about our products. I'm mainly interested in current vehicles although I'm still keen to understand any historic issues you guys have.

Thanks for your help.

Lawrence

Lawrence
Have a look at this web sight carsguide.com.au , there are several, interesting and very current reports on Land Rovers

Regards Hodgo

You guys crack me up, send me a PM and I'll respond from my Land Rover email account. Then perhaps you/we can have a decent discussion.

Never had this problem on the US forums!!!

P.S. sorry for my typo!!! Well spotted!!!

Loz

Originally Posted by ORC1

You guys crack me up, send me a PM and I'll respond from my Land Rover email account. Then perhaps you we can have a decent discussion.

Never had this problem on the US forums!!!

P.S. sorry for my typo!!! Well spotted!!!

Loz

You obviously didn't see Top gear in the US

Originally Posted by ORC1

..I love Landys and want to help make them the best possible vehicles we can..

Loz

Bit hard when LR sells to TATA

Only two things I want for Christmas is gal on all the steel bits and economical diesels that'll run biodiesel.

If you want a guzzler stick with the V8.

Cheers
Simon

Originally Posted by Rovernaut

Bit hard when LR sells to TATA

I suspect the Indians could build a better car than Solihull - the British car industry isn't known for greatness.

Originally Posted by ORC1

You guys crack me up, send me a PM and I'll respond from my Land Rover email account. Then perhaps you we can have a decent discussion.

Never had this problem on the US forums!!!

P.S. sorry for my typo!!! Well spotted!!!

Loz

Lawrence

I will take you at face value.

Regarding the US forums - the problem there is that they are full of Yanks. The Americans have always had a so so relationship with the Land Rover marque, sometimes they were importing and selling them but a lot of the time they didn't. Although that said there is a strong enthusiast base for Land Rovers like the Doormobiles and Carawagons in the US.

In Australia we have had an ongoing relationship with the marque from day one, even though for some years Land Rover left the dealers without Series/County/Defender models to sell for over a year at least on one occasion. And other occasions when the NADA spec vehicles had things like tuned Westlake headed Rover 6 cyl while we got detuned standard headed Rover 6 cyl.

At the end of the 1960s Land Rover had the overwhelming majority of the Australian 4 wheel drive market, British Leyland squandered that market lead by giving us things like the Series 3 in the early 1970's when we could have had the County at the same time. Land Rover had all the technology in the Range Rover but didn't translate it to the Defender style vehicle for 15 years, by that time Land Cruiser was holding the majority market share followed closely by Nissan.

At this juncture, Land Rover has an opportunity to recover some of it's traditional market share or potentially loose this faithful market sector altogether.

In these copious volumes of posts there is significant information, much of it using available technology Land Rover already has.

I'll leave it there.

Regards
Diana

P.S. Yes I have owned Land Rover products, new and old continuously since 1968.

Originally Posted by ORC1

You guys crack me up, send me a PM and I'll respond from my Land Rover email account. Then perhaps you/we can have a decent discussion.

Never had this problem on the US forums!!!

P.S. sorry for my typo!!! Well spotted!!!

Loz

Mate we are Australians, we are sceptical after years of having many overseas marques dump stuff on us.