Thread: Defenders to be Built in New Delhi

Been to a toyota plant? World leaders in quality systems.

They wrote the book

Toyota Production System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Actually, a yank (Deming) did but no one would listen to him backhome. But the Japs loved it, embraced it and went from being perveyors of poorly made, reverse engineered products to leaders in quality and innovation.

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

Been to a toyota plant? World leaders in quality systems.

They wrote the book

Toyota Production System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Actually, a yank (Deming) did but no one would listen to him backhome. But the Japs loved it, embraced it and went from being perveyors of poorly made, reverse engineered products to leaders in quality and innovation.

Yeah... Pity this all stopped with the 45 series and their product quality has dropped lower and lower ever since...

Got to love JIT systems... Then add Six Sigma, Black Belt / Green Belt to the equation.... And you'd wonder why their vehicles have such weak bodies, failing components and welds...

Or why they cost cut so much now the later vehicles are failing a lot....

Still puzzled though about the "Dummy Spit" remark...

Whats being referred to?

Originally Posted by Tombie2

Yeah... Pity this all stopped with the 45 series and their product quality has dropped lower and lower ever since...

Got to love JIT systems... Then add Six Sigma, Black Belt / Green Belt to the equation.... And you'd wonder why their vehicles have such weak bodies, failing components and welds...

Or why they cost cut so much now the later vehicles are failing a lot....

Yep, they've sure dropped in quality since the 40 series stopped in 1984

Please enlighten us to all these failures? maybe your thinking of nissan

Originally Posted by rovercare

Yep, they've sure dropped in quality since the 40 series stopped in 1984

Please enlighten us to all these failures? maybe your thinking of nissan

Prados break diffs if the school driveway is a little uneven

Originally Posted by Tombie2

Still puzzled though about the "Dummy Spit" remark...

Whats being referred to?

When you left you went through and started deleting your posts. Why?

Back to the subject of "Knockdown Kits"
If you were to build your own just think of the improvments you could make.
Heaps of sound proofing for a start. You could build in access hatches here and there to get to the difficult to reach bits, the posibilities are endless. Cut the edge of the front shock towers so you can lift them off without having to drop the springs away, etc, etc and so-forth.
If those of us with Defenders put our heads together we could come up with mods that would make it the easiest vehicle to work on since the model A.
I'm interested.

Originally Posted by Stephen Price

Back to the subject of "Knockdown Kits"
If you were to build your own just think of the improvments you could make.
Heaps of sound proofing for a start. You could build in access hatches here and there to get to the difficult to reach bits, the posibilities are endless. Cut the edge of the front shock towers so you can lift them off without having to drop the springs away, etc, etc and so-forth.
If those of us with Defenders put our heads together we could come up with mods that would make it the easiest vehicle to work on since the model A.
I'm interested.

Just wondering, with all the changes made, who is going to send their car it to be crash tested? Or can you get away with it being a kit car? They tried to get Defenders into the US as kit cars, but it ended up a no-go.