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  1. 13th November 2008, 09:08 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot View Post
    Is that a spelling mistake or a jibe

    I still think we could call it a Storm Defender
    Don't the Germans call some of the Land Rover products "Stormer"? I have definitely heard of Range Stormer, so IMHO the "Storm" Defender could get confusing.

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    Now if the Land Rover marketing bozos had gotten their act together and actually named the latest model (a'la Tdi, Td5 etc) and their bean counters could have seen their way clear to stump up the cash and stick a badge on it somewhere, then we would not need to waste time having this argument.

    I mean come on, every other recent model is usually identified in conjunction with its engine configuration (Td4, TdV8, V8i etc.). Why not the new Defender? "TdCi" - it's only FOUR LETTERS - how expensive would a few stickers have been? I wouldn't even mind if they weren't put on straight - well maybe a little.


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    Ours is, and forever will be, a Td5. And it has no stickers to say as much.
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    nup no stickers on ours either........but I do like the name Storm..........hey wasn't there a Holden called Storm



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    I've got a mate with a Mazda Rx8 - I might start calling it a Wankel...
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    It's just what you are used to.

    Before the Storm engine was released (and long before I bought a Landie) I heard all about it from one of my mates who was consulting to LRA and it was always Storm, then, when it's released it gets a common alpha-numeric abreviation name which the great unwashed know it by.....

    BTW, I'm pretty sure the 2/300Tdi was called Gemini....
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    Quote Originally Posted by solmanic View Post
    I've got a mate with a Mazda Rx8 - I might start calling it a Wankel...

    Which reminds me of a great T shirt a few of the Rotary boys wore back when Alan Moffat (and a couple of the privateers) were driving a sports car in the Australian Touring Car Championship.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rick130 View Post

    BTW, I'm pretty sure the 2/300Tdi was called Gemini....
    you are correct


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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot View Post
    TD5 stopped being written on them quite early on actually... maybe 00 or 01?
    Very late 02/early 03 actually

    Could not, would not, EVER, call my vehicle or it's engine "STORM"! Hate them - cheating arrogant, barstools.

    Why don't we call Td5's Eels if we are going down the rename road.
    Why? They have many of the Eels qualities

    Highly talked about
    Love em or hate em
    People swear by em or at em
    Overpriced
    Under performing
    Unreliable
    Inconsistent
    Developed from something that has a proud history, and whose dominance and glory days seem a long time ago!
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    I suppose someone had to do it....

    Quote Originally Posted by dobbo View Post
    I Like it

    And that could apply to anything younger than 1987, guys can call eachothers cars Puma and Storm, petal and lilly. All a bit hippy to me personally.

    We, the Isuzu owners have one thing you guys can never have. Almost a litre of displacement per cylinder.


    Let us quickly compare a brand new Puma to my 23yr old Isuzu County ''The Turdis''


    Puma has electronic traction control and antistall, so what but it has a low low range

    The Turdis has a 380kg 4BD1 over the front axle providing enough traction, plus try stalling one in Low Range.

    The Puma costs $52000 Amazing how everyone carrys on about the cost of the puma with no advancement look like they kept up a tradition to me

    The Turdis cost $54000 on the road in 1985 ( I have the receipt) houses cost less back then

    The Puma has a 6speed box and can reach 120kph the puma can reach 120 and go on with out shaking your teeth out and you can still talk

    The Turdis has 4 gears but can sit comfortably on 130kph all day without issues

    The Puma has central locking and an imobiliser

    The Turdis came out with deadlocks on the front doors yep and thats just plain dangerous

    The Puma has a place for your cuppa on the rocker cover

    The Turdis has the ability to Froth milk on the Rocker cover therefore a Cappucino is possible yep i'll give yeh that one wouldn't mind a nice latte out of the puma

    The Puma has an upmarket dash and carpeted interior Has 7 REAL seat capacity with REAL SEAT BELTS THAT WONT FRACTURE YOUR PELVIS

    The Turdis does too plus 9 seater capacity

    The Puma has a LSV version in the SVX

    The Turdis has one too, it's called a Perentie

    The Puma has great reports from around the globe

    The Australian built Isuzu County is regarded as the ultimate Land Rover by many around the globe. Strange as I would of thought if was an australian built car how can the globe know what its like to own and drive?

    Do I need to go on?YES the biggest thing a puma has over an isuzu is it doesn't come in a ****ty brown colour thank god
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