Land Rover Based ?

**bobslandies** · 20th February 2010, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Reading all this makes me wonder what Tata will do with the Defender. They gotta be planning something

Tata has it's own range of 4wd utility vehicles - perhaps they will combine a new model? Would that be a "Defata"?

Maybe the "Defeater" - think positive

This is in the pipeline:
Tata Motors - Media Centre
Iveco and Tata explore strategic alliance opportunities

Admittedly a couple of years old but who knows - an Iveco engine and a back to basics rear wheel drive, leaf sprung wide rear door and floor, flat floor with suspension seats bolted through to the chassis, maybe a wider body instead of silly eyebrows - list goes on. The Santana (now Iveco) was already developing along those lines.
Don't forget they had parabolic springs, disc brakes before the 110 as well as the wind up windows, etc already referred to by Ben.

Bob

**isuzurover** · 23rd February 2010, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by Jeff

Land Rover actually helped Santana develop the six but weren't interested themselves as they had a 3.5 V8 petrol, and the market wasn't there for a 3.4 litre diesel in Europe. They later had project Iceberg, to make a 3.5 alloy V8 diesel, so probably not interested in the 3.4 diesel for that reason too.

Jeff

Good points - however the iceberg was a spectacular failure by all accounts (possibly ahead of its time though?).

The fact that LR and Perkins were developing the iceberg proves there was a market there and they were interested in a larger diesel. They could have saved a lot of money and used the 3.4.

**JDNSW** · 23rd February 2010, 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Good points - however the iceberg was a spectacular failure by all accounts (possibly ahead of its time though?).

The fact that LR and Perkins were developing the iceberg proves there was a market there and they were interested in a larger diesel. They could have saved a lot of money and used the 3.4.

The Iceberg was a failure, but I don't know that spectacular is the right word. I'm not sure why it was abandoned exactly, or what vehicle it was intended for (Rangerover?) - perhaps the fact that this was unclear contributed to its demise.

The attraction of the Rover V8 was that it was lighter than the 2.25 petrol - and the diesel version of it probably would have been lighter than the 2.25 diesel, which the 3.4 certainly would not have been - it would have been 50% heavier.

**Jeff** · 24th February 2010, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I'm not sure why it was abandoned exactly, or what vehicle it was intended for (Rangerover?) - perhaps the fact that this was unclear contributed to its demise.

Perhaps the Llama or other 101 replacements.

Jeff

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