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That is absolutely hilarious!!!! Made me laugh out loud at the PC - good job there's no one about!!
As for project codes, it was under the BMW era that the codes changed from apparently random building names etc to simply L** for Land Rover projects, and R** for Rover projects.
So CB40 became L20
the 1998 series 2 Disco (tempest) became L25
the current (BMW) Range Rover programme became L30
Defender stayed as Defender
the Disco series 3 programme (continuously undermined by BMW) became L50.
When Ford took over, all the codes had to change again, in keeping with Ford worldwide practices.
So L20 became L314
Defender became L316
L25 Series 2 Disco became L318
Series 3 Disco became L319
New Range Rover Sport became L320
P38a range Rover became L321
L30 Series 3 Range Rover (BMW) became L322
And what was the benefit of all this naming and renaming of programmes?? Nothing at all. Complete waste of time, money and effort by Ford and BMW.
They should have spent more time on looking at innovative technologies, interesting product, and worthwhile markets, and less on non core **** like this sort of admin.
So we now need to update the forum title with the pre-ford model designators too, and I reckon you should put in the Code name as well