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What a whinger. Get yourselves a REAL Landrover - with leaf springs - and then you are entitled to take the p*ss out of all the other cossetted so-called Land Rover drivers.

I'm glad to say I sold off the County. It had too much power, seats were too comfortable, road noise wasn't load enough and didn't leak enough. And that ridiculous amount of axle articulation.

Don't get me started on Td5 Defenders - b*st*rd children of R*nge Rov*rs and REAL Landies...

But welcome, mate, regardless of the poofy car you drive.

Originally Posted by scrambler

But welcome, mate, regardless of the poofy car you drive.

My carpets are dirty...

Welcome anyway - I have no problem with Discos, and I have to admit that my County has carpets - but the 2a doesn't. What I will take issue with though is calling a Landrover a truck.

Looking at the Australian Concise Oxford I see a truck is defined as "a large powerful motor vehicle for transporting goods etc". (there are other meanings but none relevant) The only Landrovers this could conceivably apply to are tray top 130s or 110 6x6s, and then only barely. It certainly could not apply to any station wagon body or even without a severe stretch a ute. I am aware that in the US the word has a different meaning, but beg to point out that Australia is not a state of the US, and there is no reason for using their dialect of English.

It is a Landrover, Land Rover, Disco, Rover, Rangerover, Defender, wagon, ute, vehicle, four wheel drive, 4x4, wheels, (have I missed anything?) but it is NOT a Jeep, a Toyota or a Truck!

rant over,

John

Mine's a truck, John - Truck, Utility, Light G.S. Cargo to be precise.

Sorry to take exception, but it's just that sort of thread.

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Looking at the Australian Concise Oxford I see a truck is defined as "a large powerful motor vehicle for transporting goods etc". (there are other meanings but none relevant) The only Landrovers this could conceivably apply to are tray top 130s or 110 6x6s

What about Seies 3 Traybacks ?

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Looking at the Australian Concise Oxford I see a truck is defined as "a large powerful motor vehicle for transporting goods etc". (there are other meanings but none relevant) The only Landrovers this could conceivably apply to are tray top 130s or 110 6x6s

What about Seies 3 Traybacks ?

I'll concede that - after all "ute" is short for "utility truck" - same applies of course to Scrambler as he reminded me. But it cannot be applied to station wagon type bodies, and the usual, informal way of referring to these would be ute or utility rather than truck unless you are aping the Americans.

John

I thought he said "powerful", I guess that would rule out many land rovers anyway....?