Thread: 1980's 130 Dual Cab?

While county is a trim level, if it is the only trim level available then the vehicle becomes known as a County.

Originally Posted by rar110

Great workshop poster Murray, even features the Perentie.

I remember seeing a similar chart some time ago. Someone has been keeping this one up to date, it's even got the LRX on it.

Murray

Originally Posted by slug_burner

While county is a trim level, if it is the only trim level available then the vehicle becomes known as a County.

Yes, except that the trim level "County" was also used on Range Rover and Series 3. And the term has been used in complete error to refer to 110s that are not at this trim level, which was only used in Australia for the wagons, as far as I know. Certainly the vast majority of ones that are not wagons did not have this trim level.

So while it is accurate to refer to a 110 wagon as a County, because no other trim level was sold here, it is also confusing, because it is not unique to these and does not recognise their commonality with the other body styles of this period.

The problem arises because until the introduction of the Discovery, "Landrover" meant the "working" vehicle - Series 1, 2, 2a, 2b, 3; 101;90;110 - distinguishing them as working vehicles from the Rangerover, which was not marketed as a Landrover. But introducing a new range (Discovery) which did not have an established market required that it have a manufacturer name. Historically it should have been a Rover, but that name had been trashed by its use by Leyland on less than successful vehicles after they had similarly trashed the Austin and Morris labels. This played into Landrover's aim to move the company from a supplier of utility and military vehicles back into Rover's traditional market selling to the upper middle class in the UK after losing most of their market to Japanese manufacturers, mainly as a result of Leyland using Landrover to prop up other parts of the company when it was the only successful part of the Leyland in the seventies. To do this they had to invent a new name for the 90/110/130, and this was Defender. But this could not be made retrospective easily, as there was seven years production of these without this label.

John

John - given what you have just said I think you need to change your signature block to something like

JDNSW
1986 110 5 Door 3.9 diesel (County Trim)
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol