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Re: AUSSIE ARMY DITCH LAND ROVER RUBBISH...

>Now we at least have a mobile army that can move when THEY need to, >and not when the old piles of shit L/R decided to work/operate... > >Land Rover turned out to be the least reliable most problematic piles- >of-shit God ever gave breath to.... > >Why did'nt they just buy the best in Toyota's and be done with it??

We used to use Landcruisers in the eighties in the 5th and 6th military districts. From my perspective, the best thing was that they had a car radio, unlike the Landies. ;)

It didn't hurt that they were a lot faster - their fuel consumption, however, was a big pain in the arse - imagine the logistics of a 4,000 km off road mission without accessing civilian fuel supplies.

Our LRP SIIA could do 3,500 km with the onboard fuel. No chance of doing that with the Tojo. Plus the fully loaded weight of the LRP SIIA was 40 kg less than the empty weight of the Tojo....

OTOH, the body design of the Tojo made it easier to attach various odds and sods to the body here and there. And the foot vent was great too.

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Paul Saccani
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"OURS"

So your from Calcutta India then?

You Poms have pissed all your car industry away, i suppose Morgan [wood chassis] is till Pommy owned....

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PaulpULVITZKA

"OURS"

So your from Calcutta India then?

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  1. Tata are Bombay based.

  1. I'm in Bombay right now, and they do seem to be selling a few Discoveries here at the moment...

  2. It's "you're".
Reply to
William Black

Morgan still do make Ash frames vehicles and have full order books for them but they also make state of the art ally framed cars too.

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out the Aero models, I only wish I could afford one. There are other specialist builders around too, McLaren being one that is well known. (you have heard of the F1?) We are also the leading place in the world to build real racing cars due to our engineering excellence.

As for our volume car industry, it had to become global one way or another and due to poor management it got bought up instead of doing the buying. Other players just came here and built new factories because they realised our workers and engineers were first rate (Nissan, Honda etc). The Nissan plant is one of the worlds most efficient. Ford and BMW make a lot of their engines in the UK.

And your car industry?

Reply to
Bob Hobden

They don't make wooden chassis cars anyway, the frame is what supports the bodywork. Marcos made some cars with actually wooden chassis.

Reply to
Ian Rawlings

I think if you close the windows, open them again, apply the handbrake then select "N", then "D", then "R" then press "Start" and "Horn" at the same time, it'll enter admin mode and you can play solitaire!

Reply to
Ian Rawlings

while you wait for the AA man to arrive to deliver you to your nearest Toyota dealer...

I'd never buy a toyota - I'm saving for a real OTA

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Tony L

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