LR & Jag to reduce platforms to 2

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It's been coming, the LR4 is close to the RR Sport. The LR4 doesn't have the toughness of the D1 or D2. If Tata were smart, it would make a Disco that were simpler and tougher like the first two. This would lower the cost and American's would love them.
 
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roverMc said:
It's been coming, the LR4 is close to the RR Sport. The LR4 doesn't have the toughness of the D1 or D2. If Tata were smart, it would make a Disco that were simpler and tougher like the first two. This would lower the cost and American's would love them.
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roverMc said:
It's been coming, the LR4 is close to the RR Sport. The LR4 doesn't have the toughness of the D1 or D2. If Tata were smart, it would make a Disco that were simpler and tougher like the first two. This would lower the cost and American's would love them.
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The ironic thing is when Defenders were brought over, dealers could hardly sell them. Many of them became fleet vehicles for company employees just so they could sell them as demos. Everyone said that they wanted it, but that turned out to be a small majority. The same thing would likely happen if they tried to release a basic vehicle into the market without all the bells and whistles. There would be a handful of die-hards out there who would buy one when it first came out and that would probably be the extent of it.
 
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I?m afraid that all makers from the world expect to sell cars in USA, the bigger market, so they make what the most people want. This is "with all the bells and whistles".
All current LR products -included "Puma" Defenders- are equiped with luxury but, if the rig is 100km far from dealer, in a less developed country, you are lost.

So I dream with a LR TaTa "a little bit rest of world oriented" product, haha!
In the meantime I will survive with the '98 D1...

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Well I 'expect' a true off-roader so if they design a soft CUV then I will stay with what I have (98' D1 & 95' RRC) and move on to another more qualified 'platform'.

A bigger freelander is a joke.
 
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Ryanleea said:
I predict the end of Dweb in 10 years
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Don't bet on it.
The last full size jeep left the assembly line in 1993. Yet, the BBS (analog of DW for this particular brand of nutjobs) is alive and kicking.
I am pretty sure there's one for Binders, that haven't seen new offspring since 1980.
 
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MarkP said:
Well I 'expect' a true off-roader so if they design a soft CUV then I will stay with what I have (98' D1 & 95' RRC) and move on to another more qualified 'platform'.

A bigger freelander is a joke.
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Mark, buy yourself an L322, you won't be disappointed. I hear the Jag-powered ones are better than BMW.
 
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Mark, buy yourself an L322, you won't be disappointed. I hear the Jag-powered ones are better than BMW.
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I drove both the jag powered and the BMW and bought the BMW L322. Not so much because of the engine but because the six speed tranny could not figure out what gear it wanted to be in and the five speed was more efficient at putting the power down to the wheels.

I do like the fiddly knob though.
 
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garrett said:
It has been ending long before that. LRNA was neutered a while ago.

Toyota will carry on making solid axle, turbo diesel, simple and reliable trucks for quite some time. 70 series have a expansive market.
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You're right - ended about 1999 for me. Somehow to see this in writing marks the the true end though...............
 
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