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Rich_P:
thermidorthelobster, I was never disputing that Land Rover make cars to sell.  It's just how I feel that the brand name has just ceased being what it used to be. :)

More and more people just buy the vehicles for the name.  I bet the sales may be differant if the very same vehicles had Ford or Volvo stamped on them rather than Land Rover.  :lol:

Thrasher:
Um....guys the RR has a lot of X5 (well 7 series as well!) stuff in it as well ... the X5 shares, however, more with the Freelander than the Range Rover...

Eeyore:
Interestin' thread  :)

Before we all get carried away by the hyperbole police  :wink: , lets not forget in all this, the D3 / RRS was NOT based on a Ford product, because the most likely Ford product wasn't good enough, so LR stuck two fingers to Ford and did their own thing instead of raiding the parts bin. The new Freelander isn't based on the likely Ford product (the Escape) because it wasn't good enough. So LR stuck two finger up and did something Ford weren't expecting (albeit with a little help from the parts bin). I'm not even gonna mention where the original LR S1 concept came from!  :wink:

At the end of the day, in todays age you can't build D1s or Defenders - the laws just won't let you sell 'em to the big markets anymore. Sadly, times change, although with pride I note we change only with reluctance!

With that new Ford thing, I can't see what the fuss is about. Clearly Ford have taken styling cues from what they consider the best SUV and morphed them into the 'interesting'  :-s  design Thrasher linked to. I really don't see how that implies that LR have been sold up the river, or mugged, or any other of the inappropriate phrases that may have been used.

I think we should also bear in mind that without BMW (as unsrupulous as you like) the L322 RR wouldn't have been a monocoque and wouldn't have been as good. BMW split LR from Rover - now that was a masterstroke  =D>  and was probably the only thing that saved LRs behind from being dragged down with the rest of the Rover group and sold to even more unscrupulous Chinese businesses.

Can't we just be greatful for what we've got? It could have been soooo much worse!  :shock:

But dang, that Ford thing is hideous!

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

H:
Looks like one of the big old toy cars stamped out of sheet tin I used to play with at my grannys

H

Eeyore:

--- Quote from: "H" ---Looks like one of the big old toy cars stamped out of sheet tin I used to play with at my grannys

H
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 :lol:  Spot on!

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

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