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Defender on a Diet

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littlepow:
Just make it into an Ibex, space frame chassis and grp body wieght less than a cast iron(ok  it's just steel box section, but weights the same.) chassis and aluminium body. That and it would look a bit different.

Magnum335:
What mpg are  you actually getting?

Litch:
LR did the same exercise for the MOD many years ago and came up with the LWT.
The problem is that there is not a lot you can do to save weight on a road going vehicle and the best LR could come up with was making the vehicle as basic as possible and making it quick & easy to strip down to get down to the target weight for air transportation.

The best advice I can come up with is don't carry a lot of unnecessary equipment, make sure the tyres are road biased & correctly inflated and drive with a light right foot.

smo:
Currently i get 25ish local, 28combined and about 32-35 motorway...but this isnt about saving on my MPG, this is about making the (new) truck lighter because heavy doesnt always = good, in fact in most cases lichter is better.

Light vehicles manover better, dont sink so much in mud, and give better power to weight ratios which is good both on and off road.

I'm thinking i might have to do some analysis of box section chassis to see how big and how many holes i can cut in it without loosing too much strength, i think it might be a supprising ammount :)

As for IBEX's, i'm not overly keen on the "look" to be honest, so shant be doing that. Also fibreglass by its nature is quite heavy, either that or really weak, aluminium panel is probably just as light for this kind of application and as such might as well stick with almost standard body panels for ease as much as anything.

AbyssDJ:
i dont like ibex's either. buy a wildcat? :D

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