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muddywheels



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60 Years of Land Rover

Just saw this and thought it might be of interest to members.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7400223.stm

Hope TATA keep it going another 60 years+ Thumbs Up

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Matei



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Read somewhere that the first LR model was about 450 pounds, which was probably expensive in 48.
When I was a little boy I had a ride in a 60 is Defender (older then me at that time) and actually saw the same LR driving two years ago. Cannot say it was the same engine butit was the same car.
Allways wanted to own a LR since.
Dream came true Very Happy
LR will be there long after us Thumbs Up FREELANDER 2 TD4 SE (XS UK) IZMIR BLUE SIDE STEPS COLD PACK BI-XENON TINTED WINDOWS - AND PROUD OF HER

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Matei wrote:
Read somewhere that the first LR model was about 450 pounds, which was probably expensive in 48.
When I was a little boy I had a ride in a 60 is Defender (older then me at that time) and actually saw the same LR driving two years ago. Cannot say it was the same engine butit was the same car.
Allways wanted to own a LR since.
Dream came true Very Happy
LR will be there long after us Thumbs Up


When I was a little boy (over 50 years ago) my grandaddy had a Rover 80 with REAL wood dash and REAL FULL leather and I loved the smell and textures in that real car, and I wanted one. Later a mates father had a Real Jaguar (with real wood and leather) and I wanted one of those as well Laughing
After owning many different cars myself with plastic seats and plastic imitation wood, I decided that this time I would afford a (Land) Rover with real leather seats. But oh! what a dissapointment to find it was only the seat facings that are real leather Big Cry If only they gave us the option to have full leather (as BMW) does, I would gladly have paid the extra, but you can keep your nasty plastic wood trims Rolling Eyes 2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
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Post #20158 14th May 2008 8:52 pm
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A present

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Matei wrote:
A present

&feature=related

I wonder how the FL2 compairs with the Defender offroad and if it would also wipe the a Censored s off the X5 Rolling Eyes 2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
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this is embarassing !

&NR=1

I hope FL2 would do better (it doesn't carry as much weight which may help!)

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muddywheels



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AndyC wrote:
Matei wrote:
A present

&feature=related

I wonder how the FL2 compairs with the Defender offroad and if it would also wipe the a Censored s off the X5 Rolling Eyes


See here

&feature=related

All tested Thumbs Up

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Re: this is embarassing !

avtur wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ShJZnH3flQ&NR=1

I hope FL2 would do better (it doesn't carry as much weight which may help!)


I can only imagine that they have very bold tyres, and have switched on sand mode (or turned off TC altogther with a software update), otherwise the TC would kick in, and stop the wheels spinning.

Gives LR a bad name, if you've read some of the comments on youtube, and yet I think they've gone out of there way to be able to do this, for fun.

Rich

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muddywheels wrote:
AndyC wrote:
Matei wrote:
A present

&feature=related

I wonder how the FL2 compairs with the Defender offroad and if it would also wipe the a Censored s off the X5 Rolling Eyes


See here

&feature=related

All tested Thumbs Up


Now these guys had a nice day off.
I think that the FL2 would have done better than the X5 but than the FL2 should be compared with the X3 and there is no doubt who helds the upper hand.
The X5 I think should be compared withthe D3 and again there is no competition there either FREELANDER 2 TD4 SE (XS UK) IZMIR BLUE SIDE STEPS COLD PACK BI-XENON TINTED WINDOWS - AND PROUD OF HER

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Re: this is embarassing !

avtur wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ShJZnH3flQ&NR=1

I hope FL2 would do better (it doesn't carry as much weight which may help!)


I would say that this is way more embarrasing.

&NR=1

The language in the background is romanian. It was probably filmed during winter holidays when posh SUV owners go to chalets in the mountains and have the missfortune to find more mud than they can cope with.
Not really funny from the X5 point of view as it had what?- 200 HP Question beeing pulled out by a 4X4 1P with a traier Rolling with laughter FREELANDER 2 TD4 SE (XS UK) IZMIR BLUE SIDE STEPS COLD PACK BI-XENON TINTED WINDOWS - AND PROUD OF HER

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