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What the ? New Land Rover Defender

Dickiebird

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It amazes me that anyone on a website such as this would be remotely interested in such a vehicle .
 

Pow-Lo

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I owned a Series 3 for about three months, bought it brand new at the end of 2007 in a fit of mid-life crisis. Whilst the car itself never let me down, it was an excruciatingly expensive mistake. I traded it in for my Skoda Octavia vRS.

As for the old Defenders, they look the business but the panels seem to me to be made of aspirin given how the fuckers melt in the rain. This new one looks like a Mini on steroids. Hideous.
 

Pow-Lo

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The insecure clique club on here, really let's this forum down.
No apostrophe in "let's" in the context of your sentence. "Let's" as you have used it is short for 'let us'.

Stop fucking up the forum with your crap grammar and spelling! :p
 

Pow-Lo

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It amazes me that anyone on a website such as this would be remotely interested in such a vehicle .
Whilst I laughed out loud at this :)beer-toast1:), there's nothing wrong with having more than one interest. As well as bikes, I love mechanical watches and tits, although I do keep my watches off here :D
 

Centaur

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Sadly, and I do mean sadly, Landies were outclassed by Toyotas in the 70s. "Go off road in a Landrover and come back in a Toyota" LR took their eye off the ball and Toyota took advantage. I spent three years in Kenya living in a tent with a Landrover. Only time it didn't bring me back was when I drove it over a 10 foot drop chasing a cheetah. By the time I walked out and came back in another Landrover the Masai had stripped it. Just the body and the splayed front suspension. A few months later there was nothing left. A Landrover was about simplicity, reliability and with a winch on the front would get out of any mudhole.
 

ogr1

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I owned a Series 3 for about three months, bought it brand new at the end of 2007 in a fit of mid-life crisis. Whilst the car itself never let me down, it was an excruciatingly expensive mistake. I traded it in for my Skoda Octavia vRS.

As for the old Defenders, they look the business but the panels seem to me to be made of aspirin given how the fuckers melt in the rain. This new one looks like a Mini on steroids. Hideous.
No apostrophe in "let's" in the context of your sentence. "Let's" as you have used it is short for 'let us'.

Stop fucking up the forum with your crap grammar and spelling! :p

Tiredness kills...also fecks up yer spelling and grammar apparently.
 

derek kelly

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Sadly, and I do mean sadly, Landies were outclassed by Toyotas in the 70s. "Go off road in a Landrover and come back in a Toyota" LR took their eye off the ball and Toyota took advantage. I spent three years in Kenya living in a tent with a Landrover. Only time it didn't bring me back was when I drove it over a 10 foot drop chasing a cheetah. By the time I walked out and came back in another Landrover the Masai had stripped it. Just the body and the splayed front suspension. A few months later there was nothing left. A Landrover was about simplicity, reliability and with a winch on the front would get out of any mudhole.
You were chasing the fastest land animal on Earth in the slowest form of transport on Earth
 

andyBeaker

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Sadly, and I do mean sadly, Landies were outclassed by Toyotas in the 70s. "Go off road in a Landrover and come back in a Toyota" LR took their eye off the ball and Toyota took advantage. I spent three years in Kenya living in a tent with a Landrover. Only time it didn't bring me back was when I drove it over a 10 foot drop chasing a cheetah. By the time I walked out and came back in another Landrover the Masai had stripped it. Just the body and the splayed front suspension. A few months later there was nothing left. A Landrover was about simplicity, reliability and with a winch on the front would get out of any mudhole.
Living in a tent with a LandRover.

That's just weird.
 

Dickiebird

Registered User
Whilst I laughed out loud at this :)beer-toast1:), there's nothing wrong with having more than one interest. As well as bikes, I love mechanical watches and tits, although I do keep my watches off here :D
Don't they have a website of their own so that they don't clutter this one up ?
 
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