FlyingPete
Well-Known Member
A proper Landy does not have independent suspension.
Any reason? Or just nostalgia ain't what it used to be? Technology marches on and all that...
Any reason? Or just nostalgia ain't what it used to be? Technology marches on and all that...
It's not the nostalgia. The lines on this get blurred around the time LR introduced the Defender. Prior to that it was unequivocal what"Land Rover" meant. They weren't sold as "Series", just Land Rovers. So, by definition to me the last proper landy was the Series 3. A RR, Disco & Freelander are inherantly not "Land Rovers", they are just badged with a different brand name. Is a Defender a Landy? Mmmmm. Different body, chassis, engine, drive train and fittings. A Defender to me is derivative of a Series landy for these reasons. The last real landy for me are the Series 3.
Turboman
Mab An Gov
90/110?
blackstrat
Well-Known Member
Did you mean Ninety and One-Ten?
Datatek
Well-Known Member
It seems to me a proper landy has beam axles. Independent suspension on the newer models seems to have achieved nothing but a higher failure rate of the various bushes.
Technology does indeed march on, but it's not always better, for instance Ford seem the have developed an hydraulic clutch mechanism on the Focus that causes the clutch to fail at around 6,000 miles
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Turboman
Mab An Gov
Did you mean Ninety and One-Ten?
Semantics aside,
90/One-Ten were the last non-model named landy, which was what johns seemed to be saying.I an way I agree and I suggested as much earlier in the fred
blackstrat
Well-Known Member
sorry turbo I can't help myself.. blame James Taylor and his history books I obsessed over as an uber-keen LR nut.. before a dinosaur ate them..Semantics aside,
I an way I agree and I suggested as much earlier in the fred
Turboman
Mab An Gov
No worries!
And your statement is well founded, in the original owners book for my vehicle it does say Ninety:One-Ten on the title page. On the bonnet of the early models it is badged Land Rover Ninety, but on the late ones like mine it has a little plate with the number 90.
I never pay any attention to that sort of stuff, I just drive the things, and work on when there is an issue. Remember the dinosaur though, it was tasty on the barbie!
Unclefester
Active Member
It's got to be thee 90 200tdi.
300bhp/ton
Well-Known Member
The binnacles have been fine in all the S3's we've had. But preferring the minor differences of a 2a to a 3 isn't enough to claim the 3 isn't a proper Landy. They are 99.5% the same.
300bhp/ton
Well-Known Member
A proper Landy does not have independent suspension.
Why not?
Vehicles just as capable as older Land Rovers did.
300bhp/ton
Well-Known Member
What a complete load of nonsense.
You do realise that the Ninety and One Ten where not called Defender, they where just "Land Rovers" at introduction.
And the Range Rover did indeed carry the Land Rover badge.
Datatek
Well-Known Member
Why not?
Vehicles just as capable as older Land Rovers did.
I never said a 4 x 4 with independent suspension could not do what a Land rover does, indeed my Pajero went places where I'd never dream of going in a P38.
Austin Champ 4 litre RR engine?
Turboman
Mab An Gov
Why not?
Vehicles just as capable as older Land Rovers did.
Wow!
That is really clean and tidy, someone has put a lot of time into that! 
