[Newsbot]

Title: MAX HASTINGS pays tribute to the Queen's favourite Land Rover Defender
Category: Business
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-07-09 00:36:58

[andyt]

How hard can it be to bring the engine up to modern pollution standards and take out those lateral rear seats? (Seems to me the 60`s LR I had had a proper forward facing back seat.). If they have good sales, this just makes no sense. OTOH, the Toyota and Nissan offerings are better anyway, and more reliable.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

OTOH, the Toyota and Nissan offerings are better anyway, and more reliable.

By no stretch of the imagination is a Toyota Rustbucket or Nissan Mallfinder in any way better than a Defender. Like the article says, "It is estimated that three quarters of all Land Rovers ever built are still surging noisily across country somewhere."

Whereas 3/4 of all Toyotas or Nissans that don't have a jihadi mobile gun placement in the back are happily rusting away somewhere.