RE: What do you think about Land Rovers as MV's

From: Nigel Hay MILWEB (nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 08:17:33 PST

Whilst I have never owned an ex military landrover, I currently have a
Discovery and its the most dissapointing vehicle i have ever owned, apart
from its superb off road performance. I actually suggested to the smart arse
answering the phone at landrover UK "Welcome to the landrover Discovery
Customer Realtionship Experience" that a warning saying "be prepared this
vehicle will break down form the day you buy it" should be included in all
sales material- he missed the point.

However our military have vast numbers and the Series 3 ones were in service
for about 30 years. I bleive the USMC have some defenders these days.

Curiously the French fire brigade favour them( Defenders and Wolf) over the
Peugeot alternatives.

NIGEL HAY
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Sent: 15 February 2006 16:28
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Subject: Re: [MV] What do you think about Land Rovers as MV's

At 6:16 PM -0800 2/14/06, Jack Lee wrote:
>Anyone have any comments, good or bad, about ex-military Land Rovers? I
thought one might be nice to own, but have zero experience with them. Had a
quite a bit of "unpleasant" experience with Jaguars over the past years,
which sort of soured me on British vehicles, until I bought a Ferret. Now
that was a marvel of simplicity and ingenuity.

I can't say that I have any experience with them other than in passing, but
a Land Rover 101" Forward Control has been on my short list of Post War MVs
for some time. I can't decide between the artillery tractor version with the
break down sides or an ambulance or command/wireless version. 

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