From: Jack Lee (milveh@dslextreme.com)
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 09:04:55 PST
Nige brings up a good point, the USMC have been known to employ the
Defenders, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. Must be a good reason for
that and their popularity worldwide.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Hay MILWEB" <nigel@milweb.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] What do you think about Land Rovers as MV's
> 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.
>
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of Ryan Gill
> Sent: 15 February 2006 16:28
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> 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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