---- Mark Roberts <msrobert...@ysu.edu> wrote: > mike wilson wrote: > > ---- Cotty <cotty...@mac.com> wrote: > >> On 30/3/09, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> > >>> The next > >>> Defender, BTW, is equipped with air bags. The lack of them in the > >>> current models wasn't a matter of intelligent choice, it was simply a > >>> matter of inadequate resources. > >> The next Defender, if indeed there is such a machine, will not be based > >> on current design. The latest revision (last year) was mainly cosmetic, > >> with newer (and less powerful) engine and gearbox options. AFAIK, the > >> current Defender will stop production within 2 years. Land Rover are > >> currently working on the LR2 but even that is in doubt with the current > >> recession. > >> > >> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7937196.stm> > >> > >> I appreciate you might have inside information, but the situation is > >> very fluid in the financial circumstances. > >> > >> Putting airbags into the old Defender design would be economically risky > >> - no point if it's going to be re-designed from the ground up - hence > >> you are right with the inadequate resources point. They chose not to do > >> it because the line has nearly run its course, and so no budget for it. > > > > They said that about the Royal Enfield Bullet, in about 1959....... > > Good lord, do those have air bags now? When will it ever end!
I don't know. Alternators, disc brakes and alloy wheels I suppose. These Indian chappies (who also own Land Rover now....) are jolly resourceful, you know. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
