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Seat Safety Switch posted:Chop parts out of her then pull them out and replace them with newer parts in the company of other men? I like to cut mine up into large chunks and then put it in front of the house. People always drive by looking for scraps.
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 18:11 |
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Kill-9 posted:A '93 Defender 110 NAS. 1 of 500 and worth $60-70K on average. Some really nice examples top six figures. I'd trade all my cars to have one. What? Why are they so expensive?
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 18:33 |
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Sockington posted:I like to cut mine up into large chunks and then put it in front of the house. A quick bath once a year to rinse off the worst of the salty residue.
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 19:06 |
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Traded in every other year for a new model while having no real commitment to own.
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 19:11 |
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beedeebee posted:What? Why are they so expensive? With the now-legal importation of coilers due to them passing the 25 year age watershed, perhaps US prices will dip a bit, but I'd imagine a genuine NAS model will always be pricey.
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 19:32 |
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Octopus Magic posted:Traded in every other year for a new model while having no real commitment to own. I think you're supposed to install a bunch of silly upgrades, including a new "body kit". Then, once you've upgraded her as far as possible, you buy a new project and put the old one up on Craigslist. Also, you're supposed to have a daily driver that is far more fun than the project car. So she'll end up rotting in the garage, trailered to the bar, and put on display for every redneck to feel up and take tasteless pictures of. Edit: frankly, I'm amazed she bothered writing a book like this. Modern life is fantastic.
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 20:23 |
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Brings a whole new meaning to "fart can".
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 20:44 |
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No one has accused a playmate of being smart.
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 20:50 |
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Pray every day that someone totals her so that you can collect the insurance money.
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 21:21 |
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Operating her drunk is probably a lot of fun, but if you do it enough times you or someone else is going to end up hurt.
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 23:10 |
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BoostCreep posted:This car has been sitting on the same street for a year and only gets moved once a week for street cleaning. It's one block away from my office and I see it every day. I'm really tempted to leave a note on the window offering to buy it. Not that I need a 5th car, but at least it'll see some use. FFFF, buy that. One of my favourite 90s japanese cars.
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Kill-9 posted:A '93 Defender 110 NAS. 1 of 500 and worth $60-70K on average. Some really nice examples top six figures. I'd trade all my cars to have one. In Australia, thats a $7500-10K vehicle....
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 23:21 |
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Think I found the perfect gift for my Secret Santee
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 23:25 |
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I love talking about/looking at pictures of ones I'll never have while on the internet. Err, we're still talking about pairs of designer jorts, right?
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# ? Nov 28, 2012 23:56 |
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:I love talking about/looking at pictures of ones I'll never have while on the internet. That one works whatever way - cars, girls, or jorts.
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# ? Nov 29, 2012 00:20 |
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I don't see the point in the expedition sized Discovery when you can get a Turbo Unimog (lets say, a u1300L equipped with medic/expidition box) for cheaper and is better in every way.
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# ? Nov 29, 2012 00:50 |
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Ferremit posted:In Australia, thats a $7500-10K vehicle.... It feels good for us to be the ones with a cheap used car, for once.
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# ? Nov 29, 2012 01:03 |
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Get'er good and lubed up then ride like there's no tomorrow?
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# ? Nov 29, 2012 01:43 |
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I always want to contribute to this thread, but worry that I'll be repeating content from the past. Here is my own content though, a few cool/interesting/neat cars from last years Pacific Raceways Vintage Races:
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# ? Nov 29, 2012 06:39 |
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Ferremit posted:In Australia, thats a $7500-10K vehicle.... Even a brand new one is less than that.
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# ? Nov 29, 2012 06:46 |
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InitialDave posted:Rarity. I'm thinking the prices will stay high on the real NAS 110 models. I have noticed a softening of the prices on the NAS 90s. That's why I sold my NAS 90 a couple months ago. Get out while the prices were still good. If you're in the market for a 90 why spend $25-30K when you can import a 25 year truck for $10K and use the savings to upgrade it better than an NAS?
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dissss posted:Even a brand new one is less than that. A brand new landrover is less that $7500? Where?
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Cakefool posted:A brand new landrover is less that $7500? Where? I think he means less than 60-70k.
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Stealth Like posted:I think he means less than 60-70k. Where?
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General_Failure posted:Where? Earth.
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# ? Nov 29, 2012 22:31 |
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General_Failure posted:Where? A base model 2013 D90 with a hard top lists under 20,000 pounds sterling in the UK. A double cab 130 is under 25k. These are work vehicles, not Merc G wagons.
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# ? Nov 29, 2012 23:37 |
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Just looked it up and a D110 wagon is 55k brand new in Autralia
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Motronic posted:A base model 2013 D90 with a hard top lists under 20,000 pounds sterling in the UK. A double cab 130 is under 25k. Not even available in the US. The newest 110s we have are now 20 years old and sell for more than that. I'd kill for a brand new 110 Double Cab. I got to sit in one in Rio 2 years ago and it's light years different inside than my old '94 was. If the local dealer got them in, especially with a diesel, I'd be down there with cash in hand the same day. It's my belief that Land Rover in the US wants to be seen as only an upscale brand. If they brought over 'work trucks' they think it'd lessen their branding.
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Kill-9 posted:Not even available in the US. Being from the US, I'm quite well aware of that. But that's not the question I was responding to. Kill-9 posted:It's my belief that Land Rover in the US wants to be seen as only an upscale brand. If they brought over 'work trucks' they think it'd lessen their branding. Yes, this has been the Land Rover strategy since the beginning of their entrance to the US market, and is quite a well known fact. It also has a lot to do with import duties, which is why you don't seen many foreign work trucks in the US ("chicken tax"). The question was basically "where in the world is a Defender less than $75k." My answer is: lots of places, most certainly in the UK.
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# ? Nov 30, 2012 00:47 |
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^^^ the Chicken tax is only on trucks with beds, if it has back seats it doesn't count. A Ranger Rover Sport starts at $60k in the US, a Discovery/LR4 at $49k. A Land Cruiser 200 is almost $80k to start.
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Throatwarbler posted:^^^ the Chicken tax is only on trucks with beds, if it has back seats it doesn't count. Ford goes through great lengths to bring in Transits as passenger vans (throw away the rear seat belts and seats and weld up the holes where the windows used to be) in order to circumvent the import tax (they build them in Turkey). These do not have beds. The chicken tax is just as applicable to many Defender specs as it is to Transits.
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Motronic posted:Ford goes through great lengths to bring in Transits as passenger vans (throw away the rear seat belts and seats and weld up the holes where the windows used to be) in order to circumvent the import tax (they build them in Turkey). These do not have beds. That's a "bed" to me, but I guess it doesn't matter. I'm aware that you can buy a pickup version of a Defender, but the chicken tax doesn't affect the majority of then that aren't pickups.
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Throatwarbler posted:^^^ the Chicken tax is only on trucks with beds, if it has back seats it doesn't count. Thats seriously not a huge amount less than the AU$ price of a 200 series- Its kinda surprising considering how much of a massive markup aussie cars generally have on em. the RRS is $110K drive away for the base spec and $188K for top of the line one, the Disco 4 starts at $77K for the TDV6 and jumps to $140K for the V8 range topper. A Defender 110 station wagon is $55K drive away!
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Throatwarbler posted:That's a "bed" to me, but I guess it doesn't matter. I'm aware that you can buy a pickup version of a Defender, but the chicken tax doesn't affect the majority of then that aren't pickups. OK, so first of all everyone else understands you in the future: a bed is understood to be typically uncovered, like a pickup - and most importantly separate from the passenger compartment. A 2 seat defender with a box on it does not have a bed, but it would be considered a non-passenger van, therefore the chicken tax applies. Secondly, my point in this is that even if Land Rover wanted to it would be overly complicated and/or expensive to bring in work models of Defenders and Discos, which is why they never did and one more "market force" that caused the only logical market entrance to the US to be "upscale" luxotrucks. This is a company that until recently couldn't justify designing or purchasing a modern motor and resorted to using the same fundamentally unchanged-since-the-60s-plans-bought-from-Buick v8 (until 2004) and still uses warmed over electronics out of Mercs or from Bosch and whatever else is cheap and seems to fit in the basic spot they planned out. They certainly would not have had the investment capital of Ford to gamble that a complicated 3rd party on-shore conversion would ever ship enough units to pay for itself, and the market for cheap to midline passenger SUVs was already well saturated. Motronic fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Nov 30, 2012 |
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Motronic posted:...and the market for cheap to midline passenger SUVs was already well saturated. Have we forgotten the Freelander already? :iamafag:
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Ferremit posted:Thats seriously not a huge amount less than the AU$ price of a 200 series- Its kinda surprising considering how much of a massive markup aussie cars generally have on em. I would assume that the price is evened out from having to switch the steering column and dash as well as change out the headlamps and whatever else they do to switch from RHD to LHD VV That is strange though, first thing I noticed when I came here from Australia was that cars were stupid cheap (comparatively)
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Black88GTA posted:Have we forgotten the Freelander already? :iamafag: That was going after the compact SUV market (trying to compete with Honda) and was obviously a HUGE mistake. You're absolutely correct, but I was talking about Defender/Disco/Rangie/Explorer/Tahoe sized SUVs (you know, 1/4 ton to full sized stuff) and probably should have specified that.
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I couldn't see Landrover Defenders taking off in the US. Don't get me wrong, I love them but when compared to Jap crew cabs (in the UK) it takes a lot for a Landrover to make sense for private and commercial buyers. I think their position in market place is based largely around reputation and inertia, They are great off road tools but when you take cost, on road comfort and economy and load space into account they aren't so good. I think in the US they would be dead in the water compared to domestic offerings, outside of enthusiast circles. Source: Driving in a LR90 TD5 and Ford Ranger (Mazda B-Series) at work, lots of on road and off road driving. Neither is anywhere is the same ball park as a Freeldaner in terms of on/off road performance. stump fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Nov 30, 2012 |
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Everything was better during the Thatcher years when Britain made real cars. http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/11/avoidable-contact-wont-someone-please-put-land-rover-out-of-my-misery/ quote:
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Posted on another forum. Unsure if correct thread. Anyone know WTF this is? Or how you'd actually get inside? e: allegedly sounded like it had a V8 in there somewhere Black88GTA fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Nov 30, 2012 |
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