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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7114148" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>Apart from the back end it's no uglier than any current Range Rover model. The back end can be improved by an aftermarket filler panel, which seems to be quite a popular mod [no wonder!], but why LR persist with the unbalanced design despite almost nobody liking it is beyond me. Unless it is pure arrogance on the part of the designer, Gerry McGovern, which wouldn't surprise me at all. Company management at JLR always have been arrogant tossers who never listen to constructive criticism even when it comes to improving build quality and reliability. I remember being on a local off-road demo back near the launch of the 110, must have been 1983, when one of their demonstrators, subsequently promoted to a top management position and probably recently retired, just would not even consider the fact that their new 2.5 Diesel engine was still drastically underpowered at 67hp and that Daihatsu in particular had far better performing reliable engines. The subject of turbocharging came up and he swore that LR would never ever consider it because they needed to be repaired [presumably] using a rock, a stick and possibly some string in the depths of a jungle or isolation of the desert. Which was, even then, a complete load of balls, as anyone who ever ran one can testify. I don't recall the three third gear synchros or the new crank that my first 110 needed in two years from new being repaired so easily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7114148, member: 718"] Apart from the back end it's no uglier than any current Range Rover model. The back end can be improved by an aftermarket filler panel, which seems to be quite a popular mod [no wonder!], but why LR persist with the unbalanced design despite almost nobody liking it is beyond me. Unless it is pure arrogance on the part of the designer, Gerry McGovern, which wouldn't surprise me at all. Company management at JLR always have been arrogant tossers who never listen to constructive criticism even when it comes to improving build quality and reliability. I remember being on a local off-road demo back near the launch of the 110, must have been 1983, when one of their demonstrators, subsequently promoted to a top management position and probably recently retired, just would not even consider the fact that their new 2.5 Diesel engine was still drastically underpowered at 67hp and that Daihatsu in particular had far better performing reliable engines. The subject of turbocharging came up and he swore that LR would never ever consider it because they needed to be repaired [presumably] using a rock, a stick and possibly some string in the depths of a jungle or isolation of the desert. Which was, even then, a complete load of balls, as anyone who ever ran one can testify. I don't recall the three third gear synchros or the new crank that my first 110 needed in two years from new being repaired so easily. [/QUOTE]
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