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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8578  
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Simple answer is NO.
The U.K. Is still in the EU and will probably be in the EU until 2018 at the earliest. The referendum result voted to leave the EU, but that process has not started yet. Brendan |
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25th Jun 2016 5:51am |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816  
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Switzerland never was in the EU. But has to abide in full by all European car manufacturing specs, including the EU emission norms. No exceptions. Can you imagine that any civilized country would say, oh well, now we are going to produce Defenders again like before.
And how would they do that in the first place? I understood that the assembly line has been scrapped, not even disassembled for later reassembly. Eric You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation. http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I https://vimeo.com/201482507 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw |
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25th Jun 2016 6:44am |
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| lambert.the.farmer Member Since: 11 Apr 2012 Location: harrogate Posts: 2006  
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This is one thing that I would concede to the EU is the quality of air in town compared to say 20 years ago and going back on emissions regs just to keep the defender would be a bit mental. Rhubarb and custard let fly with their secret weapon.
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25th Jun 2016 7:48am |
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| Retroanaconda Member Since: 04 Jan 2012 Location: Scotland Posts: 2615 
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Lamd Rover are there to make money, not produce nostalgia in vehicle form. It was a (long overdue) business decision, nothing to do with EU regs.
They can make far more money selling shopping cars to school run mums |
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25th Jun 2016 9:16am |
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| g-mack Member Since: 07 Jan 2014 Location: northumberland Posts: 1967
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maybe it will give them some leeway in the new design though! My 109 thread
my youtube channel |
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25th Jun 2016 9:36am |
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| DSC-off Member Since: 16 Oct 2014 Location: North East Posts: 1372 
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^ Totally agree with Retro. It was Landrover's decision to stop producing the Defender.
They chose to evolve Range Rovers so they could continue selling them, just as every other manufacturer has done with their model range. |
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25th Jun 2016 9:41am |
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| Al_The_Pal Member Since: 09 Feb 2015 Location: Near the bottom on the right Posts: 146 
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Not sure that JLR will want to build cars they can't sell in the EU or America, kind of limits your options.
Defender is done (and not because of the EU, because they were a poorly selling,hard to build, limited market dinosaur), us in Europe is done, we need to live with that now  |
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25th Jun 2016 9:46am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20124
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I would imagine the new one will be sellable world wide inc the USA.
I doubt I'll be buying any, happy with the one I have for years to come. No doubt anything new would have a Disco price tag too. People will be scared to get it on mud.. |
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25th Jun 2016 11:23am |
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| Sadi Member Since: 23 Jul 2015 Location: Windhoek Posts: 334  
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Yesterday looked again at the YT video of an original Ford Corsair advertisement.
Demonstrated some things regarded as "uncool" - lighting up a ciggie whilst driving and not wearing seatbelts. Maybe in 50 years' time our grandchildren will look at videos of we driving Defenders and think how "uncool" we were ...  |
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25th Jun 2016 1:51pm |
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| gazman Member Since: 17 Aug 2015 Location: Liverpool Posts: 652 
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no major manufacturer will make a car specifically for the UK (bare rhd) now. We are too small to matter. Look at the size of us to say Europe or the states 2014 - current ..... 2003 defender td5 90 (my car)
2009 - current .... 2005 zx10r |
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25th Jun 2016 1:57pm |
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| Pilgrimmick Member Since: 16 Nov 2015 Location: Highlands Posts: 582
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Do not believe that it has been illegal to build them, just to sell them! 80" 1948 Lightweight V8 Bowler Tomcat 130 Station wagon 90 300tdi (Santana PS10 pick up) Range Rover L322 (Ful fat) |
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25th Jun 2016 2:12pm |
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| Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971 
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Correct, which is why export spec Defenders (and other Land Rovers) exist that don't meet EU emissions regs.
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25th Jun 2016 5:28pm |
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| ickle Member Since: 22 Jul 2010 Location: South Vendee Posts: 1766  
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What about the Land Rovers Withams sell 'for export outside the EU only' - could you buy one and sit on it for a bit?
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25th Jun 2016 6:00pm |
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| Cupboard Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2971
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You could certainly buy one and sit on it, I doubt you'd ever be able to use it on the road here though.
I may be wrong, but I'd imagine that we'd err on the side of stricter regulations on emissions if we didn't stick to the Euro emissions standards. |
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25th Jun 2016 8:14pm |
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