mike wilson wrote:
---- Cotty <[email protected]> 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!
;-)
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