[PR] New Land Rover Defender
I think we should look at the new Defender from a different perspective. Opening the brand up to be enjoyed by more people ensures that it lives on, and doesn't quietly become extinct. What has taken place is more a revolution than an evolution, and that's a good thing. When I compare my 1972 Series 3 with my 2003 110 Td5, they are chalk and cheese. One might even call the Td5 luxurious in relation. Hmmm. I don't think so. As many people with D3/D4/D5, and some RR folk have proved, the ability to go offroad lies more in the mindset of the owner than the actual vehicle. If your passion is get off the beaten track, you will. So much depends on doing your homework. It's now just shy of 240 000 miles, and all we've done other than services, is a set of front bearings. The Freelander 2. 2007 model, bought a year ago, 186 000 miles. Apart from new tyres, another 14 000 trouble free miles, all over the UK and continent.
The 1.8-liter Nu also offers Dual Continuously Variable Valve Timing (D-CVVT) camshafts and hydraulic engine mounts for optimum power, efficiency and refinement. Using D-CVVT on both camshafts has several advantages when compared with using it just on the intake camshaft. They include a two percent improvement in performance (increased volumetric efficiency), two percent improvement in fuel economy (reduced pumping loss) and a 30 percent reduction in hydrocarbon emissions. In the valvetrain, roller swing arms and hydraulic lash adjusters reduce valve driven friction to improve fuel economy one percent compared with direct valve driving. The Nu engine also features a maintenance-free silent timing chain system to enhance durability and improve Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH). The application of a plastic two-stage Variable Intake System (VIS), enables switching between long and short intake manifolds, resulting in an across-the-board performance increase. These result in a four percent improvement in performance, a 15 percent reduction in cost and 30 percent reduction in weight, when compared with aluminum.
RANGE ROVERS, the pricey range-topping models from Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), flaunt interiors swagged in leather and wood. Such opulence distracts attention from the car鈥檚 capability as a rugged off-roader, as adept at driving up a mountainside as gliding around the smartest part of town. JLR鈥檚 ability to haul itself out of the mire is also about to undergo a serious test. 351m) in the latest three-month period. On top of that there was a whopping asset write-down, of 拢3.1bn. In the immediate aftermath, shares in its parent company, Tata Motors, which is the carmaking arm of the Indian conglomerate, collapsed by 18% and have now fallen by 60% in the past year. Tata Motors relies on JLR for about 80% of its sales and all of its profits. Despite the blow, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Group as well as the car division, says his company is committed to JLR and determined to turn it around. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
This is pretty cool if you want to use you car as a directional ground plane and gain extra sensitivity in front of you, but will limit the range of the radio behind your car and to the sides. I have explained ground planes in the very complex computer generated diagrams below. An SWR meter is a piece of kit that measures the amount of energy reflected back to the CB when you are transmitting, normally caused by a badly tuned aerial or a lack of ground plane. The idea is to get an SWR measurement as close to 1:1 as possible 1:3 being usable but loosing effectiveness of the radio with the possibility of causing it some damage. My aerial came pre-tuned, and would you believe it, it was very close to 1:1 so it was good to go out of the box. Anyway, enough of the expensive graphics and technical stuff.
In the 1970s a more conventional armoured Land Rover was built for the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Wales called the Hotspur. The Land Rover Tangi was built by the Royal Ulster Constabulary's own vehicle engineering team during the 1990s. The British Army has used various armoured Land Rovers, first in Northern Ireland but also in more recent campaigns. They first added protective panels to Series General Service vehicles (the Vehicle Protection Kit (VPK)). Later they procured the Glover Webb APV and finally the Courtaulds (later NP Aerospace) Composite Armoured Vehicle, commonly known as Snatch. These were originally based on heavy-duty V8 110 chassis but some have recently been re-mounted on new chassis from Otokar of Turkey and fitted with diesel engines and air-conditioning for Iraq. Although these now have more in common with the 'Wolf' (Defender XD) Land Rovers that many mistakenly confuse them with, the Snatch and the Wolf are different vehicles. The most radical conversion of a Land Rover for military purposes was the Centaur halftrack.
