Posted by Raven on September 30, 1997 at 13:22:42:

In Reply to: Defender in the US beyond 1997 ? posted by Liam Scanlan on September 23, 1997 at 22:31:26:

Greetings,

First of all. The fact that LRNA is no longer able to import
90's into the US has nothing to do with tarrifs. It is simply
due to the fact that the guys in good old England decided,
probably wisely, that it is impracticle to modify a car line
for a market in which less that 3k of those cars are sold per
year. It is just not a financialy sound idea to do so.
Secondly, there is some talk about developing a monolyth
body Defender. This is just talk but it is talk from
Solihull. I do not like this idea as it would make the
Defender more like a RAV4 and less like the current work
horse.
(I just can not seem to type today)

Rover on

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