continuing tradition
certainly looks like toyota are continuing the tradition of not going for beauty! As I understand it there will be a basic (African...or Poverty Pack) spec version - less plastic and still with the 1HZ engine. Troop carrier gets a normal 4 door configuration making it a lot more user friendly. I believe that mechanically it is unchanged from the windscreen backwards - so both the V8 and the 1HZ versions should be pretty popular. Still can't work out why Toyota are still giving us all these fantastic choices and L/R are still just ar**ng around - putting in a small but high tech transit van engine in the Defender - I think they have rolled over and given up competing. Real pity. I am in the process of changing my Defender to a new (but 2006 model) troopy - certain aspects of the Defender are super, but L/Rs evolution now seems focussed only on the Chelsea Tractor market - as usual the Defender just gets a parts bin treatment...
Gil
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