First Look: 2005 Land Rover LR3

[Liviathan]

blah!! No more SUV's!

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: XietyCOM

Originally posted by: Shockwave
Integrated body frame is just a fancy way of saying that the LR3's traditional ladder frame is aided in crash-worthiness by a body that has almost unibodylike strength. In most typical body-on-frame designs, the frame provides all the strength while the bolted-on body simply holds the passengers. The LR3's body, though, has extra strong sills that literally envelope its frame. So closely does it wrap around, in fact, that in the case of an accident, the body is forced into the frame rails greatly adding to its strength. Land Rover says that this significantly increases resistance during offset crashes, the common bugaboo of body-on-frame designs.

THATS impressive. I hate Unibody's, but in this case, a unibody on frame should be, as they say, very stiff. On the whole, I like

Whats the price of that? I didnt see it.....

it says on the page, $69,000.

Oh well...guess I won't be buying a new one soon. Then again I should be able to get one a year old since Land Rovers freakin' depreciate nearly by half a year old.

Edit: I see that was a fake price. :disgust:

 

[pcmodem]

Yeah, and I'll bet it'll get like 15 MPG city, 18 MPG highway.


Yet another vehicle that will keep us dependent on the oil industry.



Cheers, :beer:
PCM

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: pcmodem
Yeah, and I'll bet it'll get like 15 MPG city, 18 MPG highway.


Yet another vehicle that will keep us dependent on the oil industry.



Cheers, :beer:
PCM

If you aren't driving an alternative fuel powered vehicle, you need to STFU.

 

[iamwiz82]

Take something as innocuous as the key fob, for instance. Land Rover claims that the LR3's will still work after being submerged in 75 feet of water. And to prove its point, it had one sitting in a column of water that it fished out for a demonstration (this from a company that used to have problems making its electronics work when there was a morning mist hanging overhead).

How did they waterproof the exhaust pipe, axle, tcase, and engine vents?

 

[JDub02]

i like it.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Take something as innocuous as the key fob, for instance. Land Rover claims that the LR3's will still work after being submerged in 75 feet of water. And to prove its point, it had one sitting in a column of water that it fished out for a demonstration (this from a company that used to have problems making its electronics work when there was a morning mist hanging overhead).

How did they waterproof the exhaust pipe, axle, tcase, and engine vents?

LOL, the key was under 75 ft of water, not the truck!

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Take something as innocuous as the key fob, for instance. Land Rover claims that the LR3's will still work after being submerged in 75 feet of water. And to prove its point, it had one sitting in a column of water that it fished out for a demonstration (this from a company that used to have problems making its electronics work when there was a morning mist hanging overhead).

How did they waterproof the exhaust pipe, axle, tcase, and engine vents?

LOL, the key was under 75 ft of water, not the truck!

Whoops, I misread that.