From: Adam Flinton 

Steve Ewing wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:47:24 +0000, Adam Flinton
>  wrote:
>
>> The UK assumes an insurgent war & has a range of either low impact
>> vehicles (e.g. the Land Rover is a common sight generally in much of
>> the  world) or armoured wheeled vehicles e.g. the Saxon
>>  http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/av/av_sxn.htm
>>  Which are designed to be less "threatening" to the locals while
>> protecting the squaddies.
>
>
> Good point-- I find the *commercial* Humvees to be intimidating.  FWIW,
> I  also don't care for the most common version of the Land Rover to be
> found  here-- it looks like you could tip it over by leaning against it:
> this is  the one, I think, the Discovery:
> http://www.landrover.com/us/en/Vehicles/Discovery/Overview.htm
>
> My grandmother used to work at British Leyland in NJ, later
> Jaguar-Rover-Triumph; and my mother took her job when she retired.  I
> have  here on my desk a pencil cup from them with some 70's-era cars on
> it  (Austin America, MGB, MG Midget, MGB/GT).
>

Good grief.

The nice thing about the landie is that it defies the elements (in stark
contrast to other Uk cars of that period).

Adam

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