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Land Rover says diesel power coming to North American lineup
« on: March 24, 2015, 02:19:00 pm »
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Land Rover says diesel power coming to North American lineup
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2015, 04:58:10 pm »
About bloody time!!!!  Now hopefully they will start offering it in the LR4 and Jaguar models.
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Re: Land Rover says diesel power coming to North American lineup
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2015, 06:05:42 pm »
Isn't this old news?
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Re: Land Rover says diesel power coming to North American lineup
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2015, 09:38:25 am »
As much as I like diesel I don't know if someone who can afford a new Land Rover really desires a diesel here considering the difficultly of finding diesel in every gas station.
From my dealing most folks with a Land Rover and similar tend to do a company leases and have a company gas card. They're more about convenience than optimizing fuel economy or the added torque a diesel engine provides.
Winter diesel prices vs gasoline prices seem to be getting greater every year also. Offsetting the adding driving distance diesel fuel also provides as a savings.

N.B. - I noticed higher diesel uptake here seem to be buyers with some connection to Europe. Understandable considering diesel acceptance in Europe vs old N.A. view of black, dirty and smelly exhaust.

All anecdotal and observational of course.
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Re: Land Rover says diesel power coming to North American lineup
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2015, 09:46:03 am »
Quote from: redman on March 25, 2015, 09:38:25 am
As much as I like diesel I don't know if someone who can afford a new Land Rover really desires a diesel here considering the difficultly of finding diesel in every gas station.
From my dealing most folks with a Land Rover tend to do a company lease and have a company gas card. They're more about convenience than optimizing fuel economy or the added torque a diesel engine provides.
I would not base it on your market / limited contact.

I know many people with LRs and RRs who most certainly would opt for diesel.  Diesel is available at plenty of stations in my market and because of the fuel efficiency gains, they would be visiting it less.
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Re: Land Rover says diesel power coming to North American lineup
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2015, 10:16:05 am »
Just wishing they would give us the Defender, in diesel guise of course.
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Re: Land Rover says diesel power coming to North American lineup
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2015, 10:32:49 am »
Quote from: paul246 on March 25, 2015, 10:16:05 am
Just wishing they would give us the Defender, in diesel guise of course.

The Defender has gone!    They could not manage to make it meet the latest Euro regulations for crash worthyness and pedestrian protection.   I am sure there will be a new version sometime.
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Re: Land Rover says diesel power coming to North American lineup
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2015, 10:40:16 am »
Quote from: tpl on March 25, 2015, 10:32:49 am
Quote from: paul246 on March 25, 2015, 10:16:05 am
Just wishing they would give us the Defender, in diesel guise of course.

The Defender has gone!    They could not manage to make it meet the latest Euro regulations for crash worthyness and pedestrian protection.   I am sure there will be a new version sometime.

I find this whole pedestrian protection thing a bit of a stretch. All vehicles impacts with pedestrians will lead to people losing. Impact prevention would be a better way to address this than body design.
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