Re: That Land Rover on Top Gear on Sunday

Jim wrote:

> I was watching Top Gear on Sunday and saw a Land Rover that was fully
> kitted out with stuff Ray Mears would love, it seemed to be something
> designed for expeditions or something, does anyone know if this kind of
> thing can be bought of the shelf from Land Rover or are they bespoke, it
> seems to be based around the Defender but I don't know much more then
> that, sorry.

It was an off-the-shelf D90 with a fairly complete offroad kit added. Figure
on it costing around £5k over and above the D90s cost to get this.

Items I spotted were:

Winch
Winch Bumper
Larger tyres
Expedition roofrack
Lotsa Lights
Waffleboards on the roofrack
Hi Lift
Tree wires
Towing Bridle fixed to the bumper
Some form of hook on the bumper (couldn't see)
Some ariel attached - I think it was CB but could have been 2m.

Not a real problem to build given the time - I'd figure on less than a week
to do yourself once the parts arrive.

P.

Being outside of the UK I only know of the Bowler Tomcat been presented in
last season's Top Gear.

If you need further information about those beasts I would suggest you check
about them here
http://www.bowler-offroad.com/

HTH
Take care
Pantelis

"Paul S. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Jim wrote:
>
> > I was watching Top Gear on Sunday and saw a Land Rover that was fully
> > kitted out with stuff Ray Mears would love, it seemed to be something
> > designed for expeditions or something, does anyone know if this kind of
> > thing can be bought of the shelf from Land Rover or are they bespoke, it
> > seems to be based around the Defender but I don't know much more then
> > that, sorry.
>
> It was an off-the-shelf D90 with a fairly complete offroad kit added.
Figure
> on it costing around £5k over and above the D90s cost to get this.
>
> Items I spotted were:
>
> Winch
> Winch Bumper
> Larger tyres
> Expedition roofrack
> Lotsa Lights
> Waffleboards on the roofrack
> Hi Lift
> Tree wires
> Towing Bridle fixed to the bumper
> Some form of hook on the bumper (couldn't see)
> Some ariel attached - I think it was CB but could have been 2m.
>
> Not a real problem to build given the time - I'd figure on less than a
week
> to do yourself once the parts arrive.
>
> P.