Meanwhile in the /k/ar garage....

>>64018848 (OP)
You may not like it, but this is peak British engineering.

>>64018848 (OP)
I need to make 10mm holes into this sheet metal part ... someone please hand me the right tool for that.

>>64020549
p320 xten

>>64018848 (OP)
Does this mean we're motorized or mechanized infantry?

>>64018848 (OP)
Looking at shit like Land Rover, Leyland, Thornycroft, etc. got me convinced that Cold-War Britain was just the westernmost Eastern-Bloc country.

For me, it's brand new Kias

>>64020725
Getting bombed during WW2, losing a non insignificant chunk of their working class and educated men to the war and then all their colonies right afterwards really sent the UK headfirst down a long steep staircase throughout the late 20th century.

We think the 70s were bad in America, UK hit the 70s AND 80s like a brick wall having still not really recovered from the 40s yet.
They could have possibly sort of saved it in the 1990/2000s, but their entire method of government was made up exclusively by upperclass twits with zero real world knowledge or experience in absolute denial of how tight a spot their country was in. The opportunity was thoroughly fucked and now they are destined to get poorer over time.

I know it's a meme that being born in India is drawing the human short straw, but being born a Bong is like that in the anglosphere. Unless you happen to be in the upper class and have sense to bail while you can, it's just misery.

For me, it's the MGMC

>>64021117
Infantry broom. The aircraft above would have been mostly friendly ground attack being called in by FACs.

>>64021036
Literally absurd post. Bong got fucked cuz WW2 bankrupted them. They mobilized to a degree that no one else did - not even the Russians. Then in the 50's and 60's and 70's they got fucked over by being run by giga-libshits (literal socialists) and organized labor.

Britains disorder is not the fault of the toffs, as easy a target as they may be, it's the fault of a voting block comprised of a resentful middle-class and labor. When the toffs ran the show, the UK was a global empire.

>>64020654
Motorized, mechanized entails having the vehicle fight alongside you instead of just being an armed transport.

>>64018848 (OP)
Redpill me on these. Are they absolute turds that should be avoided at all costs? I NEED a money pit that only wastes my time and energy and a girlfriend is off the table right now.

>>64018848 (OP)
>Meanwhile in the /k/ar garage....

I had a 1960s unimog for a few years but a U1300 would be so much better.

>>64021897
Just get a Jeep Wrangler if you want a meme car with a huge third party pool of dumb shit you can put on it... Unless your live in Bongistan.

>>64023079
Jeeps are gay and I want milsurp, maybe humvee but then I don’t get to stand out as a heccin special snowflake that has Euroslop. Yes I know parts will be hard to get and therefore expensive if one already imported can be found for sale. Amerishart btw

>>64021897
They are strong and reliable 4x4s that will go basically anywhere in the right configuration. Don't expect frills though.

>>64020735
Looks like M37 after month of noodles

Yongshi is cute, but its build quality probably makes British Leyland look like Toyota.

Buongiorno, /k/, Iamma normal automobile transporting some gabagool for my goomar.

>>64023887
It was designed in cooperation with Chrysler Jeep, so maybe even worse than that.

>>64021574
There's a lot of dakka on that truck. Could go either way.

>>64022168
Neat. There's a guy in my town who has a unimog, a ww2 era rover, and some sort of combloc 8x8 truck he takes to the local car meetups.

Someone raped my fucking Land Cruiser

>>64023899
prototype tesla

>>64021369
>someone not automatically blaming Thatcher
The modern Brit is somehow even more clueless about history and politics than the most hopeless American, and thats impressive. For all the dickriding people like to do about unions they forget the nasty habit they have of becoming leftist pawns and eventually asking for too much. Strikes and demonstrations were so bad in the UK that the military had to get involved in stopping them. Combined with outright INSANE social spending, INSANE immigration policies and draconian speech and firearms/self defense laws and the only way I see Britain surviving is by bloody civil war.

>>64024322
Story?

>>64024357
There be Troubles ahead for the UK

>>64024322
It consented

>>64024322
Someone as in singular?

>>64024357
I'm not a bong hence I am capable of making a dispassionate assessment. Thatcher made mistakes like any leader, but what she did do I buy another two generations worth of time for the yookay. Regrettably, they seem to have squandered that time.

I've been watching Clarkson's Farm. That show perfectly encapsulates everything holding the nation back.
>No you can run an enterprise and create 30+ jobs because you're rich and need the money
>You want to sell a potato? Okay get ur potatoe loicence, your soil certification, your potatoe truck loicence and register every potatoe with the potatoe police. Also gunna need a environmental assessment. Doesn't matter tho cuz we're importing polish potatoes for half the price cuz poles don't need to do any of that.

>>64021897
Basically, STAY AWAY.

Original LR Defenders are very simple and generally rugged, but have really mixed build quality and are getting old at this point. They are almost exclusively fashion accessories for extremely rich men who pretend to go outside, so even one in non running condition is firmly in BAT/"I know what I got" status. You will also be waging eBay bidding wars over every spare nut, bolt and spring in that thing with no guarantees that it'll work because they were made for decades with hundreds of undocumented on the fly design changes.

A modern modern LR, such as a Discovery is going to be completely worthless as a vehicle from bumper to hitch. Gone is the simplicity, replaced with faux-luxury features, all of which are guaranteed to be broken and they always take 2-5 critical things with them when they go. Build quality was horrifying. Remember all those ads where they were bushwhacking through the jungles in Africa? They did that by bringing in a dozen identically painted Rovers with no miles and going in circles around a mud hole right outside the airport for photo ops. Almost all of those were completely fucked within a few hours of doing shit that a rusty Toyota driven by tribesmen who think motor oil is blood of the machine spirit can do for 45 years.

The newer iterations are purely a LARP vehicle for housewives married to morons with more new money than sense. All they do is waste gas and space picking their kids up from school and those things are still blowing engines/transmissions/wiring harnesses after 2-5 years/15000 miles doing ~2 mile trips on paved roads with maybe a little rain.

Like there are some OK family cars made in America/UK/EU but for real off-roading in places where breaking down can kill you either you are driving Japanese or you have a death wish.

>>64021897
iirc there was some sort of saying from Africa or Australia that goes something along the lines of
"The Land Rover will take you anywhere, the Land Cruiser will also get you back"

>>64021897
>>64025164
Ineos Granadier for $70k is the best you can do these days. And make no mistake, it's probably the best over landing vehicle in the world. However it's $70k. I could maybe afford one, but I could never justify it as it would be a pavement princess for 90% of it's life and it's very poorly optimized for daily driving and the number of low-milage ones sold for second hand confirm it. But I need to emphasize that it's a fucking beast and it perfectly captures the old school defender aesthetics.

Maybe one day.

>>64025178
New land cruisers are kinda shit tho. In the US a 4x4 1500 truck will be more durable and go further, although they are big and fat so you'll constantly be dealing with that.

>>64025182
Grenadier also uses a BMW engine and transmission so way more reliable than any landie, new models or the old ones when they were "new".

I have no idea why landrover won't shit out a proper off-road vehicle. The market is screaming for them, if some random billionair can corner the market at $70k imagine the money if you came in with a proper $50k offering.

>>64025185
I'm sure that quote was more from the era of the FJ40s.
Last I heard, the Land Cruiser 200s still have a pretty good reputation.

>>64025201
I'm talking about the latest batch. They are road optimized.

>>64021117
Fuck I want to put one of those on a barge and shred a floating town with it.

>>64024357
Do you mean "bloody" in the British sense or in the charnel sense? Or is this an unintentional double entendre?

there was a shoop thread a long time ago with this as a topic. I don't have it but I hope someone does

>>64025025
Were you a part of it?

>>64025200
>the market is screaming for them
It isn't. The market segment that can pay for a new car wants something plush to ride to the grocery store. Even Ferrari is building a lifted station wagon in order to survive.

>>64025182
>Ineos Grenadier
I know more about the cycling team they've sponsored than the car, honestly. Is it actually in mass production, or is it just another British shed car like TVR?

>>64023079
Wranglers are hot Fiat garbage for duck fucking faggots

>>64021117
The towed mount is stupider and thus more /k/

I'm about to buy my wife pic related. They're retardedly overpriced but the resale value is so good I feel slightly less dumb buying one

>>64018848 (OP)
Off topic, back to >>>/o/ newfag, or you could kys that would be better desu

>>64025095
I seem to remember Clarkson bitching about how stupid it was that the government had a rule about not storing hay in the same shed as nitrate fertilizer because "it's not like a fire is just going to start for no reason", when in fact, grain silos do sometimes spontaneously turn into fuel-air bombs and that's without having literal explosives stored inside them.

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>>64027493
>>64027527
We can go even more stupider.

>>64018848 (OP)
>wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

>>64018848 (OP)

>>64027268
>Is it actually in mass production, or is it just another British shed car like TVR?
They're mass produced. Made at an old Mercedes factory. Ineos is a legitimate company worth more than most car companies. The issue in the US is we have bullshit dealer laws so they have to support a goofy ass patchwork dealer network. The ecu and stuff is bmw so a local BMW dealer should be good to go to service it and as a richfag you're probably good at getting what you want.

The grenadier has a lot of kiss principles applied to it that can only come from the CEO having it as his pet project and keeping the retards away from making decisions. It's basically an overbuilt 1/2 ton pickup with one of BMWs most reliable engines. Really couldn't ask for much more for what it's intended to do.

>>64027506
Buy an old one if possible. Don’t trust that turbo 4cylinder long term

>>64018848 (OP)

>>64024322
>>64027137
>calls it "fucking Land Cruiser"
>is surprised when people fuck it
You have no one to blame but yourself.

>>64028561
No thanks senpai, I'm not poor