[b]A four wheel drive vehicle had its "off road" capabilities tested when it was apparently left in a Dartmoor car park with the hand brake off.[/b]

[img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44940000/jpg/_44940141_dartmoor_landrover_226_282.jpg[/img]

[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7570655.stm"]Opps![/url]



The Bad News? ....

[i]"Devon and Cornwall Police said the car was successfully recovered"[/i]

Something at the back of my mind was saying there was a recall on NF handbrakes. When I checked, there it was:

[url="http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/apps/recalls/searches/expand.asp?uniqueID=C5AF6053609812CE80256BB900268C94"]http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/apps/recalls/s...0256BB900268C94[/url]

......I wonder

.....and if they were trying to get rid of it, they'll have to do better than that. In the true spirit of LR it will be like a bad penny.

It's the right age LR, looking at the pic (they fuzzed the plate )

When did they start making LRs with a handbrake?

Wollaston uses a brick.

They'll have heaters next.

[quote name='anchorman' post='787868' date='Aug 21 2008, 12:00 AM']When did they start making LRs with a handbrake?

Wollaston uses a brick.

[b]They'll have heaters next.[/b][/quote]

with an independant power supply so the occupants can stay warm while waiting for AA/RAC?

I'd off let it rot at the bottom. ..Could have saved other more interesting cars from hitting the bog at the bottom....

[quote name='chatman' post='788244' date='Aug 21 2008, 06:32 PM']I'd off let it rot at the bottom. [/quote]

Oh no! .......That would be unfair to all the rabbit's and newt's and all the other wildlife, that would have to look at that pile of ****, while it slowly rotted away!