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Feds Confiscate 40 Land Rovers Over VIN Controversy: Claiming they are actually newer vehicles
The Newspaper - A Journal of the Politics of Driving ^ | August 1, 2014

Posted on 08/05/2014 3:09:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More here (and not as biased):

http://blog.caranddriver.com/exclusive-feds-declare-war-on-black-market-land-rover-defenders/


21 posted on 08/05/2014 4:56:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Focault's Pendulum

Uh...

Those are not the same model.

The classic-looking one is a Land Rover Defender, not sold in the US. The other one is a Range Rover Sport, which can be had with a 500 horsepower engine.


22 posted on 08/05/2014 4:59:17 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto
Those are not the same model.

Didn't mean to imply they were. They were just used to show the difference in styling.

23 posted on 08/05/2014 5:06:27 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Be that as it may when did we start sending storm troopers to settle DOT standard violations???
This is pure insanity and someone is going to end up getting killed.


24 posted on 08/05/2014 5:09:29 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American.ad Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like payback for some offense against the Obama administration.
25 posted on 08/05/2014 5:12:51 AM PDT by mware
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To: Focault's Pendulum
If you do an image search for a 2007 Defender, you'll see that it is substantially the same vehicle as the '84 example.

If anyone really wants one of these Land Rovers, just wait a bit. It's the UN's favored Jeep/Hummer type vehicle. Eventually they'll bring a bunch of them here, painted white with piles of blue helmets in the back.

26 posted on 08/05/2014 5:13:40 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Focault's Pendulum

One of the reasons for the Fed’s action is that Defender styling hasn’t changed.

http://www.landrover.co.uk/vehicles/defender/index.html


27 posted on 08/05/2014 5:18:53 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: BobL

They usually don’t need much help.


28 posted on 08/05/2014 5:22:19 AM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: sakic

maybe a gop donor ?


29 posted on 08/05/2014 5:37:45 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: sakic

Wouldn’t these vehicles actually keep running following an EMP attack?

(I think the feds want to hinder/prevent citizen movement when martial law is declared after _______ “emergency” event.)


30 posted on 08/05/2014 5:53:59 AM PDT by Mrs.Z
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What in the world is homeland security having to do with vehicle confescations?


31 posted on 08/05/2014 6:08:58 AM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: Godzilla

Their writ is just about everything these days.


32 posted on 08/05/2014 6:15:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s amazing, and telling, that the fedgov is on top of these 40 vehicles while the border patrol is practically non-existent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=765yFl3x8sc


33 posted on 08/05/2014 6:17:24 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“the vehicle color does not match”

That racist!

34 posted on 08/05/2014 6:19:46 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I feel safer already.

The government will launder them and sell them at auction. The cash will go for Obama’s new golf clubs.


35 posted on 08/05/2014 6:30:48 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Charles Martel

“Eventually they’ll bring a bunch of them here, painted white with piles of blue helmets in the back. “

Yeah, but who wants one shot full of holes?


36 posted on 08/05/2014 6:40:49 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Godzilla

My question also, however Homeland Security involves itself in many things that I think they have no business in.


37 posted on 08/05/2014 6:56:33 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: PLMerite

Bondo conceals a multitude of sins. Just avoid shooting out the glass - that’s tough to replace on this side of the Atlantic.


38 posted on 08/05/2014 7:10:34 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: PLMerite

Interior Color Option: “UN Peacekeeper reddish brown (mottled)”.


39 posted on 08/05/2014 7:12:05 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Godzilla

It would be fitting if the Storm Troopers were arrested and imprisoned. Food to be provided to those who cough up the names of the people who gave them the orders. Keep going up the management tree until it arrives at ... ... Lois Lerner perhaps. Then throw The Originator, whoever it was, in jail for ever.


40 posted on 08/05/2014 8:26:34 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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