SAF replacing Landrover with Ssangyong Rexton -Straits Time

• seancannot

  19 Apr 05, 14:08

  Those SAF driver will be having a goodtime liao!
• SBS9611D

  19 Apr 05, 14:11

  Wow, does that mean air-con comfort for Rexton drivers in future? If that's the case, that's great.
• iveco

  19 Apr 05, 14:18

  NPNT
• LH83

  20 Apr 05, 00:11

  Originally posted by iveco:

  NPNT

  Got picture... Read today's (20th April) newpaper... It's in there... Or do you even read newspapers at all? There was a preview in yesterday's (19th April) paper... You would have seen it too...
• iveco

  20 Apr 05, 13:31

  Originally posted by LH83:

  Got picture... Read today's (20th April) newpaper... It's in there... Or do you even read newspapers at all? There was a preview in yesterday's (19th April) paper... You would have seen it too...

  I'm not in Singapore at the moment. Furthermore, ST online charges people $$ just to read the news. I rather go for CNA instead, but then it had no news on the Rextons yet.
  
  Why SAF and Land Rover parted ways? Defender chassis no longer in production?
• seancannot

  20 Apr 05, 13:39

  Originally posted by SBS9611D:

  Wow, does that mean air-con comfort for Rexton drivers in future? If that's the case, that's great.

  Any way the current SAF new MAN 5 Tonner comes with air con.. my unit driver run the air con thru out the nite and sleep during field camp and the engine overheated!!
• LH83

  20 Apr 05, 21:09

  Originally posted by iveco:

  I'm not in Singapore at the moment. Furthermore, ST online charges people $$ just to read the news. I rather go for CNA instead, but then it had no news on the Rextons yet.
  
  Why SAF and Land Rover parted ways? Defender chassis no longer in production?

  Ok... My bad... Anyway, the SAF is considering a few models. Not that SAF and Land Rover parted ways, the Rovers are 20 yrs old liao... time for a change, and if they contract the vehicles out to private companies, they save a hell lot on maintenance costs. Then when they need the rovers, they'll request them back from the private companies. That's basically the gist of the report.
• AE86tofu

  23 Apr 05, 02:45

  seriously i find them very impractical....the land rovers suit best for carrying small stores....SUV just wont cut it...imagine tearing the chairs etc from dragging the stores out of the SUV....something which i dun think anyone wants 2 happen....land rover is more robust IMHO...and frm my experience
• cheeseabuser

  23 Apr 05, 02:47

  erm... its already on trial and out...
  
  saw it near safti last year at the army open house.. pretty neat.. includes the mounting boards for signal sets and antennas..
• LazerLordz

  23 Apr 05, 02:50

  Originally posted by AE86tofu:

  seriously i find them very impractical....the land rovers suit best for carrying small stores....SUV just wont cut it...imagine tearing the chairs etc from dragging the stores out of the SUV....something which i dun think anyone wants 2 happen....land rover is more robust IMHO...and frm my experience

  Will you go to war in a Rexton or a BMW X5?Not me..
  
  BN HQ staff in a Land Cruiser still seems acceptable to me..where has all the ocmmon sense gone in our SAF?
• Praetorian111

  23 Apr 05, 04:21

  Originally posted by AE86tofu:

  seriously i find them very impractical....the land rovers suit best for carrying small stores....SUV just wont cut it...imagine tearing the chairs etc from dragging the stores out of the SUV....something which i dun think anyone wants 2 happen....land rover is more robust IMHO...and frm my experience

  The person will have to sign extras for tearing the chair
• AE86tofu

  23 Apr 05, 04:41

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  Will you go to war in a Rexton or a BMW X5?Not me..
  
  BN HQ staff in a Land Cruiser still seems acceptable to me..where has all the ocmmon sense gone in our SAF?

  Got one land crusier in my camp liao...running on a diesel but has civilian plates...most prob on trial
• oxford mushroom

  23 Apr 05, 05:02

  Can fit stretcher inside the SUV?
• AE86tofu

  23 Apr 05, 12:57

  Originally posted by oxford mushroom:

  Can fit stretcher inside the SUV?

  of coz can lar.... the stretcher is collapsable one wad
• Manager433

  23 Apr 05, 13:09

  Originally posted by cheeseabuser:

  erm... its already on trial and out...
  
  saw it near safti last year at the army open house.. pretty neat.. includes the mounting boards for signal sets and antennas..

  PICTURES pls.
• iveco

  23 Apr 05, 17:51

  Originally posted by oxford mushroom:

  Can fit stretcher inside the SUV?

  Originally posted by AE86tofu:

  of coz can lar.... the stretcher is collapsable one wad

  No doubt the stretcher is foldable, but i think OM is talking about what if the stretcher has someone strapped to it.
  
  A side note, will the Rextons have Voith gearboxes that have buttons instead of a stick shift?
• LH83

  24 Apr 05, 00:56

  Might as well make SAF build their own... modeled after the Hummers... hehe... With better FC of course...