RE: Kahn 'Flying Huntsman' announced

[andyps]

deedah said:

Never mind the engine swap, the biggest thing here is the widening of the whole vehicle. Is this a genuine sideways stretch or just a body widening using more screw-on plastic body panels? Don't let the 3 wipers confuse you, this is an old Land Rover mod which has been around for years.

Will it actually be 6x6, there's no direct mention of this is the press blurb. 6x6 Defenders have been made in the past and it's not a straightforward job, especially with the rear axles so close together.

Lastly has anyone told Kahn that the Defender goes out of production at the end of this year?

Based on the photos posted earlier it looks like a wider bodyshell on the standard chassis (looks the pictures of the rear and the body seems to go down over the end of the rear cross-member. I may be completely wrong and happy to be corrected. The axles don't look to be changed so presumably spacers/offset changes - that'll be great for the wheel bearing life!

[Atmospheric]

Galsia said:

Ah Kahn, tarting up cars for scum with money.

Tartingup + "Scum"(as you put it) = Healthy Profit.

I always find Kahn threads strange in their viritol.

Don't like it? Cool. Looks st? Fine. But you can't argue with what he is trying to do.

I get the feeling he has done more for the UK in terms of promoting the British automotive aftermarket business that many other automotive businesses held in high regard by some PHers.

I'm not a fan of most of his designs, but some are OK - but one day I feel he will get something very right. Seems to be a forward thinking and innovative businessman, who is a petrolhead.

Just a thought.

[IrishAsal]

Testing?

I'm confident they are bang on track with the variables that matter...

Will rich people with more money than sense buy this thing? YES.

[Prof Prolapse]

Atmospheric said:

I get the feeling he has done more for the UK in terms of promoting the British automotive aftermarket business that many other automotive businesses held in high regard by some PHers.

I'm not a fan of most of his designs, but some are OK - but one day I feel he will get something very right. Seems to be a forward thinking and innovative businessman, who is a petrolhead.

Just a thought.

Personally I think "Kahn" has done as much for the British automotive industry as Paul Gadd as done for pop music.

But if you wanna be in his gang that's fine.

[Atmospheric]

Prof Prolapse said:

Atmospheric said:

I get the feeling he has done more for the UK in terms of promoting the British automotive aftermarket business that many other automotive businesses held in high regard by some PHers.

I'm not a fan of most of his designs, but some are OK - but one day I feel he will get something very right. Seems to be a forward thinking and innovative businessman, who is a petrolhead.

Just a thought.

Personally I think "Kahn" has done as much for the British automotive industry as Paul Gadd as done for pop music.

But if you wanna be in his gang that's fine.

Childish really. All that talk of gangs and stuff, don't you think? Note I said "aftermarket".

[jamespink]

vikingaero said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

vikingaero said:

6x6 are so 2014.

so 70's you mean

Isn't that a 6x2 - 6 wheels, 2 driven? The Khan 6x6 is 6 wheels, all 6 driven.

Oh, that makes it all OK then... Seriously, how stupid is this? It's just another custom house jumping on the silly "more is better" band wagon, no more credible than West Coast Customs playing with a rapper's car. Utterly pointless Tonka toy. Come to think of it, built for the same target audience...

[robemcdonald]

BOBTEE said:

What about a prop between the two axles?

We have a winner. So 6 x 4 then?

[Prof Prolapse]

Atmospheric said:

Prof Prolapse said:

Atmospheric said:

I get the feeling he has done more for the UK in terms of promoting the British automotive aftermarket business that many other automotive businesses held in high regard by some PHers.

I'm not a fan of most of his designs, but some are OK - but one day I feel he will get something very right. Seems to be a forward thinking and innovative businessman, who is a petrolhead.

Just a thought.

Personally I think "Kahn" has done as much for the British automotive industry as Paul Gadd as done for pop music.

But if you wanna be in his gang that's fine.

Childish really. All that talk of gangs and stuff, don't you think? Note I said "aftermarket".

I thought it was funny personally.

I also don't think "aftermarket" actually caveats against what I said, I certainly stand by it. It is an abortion of a vehicle, and I cannot disagree more with anyone who says this man is a car enthusiast given he spends his days designing things to ruin them. Inside a warehouse filled with people who look like they should be the discovery program called "the garage", he's there hacking away at things real engineers pain-stakingly designed. Then rolling them in Swarovski crystals.

Frankly if you own one of these you should have your DSS payments stopped, your Burberry cap set on fire, then be sterilised. With rusty garden sheers. It's a piece of scrap which pushes no frontier except by which to demonstrate the incredible stupidity of people regarding their adoration of brands, and how expendable income in no way correlates with intelligence or class.

Finding idiots to sell crap to under the guise of producing a brand, doesn't make you an entrepreneur, it's been done a million times before, it makes you an oxygen thief. If this is the way of the industry, or subdivisions of it are heading, count me out. I'd rather be seen getting out of a sheep.

[unsprung]

Has the nose been elongated purely for aesthetics?

The LS series of V8s will fit under the bonnet of an OEM Defender (albeit with aftermarket mounting kit).

[jhonn]

Prof Prolapse said:

I thought it was funny personally.

I also don't think "aftermarket" actually caveats against what I said, I certainly stand by it. It is an abortion of a vehicle, and I cannot disagree more with anyone who says this man is a car enthusiast given he spends his days designing things to ruin them. Inside a warehouse filled with people who look like they should be the discovery program called "the garage", he's there hacking away at things real engineers pain-stakingly designed. Then rolling them in Swarovski crystals.

Frankly if you own one of these you should have your DSS payments stopped, your Burberry cap set on fire, then be sterilised. With rusty garden sheers. It's a piece of scrap which pushes no frontier except by which to demonstrate the incredible stupidity of people regarding their adoration of brands, and how expendable income in no way correlates with intelligence or class.

Finding idiots to sell crap to under the guise of producing a brand, doesn't make you an entrepreneur, it's been done a million times before, it makes you an oxygen thief. If this is the way of the industry, or subdivisions of it are heading, count me out. I'd rather be seen getting out of a sheep.

Now... I thought THAT was funny; speak your mind, why don't you.

[ianrb]

Dave Hedgehog said:

Civpilot said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

i forget a chap up the road from me has a 6 wheeled CX

I find that effortlessly stupid... and amazingly cool because of it.

i believe a small fleet of them where built for a french newspaper to transport newspapers with

The story I remember is that they were created for the EU, or whatever it was called back then, to ferry documents between its many buildings. Obviously a pre-internet thing.

[dandare]

Prof Prolapse said:

blah, blah....harsh words, etc.

I'd rather be seen getting out of a sheep.

Is that how you received your name?

[AndrewEH1]

ianrb said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

Civpilot said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

i forget a chap up the road from me has a 6 wheeled CX

I find that effortlessly stupid... and amazingly cool because of it.

i believe a small fleet of them where built for a french newspaper to transport newspapers with

The story I remember is that they were created for the EU, or whatever it was called back then, to ferry documents between its many buildings. Obviously a pre-internet thing.

Newspapers apparently...

www.joyofcx.co.uk

[J4CKO]

Kahn RR's seem Second only to "Gemballa" Cayennes which seem to be styled based on a blend of Batmans codpiece and some kind of bottom feeding fish found in the deeper bits of the Atlantic, where it is thankfully dark. Usually found on Ebay, inexplicably for 100 grand or more for a 2004 model, otherwise worth ten grand unruined.

In fact, do the manufacturers own these firms and make the worst ones to make the base product look quite self effacing and subtle ?

[oldtimer2]

AndrewEH1 said:

ianrb said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

Civpilot said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

i forget a chap up the road from me has a 6 wheeled CX

I find that effortlessly stupid... and amazingly cool because of it.

i believe a small fleet of them where built for a french newspaper to transport newspapers with

The story I remember is that they were created for the EU, or whatever it was called back then, to ferry documents between its many buildings. Obviously a pre-internet thing.

Newspapers apparently...

www.joyofcx.co.uk

IIRC the FT used a vehicle like this to ship early morning deliveries to Paris. Presumably the extra axle would have improved the carrying capacity.

[oldtimer2]

I think that the Defender Bigfoot, developed by Land Rover SVO for the latest James Bond film and featured on these pages a week or two back, would be a more interesting and appealing evolution of the product.

[ianrb]

oldtimer2 said:

AndrewEH1 said:

ianrb said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

Civpilot said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

i forget a chap up the road from me has a 6 wheeled CX

I find that effortlessly stupid... and amazingly cool because of it.

i believe a small fleet of them where built for a french newspaper to transport newspapers with

The story I remember is that they were created for the EU, or whatever it was called back then, to ferry documents between its many buildings. Obviously a pre-internet thing.

Newspapers apparently...

www.joyofcx.co.uk

IIRC the FT used a vehicle like this to ship early morning deliveries to Paris. Presumably the extra axle would have improved the carrying capacity.

It's a Tissier conversion http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/cars-you-didnt-kn... used for lots of things.

[McWigglebum4th]

grumble grumble grumble

this is a proper flying huntsman



grumble grumble

plastic tat

grumble grumble

[billywhizzzzzz]

Jesus that's horrible. Vile, vile, vile.

[hairyben]

I wasn't aware khan did anything more than supergloo plastic tatt to chavvy rangerovers, is proper coachbuilding something they've done for long?