Small Sport-Ute to Lead Land Rover to Higher Ground

摘要

The CB40 small sport-utility vehicle Land Rover will put into production after the summer 1997 shutdown represents the biggest upheaval in the company's 50-year hisstory It will be the first steel unitary construction model by Land Rover, which tra-ditionally uses a hefty ladder frame chassis and alu-minum body panels. At the same time, CB40 will transform the company into a 200,000 unit-a-year producer by 1999 — four times the number it made a decade earlier.