Some of you may know that many years ago the Santana company in Spain began assembling CKD Land Rovers for the spanish market, and eventually manufactured components themselves until they had 100% local manufacture.

We can thank them for designing the LT85 (The strongest Land Rover 5 speed ever), designing the first parabolic leaf springs for Land Rovers, The strongest series overdrive (which never really was sold outside Spain) and 3.4L 6 cylinder versions of the rugged 2.25 Petrol and 2.25 Diesel (which also unfortunately never made it out of Spain).

Well I have come across a site of the Austrian Santana dealer, which contains some history info and detailed pictures and specs of the current Santana - the PS-10 - it is basically a D110 with leaf springs (Santana never switched to coils).

Unfortunately the text is in German - but pictures are multilingual :D

History
http://www.allrad-christ.com/santana_firma.htm

Pictures of the PS-10
http://www.allrad-christ.com/santana_ps10_5sitzig.htm

Detailed specs
http://www.allrad-christ.com/santana_daten.htm

129 views but no replies, must be some interest...

For those who prefer english, here is a UK Santana dealer (seems a bit strange selling santana's in the UK) - so the specs are in english.

http://www.brucehopkins.co.uk/santana_4x4.htm

Interesting thing is, that Santana still use the LT85, which is much stronger than the R380. Would be interesting how much the boxes cost new...

I talked to Ian at Ashcroft's ....last month (?) while looking for LT95 bits.

http://www.ashcroft-transmissions.co.uk/

Ian said that they do the 85, but I didn't pursue the topic.

KAA