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Mahindra sold road legal Jeepalikes in the UK back in the 70s or 80s, many fitted with Peugeot diesel engines. It was a very very crude but cheap, vehicle even then and they didn't sell well, especially against the similarly priced but less crude Lada Niva(and that was an effort to steer in a straight line on the road, rather like it was with the transverse leaf sprung Ford's of the 50s) .Don't forget that by the 70s European cars generally were rack and pinion steered and often all round independently sprung so we were already used to good road manners albeit in strictly on road cars.