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Land Rover 90 Defender 2.2TD 2015MY | eBay

Vintage and Prestige of Northampton ltd - Please call to arrange an appointment a test drive - Call us on +441604343635 or click here to find out more.

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[Mikey RV]

How much.

 

[CazPaul]

68 grand to drive the most uncomfortable vehicle ever

 

[Bluemooner]

Expensive (thought it was going to be a post about swingers)

 

[maison]

68 grand to drive the most uncomfortable vehicle ever

Not to mention unreliable.

To quote our Aussie friends……


“If you want to visit the outback, get a Land Rover……..

…….if you want to get back, get a Land Cruiser”.


Quote provided by my Land Rover fan S-I-L, owner of a G4.

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[Lenny HB]

Saying it's like brand new when it's been sitting around doing nothing for 7 years, that is not good for a vehicle.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Up by me in Thirsk is a company called TWISTED that bought the last bunch of Land Rovers. It then tarts them up and you can be paying £200,000 for the most uncomfortable vehicle ever produced. Check out their website.

Twisted, Custom Land Rover Defender and Suzuki Jimny

Defender and Jimny repairs, restoration and builds, we know how to make these iconic vehicles the best they can be. Our team’s obsession with restored and modified Land Rover Defender spans two decades.

www.twistedautomotive.com

 

[Northernraider]

If you want a good 4x4 then it has to be Japanese. Land rovers were truly shit after the original series and before the japs left them standing.

Toyota is king

 

[pagey]

Nah fiat panda with the 1000cc engine

 

[Southdowners]

Love it!

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[cliffanger]

Not to mention unreliable.

To quote our Aussie friends……


“If you want to visit the outback, get a Land Rover……..

…….if you want to get back, get a Land Cruiser”.


Quote provided by my Land Rover fan S-I-L, owner of a G4.

We heard the same quote, only it was the desert and not the outback!

It always made me laugh when the caravan and boat magazines always put Land Rover as the top towing car, and NEVER the Land Cruiser!

We had three Land Cruisers over the years, and towed boats and caravans - no problem at all - nothing ever went wrong with any of them. We had one Land Rover when we were young, and I absolutely hated it - a teeth rattling ride, and you needed an umbrella INSIDE the cab if it had been raining - the water collected in those ridiculous interior gulleys and showered you when you turned the corner!

 

[Scotch mist]

I had a Toyota Amazon for about 6 years , my Most loved car , only dislike was 16 mpg,
I didn’t do many miles so acceptable , you were king of the road in that thing

 

[jockaneezer]

I like the way they twist the fact it has no radio, no electric windows and no air con as selling points !

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Had a few Shoguns around 1999-2000 and they were good tow vehicles, bit thirsty though
Best one was a SWB 2.8 turbo converted to a van, lovely drive and use to pull our 23ft boat out from the water on sand easily.

 

[Rogerwyn]

If you want a good 4x4 then it has to be Japanese. Land rovers were truly shit after the original series and before the japs left them standing.

Toyota is king

I Agee with you that jap 4x4 are superior on the road having looked after a fleet of LR and jap crap on an opencast it was far easier to maintain the LR than the jap crap

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[John n Jinny]

Expensive (thought it was going to be a post about swingers)

I expected something about throwing keys in a bucket lol.

 

[Landy Andy]

Big money and it’s got the worst engine fitted to it. Ford Tdci. Yuck.

Mines now 16 years old, and two years ago had to fit a new battery. So unreliable these Defenders

They are old school engineering where you need servicing, listening to, and looking after. These are things that modern plastic drivers don’t understand. That’s why they are still going, and loved.

 

[pagey]

My son exported a 3 Ltr swb shogun to the Falklands when he was there it drunk more than he did but it was liked and was much desired there

 

[pagey]

I bought the series 3 safari from bt when I worked there it had a service record that was hard to believe but it was dear to run crap to drive but it had a presence would not want a other

 

[DerryW]

This is mine 31 years old and still going strong. although to be honest for the last 5 years, apart from the very odd excursion around the village and the annual trip to the garage for the MoT (as seen in the image) it sits in the garage. Covered less than 100miles in last 5 years. However, I can't see it ever being worth more than £3 -5k not that it's for sale. It's a good conversation piece when people spy it from the road if I happen to have the garage door up.

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[DerryW]

Sorry, 1990 H Reg so that makes it 32 years old.

Say what you will, I am yet to find any other road going vehicle that will go were a LR defender will go. Yes, they're uncomfortable, noisy, thirty, and comparable to a 1960's glorified tractor, but they still turn more heads than my modern LR Discovery.

Here's a couple of images when I did use it, not only on the public highways but also off-road green lanes, and 1 of it sitting in the garage where ot now spends its days. Time permitting, I try to make sure it's started every couple of months if not more.

 

[Swifter]

Sorry, 1990 H Reg so that makes it 32 years old.

Say what you will, I am yet to find any other road going vehicle that will go were a LR defender will go. Yes, they're uncomfortable, noisy, thirty, and comparable to a 1960's glorified tractor, but they still turn more heads than my modern LR Discovery.

Here's a couple of images when I did use it, not only on the public highways but also off-road green lanes, and 1 of it sitting in the garage where ot now spends its days. Time permitting, I try to make sure it's started every couple of months if not more.

That’s a real 4x4 . In deep snow or deep water I would be very confident driving that Vs a modern vehicle

 

[Northernraider]

Sorry, 1990 H Reg so that makes it 32 years old.

Say what you will, I am yet to find any other road going vehicle that will go were a LR defender will go. Yes, they're uncomfortable, noisy, thirty, and comparable to a 1960's glorified tractor, but they still turn more heads than my modern LR Discovery.

Here's a couple of images when I did use it, not only on the public highways but also off-road green lanes, and 1 of it sitting in the garage where ot now spends its days. Time permitting, I try to make sure it's started every couple of months if not more.

All I can say then us you have not looked very far

 

[bobnick]

Owned road and raced (and crashed a few) Range Rovers for decades in the mid east. Also a few road Land Crusers VXRs (Amazons here).
In the desert most weekends for 7/8 months of the year.
Of the two the Cruisers far far better screwed together.
HRH has a P300 S RR Velar now. 4 years old and 32k miles. Absolutley no issues with it...............and it's bloody comfortable.
Would i buy another, NO, why, they have gone far far daft expensive now.

 

[Landy Andy]

I can't see it ever being worth more than £3 -5k

I think, and would give you more than that for it now.
I had a man offer me 32 thousand for mine three weeks ago. Over twice what I paid for it. But like you, it’s not for sale.

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[Chris]

I used to have a Land Cruiser LC5 which I think was top of the range at the time.

It would pull anything and often pulled Defenders out of sand when they got stuck on the beach and that was with normal road tyres.

My wife still hasn’t forgiven me for changing it.

 

[bobnick]

One i bought earlier. 2012 New 4.4 twin turbo Autobiography. Don't remember having any serious issues with this one either.