Thread: Can I hire a Defender in Germany?

Defender 90: Geländewagen mit Anhängekupplung (AHK) bis 3500kg

However, you may be disappointed as it is very hard to find a non-sealed road in Germany. Let alone somewhere you can legally drive offroad.

IMHO you would be better off hiring something that can do a decent speed on the autobahn.

The beer will be with it regardless.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Defender 90: Geländewagen mit Anhängekupplung (AHK) bis 3500kg

However, you may be disappointed as it is very hard to find a non-sealed road in Germany. Let alone somewhere you can legally drive offroad.

IMHO you would be better off hiring something that can do a decent speed on the autobahn.

Thanks Isuzurover - the autobahn is one road that, believe it or not, I'm not overly interested in driving myself. Happy to be a passenger, but the days of me driving/riding at speeds >180km/h are long behind me....for us, it's about the trip to where we're going rather than how fast we can get there ��
Thanks for the link - now to contact them and see if they have options to drive outside of Germany...

Originally Posted by Dougal

The beer will be with it regardless.

Indeed it will - and Oktoberfest will be in full swing soon after we get there...��

Originally Posted by OLD

Thanks Isuzurover - the autobahn is one road that, believe it or not, I'm not overly interested in driving myself. Happy to be a passenger, but the days of me driving/riding at speeds >180km/h are long behind me....for us, it's about the trip to where we're going rather than how fast we can get there ��
Thanks for the link - now to contact them and see if they have options to drive outside of Germany...

Fair enough, but if you only have 2 weeks as you say, and don't want to drive on the autobahn, then I don't know how much of europe you will get to see.

We drove from the German border to Paris once, staying off the (French) autobahns the whole way, and it took us the best part of a week. Certainly had a good time and saw a lot though.

The German autobahns are free (unlike the French). Also, most are only 2 lane each way, with the trucks and cars towing trailers speed limited to 80 km/h in the slow lane. So the cars in the fast lane are doing anything between 80 and the top speed of the car...

Braunschweig (where the hire defenders in the link are) to the swiss border is a 7 hr drive on the autobahn the whole way...

A couple of year ago we came across Hans Ruthe in Bolivia, we were driving our then Puma (Dearly Departed) and he rocked up with half a dozen that he was leading on a promotional trip, he works for Land Rover Germany and was very very helpful to us. He may not be in a position to rent you one but he should be able to tell you where. h.ruthe@landrover-experience.de

Forget the Autobahn and huge distances, with two weeks you could do a loop around south Germany, Switzerland, Austria - by shortest route on all the little byways!

I did it in a 200tdi with a chinese sat nav. We asked our often ridiculed sat nav to take us from Zurich to Hohenschwangau near Füssen (chitty bang bang castle) on the shortest route. And I tell you, some of the roads and scenery it took us along were just incredible.

It was a vision in super HD hyper color. I've never seen the grass so green, they have the healthiest cows you will ever see. We went through countless little villages each one with a pub that served hash browns, sausages and beer. We were taken down tiny little country roads , there was no traffic and it seemed that everyone lived in an idyllic little solar powered house with blooming pot plants on the window ledge. At Hohenschwangau I went for a swim in a lake full of Evian water so still it perfectly mirrored the sky and mountains.

We were around there in August without having planned much but thanks to perfect weather, our fearless chinese sat nav and our trusty 200tdi defender it all just came together. Most enjoyable driving section of our Euro tour - we covered around 20 countries!

Originally Posted by Carlos

A couple of year ago we came across Hans Ruthe in Bolivia, we were driving our then Puma (Dearly Departed) and he rocked up with half a dozen that he was leading on a promotional trip, he works for Land Rover Germany and was very very helpful to us. He may not be in a position to rent you one but he should be able to tell you where. h.ruthe@landrover-experience.de

Thanks Carlos - will certainly be contacting Hans. I'm hoping that his English is better than my German...

Regards

Martin