Thread: Daft Question, why 130 Defender (used) over Mahindra pick up new?

Sorry forgot you want it for the farm hey!


Good carrying capacity, might even have it over a 130 single cab

Haha, that's how you load up a roof rack.

I think you can get a bit more on that, loads of room yet
Seriously though it does prove they are up to the job, no weak soft roader could cope with that abuse. The reality is cars in India take that sort of overloading daily so they need to be tough.
There was a multi agency exercise (I am an Urban fire fighter) and a guy from the SES had a 4 door 130, I joked with him that could someone distract him while I err borrowed it. Good luck with that one he replied.. He knows I have been looking for ages and he has his eye out too for me, but no luck so far.
The Mahindra yes uncool, but it does look like another option. I was thinking about tracking down a low km (very low if possible) 4 door ute with aluminium tray and bullbar. The tray is quite big, similar to a Defender and what ever the book says I dont think carrying capacity is a problem not that I would exceed what it said in the book I have a good mate who has a fabrication company so I thought about a decent aluminium canopy if I went this way.
Clearance is not bad, but it can be lifted a bit, but diff lock and side steps come as standard which is a big bonus. In India people are getting 400,000km out of them and I have read numerous reports of 250,000km and still going strong with no or minor issues.
For me 250,000km will be 15 years at least as I will be driving my Defender too so more likely 25 years, I think I will be fed up of curry jokes well before then.
Am I nuts or have I got sunstroke or something? Maybe it is too long since I went out for a curry and a good hot curry will flush out this nuts plan, if it doesnt it will for sure flush out something
Chris

Originally Posted by cafe latte

I think you can get a bit more on that, loads of room yet
Seriously though it does prove they are up to the job, no weak soft roader could cope with that abuse. The reality is cars in India take that sort of overloading daily so they need to be tough.
There was a multi agency exercise (I am an Urban fire fighter) and a guy from the SES had a 4 door 130, I joked with him that could someone distract him while I err borrowed it. Good luck with that one he replied.. He knows I have been looking for ages and he has his eye out too for me, but no luck so far.
The Mahindra yes uncool, but it does look like another option. I was thinking about tracking down a low km (very low if possible) 4 door ute with aluminium tray and bullbar. The tray is quite big, similar to a Defender and what ever the book says I dont think carrying capacity is a problem not that I would exceed what it said in the book I have a good mate who has a fabrication company so I thought about a decent aluminium canopy if I went this way.
Clearance is not bad, but it can be lifted a bit, but diff lock and side steps come as standard which is a big bonus. In India people are getting 400,000km out of them and I have read numerous reports of 250,000km and still going strong with no or minor issues.
For me 250,000km will be 15 years at least as I will be driving my Defender too so more likely 25 years, I think I will be fed up of curry jokes well before then.
Am I nuts or have I got sunstroke or something? Maybe it is too long since I went out for a curry and a good hot curry will flush out this nuts plan, if it doesnt it will for sure flush out something
Chris

They would have loaded up a toyota camry the same way, that's how people get around in India. They just stick as many people or objects on the roof as possible without even a thought about the amount of load the vehicle can take, its too much when it tips the car or the suspension bottoms out.