Thread: Objectively - which is best? Stage 1 vs County vs Defender

Originally Posted by PAT303

Can you beat my Tdi Wagoo?,pretender hey,where have you been and what have you done?. Pat

hahaha wrong person to call out Pat. While I do enjoy your contribution and experinces here, I believe Wagoo to be a bit more realistic shall we say with the LR marque....

And you know that I have/had a tdi...but would still vote for the Isuzu 110 county if all are in stock form. All have their pros and cons but the 110 County would seem the one with the least amount of issues to sort like disc brakes.

But if I could have anything in new stock form it would be a 77 2 door Range Rover...

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I want to get one of the army landies when they sell them off - SWMBO even agrees

do these count? I dont actually know which model they are but I will get one

Good call Blitz, they are 3.9 Isuzu'd engined lt95 4 speed, sals rear, rover front. AEU2522 cv's, gal chassis.

Im not sure about difflocks, but I think the vehicles that do have them, they are borg warner. The Thomas pto which is/was an upgraded version of what they sold to civi's.

cheers,
Serg

I owned a S3 stg 1 3.9D and all I could fault was the transfer box.It needed the upgrades that the latter boxes had.I put OME suspension on mine and it made a much better vehicle off road.

Originally Posted by uninformed

hahaha wrong person to call out Pat. While I do enjoy your contribution and experinces here, I believe Wagoo to be a bit more realistic shall we say with the LR marque....

And you know that I have/had a tdi...but would still vote for the Isuzu 110 county if all are in stock form. All have their pros and cons but the 110 County would seem the one with the least amount of issues to sort like disc brakes.

But if I could have anything in new stock form it would be a 77 2 door Range Rover...

I know where your coming from serg but to say Tdi's or Td5's can't do what an Isuzu can do is taking it a bit too far.The county is a good machine but the world moves on,going by the rubbish around today it might not go where we want it to but thats the way it is. Pat

Forgot to add that if I ever get a decent shed I'm going to retore a late 70's RRC,The best stock 4WD ever made. Pat

oh I agree. My only beef with LR is the removal of things/material in places that have made it worse...they should have left well enough alone. With regards to the engine, the new tech is great....I just wish at a greater displacement.

If you do the $ conversion a 1985 Isuzu County would cost at least $80,000 in today's terms and for all the very good reasons outlined in this thread.

Today you couldn't justify that price for such a "primitive" vehicle...Toyota are struggling with their version at that price.

The "pretenders" now can only be built to a lower price point.