Thread: Facts on Disco vs Defender

I'm sure someone (or many people) will shoot this down, but I have spent 8 hours in my One Ten on the road today, plus another couple of hours making a track on a private property for the Local Landy Club... plenty of time to think.

It is very rare to see a Disco that is both exceptional for touring, and built up for tuff trips. It's always one or the other.
Plenty of Defenders do both though, often with just a tyre change, sometimes not even that. Some members of the LROC(S) have two sets of tyres, the Simex or similar for tuff trips and normal muddies or A/Ts for touring. My own County has done a fair few tuff trips and has punted me around NSW, QLD, Vic and Tasmania so far.

So if you don't know if you'll be touring or weekend warrioring, choose wisely, choose Defender

Originally Posted by isuzutoo-eh

I'm sure someone (or many people) will shoot this down, but I have spent 8 hours in my One Ten on the road today, plus another couple of hours making a track on a private property for the Local Landy Club... plenty of time to think.

It is very rare to see a Disco that is both exceptional for touring, and built up for tuff trips. It's always one or the other.
Plenty of Defenders do both though, often with just a tyre change, sometimes not even that. Some members of the LROC(S) have two sets of tyres, the Simex or similar for tuff trips and normal muddies or A/Ts for touring. My own County has done a fair few tuff trips and has punted me around NSW, QLD, Vic and Tasmania so far.

So if you don't know if you'll be touring or weekend warrioring, choose wisely, choose Defender

Been out making tracks for Khanafari have we

Originally Posted by isuzutoo-eh

I'm sure someone (or many people) will shoot this down, but I have spent 8 hours in my One Ten on the road today, plus another couple of hours making a track on a private property for the Local Landy Club... plenty of time to think.

It is very rare to see a Disco that is both exceptional for touring, and built up for tuff trips. It's always one or the other.
Plenty of Defenders do both though, often with just a tyre change, sometimes not even that. Some members of the LROC(S) have two sets of tyres, the Simex or similar for tuff trips and normal muddies or A/Ts for touring. My own County has done a fair few tuff trips and has punted me around NSW, QLD, Vic and Tasmania so far.

So if you don't know if you'll be touring or weekend warrioring, choose wisely, choose Defender

I dunno about that Mark, my D2 did well at both, as did Simons(Slunnie) didn't we??

Baz.

Originally Posted by LowRanger

Been out making tracks for Khanafari have we

Yep! Lots of digging the bullbar into the creek bed/bank and churning up the boghole. Need more clearance!
And Greg broke Jil...

Originally Posted by Redback

I dunno about that Mark, my D2 did well at both, as did Simons(Slunnie) didn't we??

Baz.

Does Simon use his for touring? I've only ever seen day trip reports.

Yeah, your D2, and Yorkies, went a fair way- there are always statistical outliers, though not sure they are quite as 'hard core' as say Simon's or even Terry's D1.

Originally Posted by joel0407

I'm going to make a brave comment here on a Land Rover forum. My choice would be between a Disco and a Land Cruiser 75 Series.

It's taken a long while for the Disco 2 to grow on me but I love it now and spend a far amount of time defending it with mates. It's got all the fruit and once you know how it all works it's not bad at all to keep it all going. It's got to be the most comfortable 4x4 going and doesnt give anything up in off road capabilty for the comfort.

The defender however, not that I have ever owned one, has all the usuall Land Rover quirks to get used to but has nothing more to offer than a 75 series Toyota. I mean it's rough, built like a tin box, leaks, noisy, all that kind of stuff. The defender doesnt get things done with finess, it uses toughness and force. I'm sorry but when it comes to toughness and force a 75 series Toyota will have it over a Land Rover. Next time you have a aluminium soft drink can and a steel baked bean tin, jump on them and bashe them around and see which one comes out the best.

I find that the Disco with it's ACE and traction control allow it to do better than most Toyotas and the Disco will do it with finess. With the few off road assistance the Disco has, I watch mates in there Toyotas take run ups and bounce up hills where I can drive up slowly in the Disco with the wheels walking through the undulations and the traction control taking care of things when wheels start to spin.

Happy Days.

Maybe you need to own one,or maybe you have never been out with one that has been driven,it is a 75 series that will need to use force not finess.I'll back my Defender against a 75 series,both in ability and in its ability to make it home again without breakingAnd I keep hearing all about how superior Discos are,but whenever something a little bit more difficult comes up,the Discos are conspicuous by their absence,or the ones that do come out,tend to have a lie down or like to go home on a flat bed

Oh, dear, as if it is not enough that we have Land rovers against Toyotas, Nissans etc, to infinitum, now we have discos against defenders. Get your hands off the gearstick, boys, & enjoy what you have. It's worthwhile remembering the first long drives in the bush were made by model T Fords, & we had a Morris ute that took us everywhere we wanted to go. We love our vehicles, nothing wrong with that. But there's room for all. Even Toyotas. Bob

Originally Posted by bob10

Oh, dear, as if it is not enough that we have Land rovers against Toyotas, Nissans etc, to infinitum, now we have discos against defenders. Get your hands off the gearstick, boys, & enjoy what you have. It's worthwhile remembering the first long drives in the bush were made by model T Fords, & we had a Morris ute that took us everywhere we wanted to go. We love our vehicles, nothing wrong with that. But there's room for all. Even Toyotas. Bob

It depends on WHERE you want to go!!!! and how easily you want to get there.Don't forget,you can drag anything virtually anywhere you want,it all comes down to effort and desire