Thread: advantages of a 110 over a rover or disco

Sorry pricey but Lara has better boobs
I hope

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It's kinda strange that the biggest budget movies recently have mostly been smash and bash rubbish based on old comics. What's the matter with the American movie industry - can't it make intelligent movies any more?


At least the Bond movies feature Land Rovers, particularly Defenders (there, I got this thread back on topic), otherwise they'd be no better than the superhero rubbish being served up now.


Which reminds me - I must hire Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner during the holidays - looks like a movie for people whose brains still work properly.


So, is it only Defenders which appear in movies?

There's a yellow p38a in Layer Cake (great movie). And in Kick Ass....I think.
Police drive Disco 1s in 101 Dalmatians. Bad guy steals a police D4 in Skyfall.
Irish mobster drives a d2 in House but that's TV.
Just off the top of my head

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Also a series 3 and a 101 FC in bad boys 2

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A Disco 1 is the villain in "Cars"

Another advantage of the Defender over the Disco is weight. A Disco 4 TDV6 weighs about 2582kg while a Defender 110 weighs 1977 kg, according to the guide in 4 x 4 Australia, so that's about a 605 kg difference, give or take a few kilos. In comparison, a Rangie Sport TDV6 S is 2115kg, still 467 kg less than the D4 with the same engine.
Bluntly, the Disco is just fat. Its only positive point is that its still lighter than the positively lardy Landcruiser 200, whose GX TDV8 weighs 2640 kg. So the Landcuiser weighs 58kg more than the Disco, 525kg more than the Rangie Sport and a whopping 663 kg more than the Defender.
This extra weight should affect fuel economy and it does. The Disco's ADR fuel claim is 8.8 l/100km while the Landcruiser's is 10.3. And the Defender? I don't have that figure, maybe someone here does, but my latest fuel check on my Defender gave 9.0 l/100km, and that's a real world figure, not in a test. 4 x 4 Australia got on-test results of 11.5 from a Disco SDV6 SE and 12.5 from the Landcruiser GXL TD, according to its July, 2015 issue, which lobbed in the mailbox the other day.
So, based on weight and fuel consumption, a Defender is a better design than a Disco or Landcruiser. Bazinga! Ha.

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The Disco Gets all of its good bits from the defender, then adds a lot of fluff. Then the defender gets a few good bits from the Disco and leaves the fluff out.

Nothing wrong with a bit of fluff