Thread: Land Rover, which one is best?- Your Opinion?

Originally Posted by downundersteve

Hi All
Here's one to put the cat among the pigeons!

Which Landy is/was the best off road, standard as it came from the factory.
What’s your opinion?

Obviously it’s the Classic Range Rover
Nice and comfortable good clearance, air conditioning, what more could you want!
But then I might be a little bias

There can be only one
The best off roader
Then it has to be the Defender 90 Hands down winner.

Originally Posted by Reads90

There can be only one
The best off roader
Then it has to be the Defender 90 Hands down winner.

Which one Reads .. we need more detail?? I remember test driving a D90 in South-Africa with the 2.8i BMW engine .. to say "it went" is an understatement!

I agree with the D90 being the best offroader .... but considering most people will carry a lot of gear and more than two people .. the 110's load carrying puts it ahead of the 90 for me.

Surely what's best varies by the type of off-road? And how often you do it? And how quickly?

I think it would be hard to argue that anything since in the Defender line was better than a V8 90 (but then there's always the water crossing). From what I've seen, LR have been slowly reducing the strength of components to save money, so the earlier in the model line the stronger the drivetrain, and the rest is essentially unchanged. I'd go for the 90 over the 110, and unfortunately, JD, that excudes the 4BD1.

The D3 has to be a contender. What it lacks in mechanical ability (e.g. articulation) it more than makes up with electronic ability. But it's fragile compared with a 90 or Classic Range Rover.

If I were racing with an essentially unlimited budget, I'd go the RRS. Any faults would be immediately rectified by the in-car computer being used by the navigator

Steve

Originally Posted by JDNSW

It depends on your definition of better!

Agree, I honestly thin no one vehicle will fit this label ... if things like ergonomics, interior comfort are to be considered .. any Series or defender variant will take a back seat

Originally Posted by JDNSW

BUT! it has a turbocharger and intercooler as additional complications and maintenance/repair items, it has a camshaft drive belt (complete with manufacturing/design defects to the setup and regular replacements),

i would have thought the design and manufacturing defects would have been well and truly ironed out by now especially in the rebored 2.8 which I think is the ducks nuts when it comes to landy engines.

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Originally Posted by Greylandy

Which one Reads .. we need more detail?? I remember test driving a D90 in South-Africa with the 2.8i BMW engine .. to say "it went" is an understatement!

I agree with the D90 being the best offroader .... but considering most people will carry a lot of gear and more than two people .. the 110's load carrying puts it ahead of the 90 for me.

Ok well the 50th anervesary was nice 4.0 V8 Auto A/c. Really wish i had bought one of these over with me





For a tarts one It has to be the Nas spec




But for Off roading at it extrweme mud and crap 200 TDi (my old 90)



For sheer power MY brothers 90 with 4.6 V8

you young uns, no taste all fancy bits and extra power.... (ok off the old man bash now)

For my money


IIA SWB Diesel..

preferabley made and imported before it has to comply with 90% of the ADR's

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1998 defender 110 2.8 300tdi.

There is no "logical" sense why the 4BD1 was better than the late model 300tdi's. How many armed forces around the world use Defenders? How many of those Defenders are fitted with 4BD1 compared to 300tdi?

I think the 300tdi offer a more drivable, economical and more versatile Defender.

How many armed forces in the world use 2.8 litre 300 tdi's NONE

Land Rovers in the original form (pre 1986) were the toughest. I personally thik JDNSW is spot on Land Rovers went down hill significantly after this year even identical components were made from lesser materials (check Salisbury diffs once the disk brake models came in the component materials changed significantly)
The 4BD1 was a real engine with the ability not only to perform but the ability to take severe punishment and wholesale abuse.