Thread: Won’t be retro...

Originally Posted by Vern

Yes, my patrol is 5.6L, 300kw, and as economical as my isuzu county. (12L/100km) It uses, 2L/100 more than our old 2.0l twin turbo amarok, and our old 300tdi disco1. Long live modern petrol v8's.

The fuel usage on my D2a V8 would bring tears to your eyes But the 79 series V8 gets about 15l/100k and that's towing a 2t van, This is why I like the diesel V8 idea for the new Defender.

Originally Posted by Vern

My reason for a v8 petrol, is simplicity. And a flat torque curve. Sound. Power. Less bits and pieces bolted to the engine for emissions and to make power.

I like all those things about the Y62, but just can’t come at the middle dash design. It’s had to look past the bang for buck.

Originally Posted by trout1105

The fuel usage on my D2a V8 would bring tears to your eyes But the 79 series V8 gets about 15l/100k and that's towing a 2t van, This is why I like the diesel V8 idea for the new Defender.

You mist drive like my mum to get those figures.
Best we could get in a 79 when away was 14.9, not towing.
Y62 gets 20-23 towing a 3.5t van, which is better than the 200 guys are getting.
The worst we have had is 15.1 towing our campertrailer (amarok was min 16 towing same camper), best is 10.1 down the hwy not towing. With those figures, its not worth the extra expense and upkeep of a diesel v8 imho.

Originally Posted by rar110

I like all those things about the Y62, but just can’t come at the middle dash design. It’s had to look past the bang for buck.

Folks are wrapping them in charcaol colours, they look good after this, may do it myself. Only downside i can find with the vehicle.

You mist drive like my mum to get those figures

The missus drives the 79 series and tows the van when we head off on our trips, I don't like the idea of her towing my boat.
We usually sit on about 90kph, This not only saves fuel But at that sort of speed there is less chance of doing a mischief to the van or God forbid my boat

Originally Posted by trout1105

The fuel usage on my D2a V8 would bring tears to your eyes But the 79 series V8 gets about 15l/100k and that's towing a 2t van, This is why I like the diesel V8 idea for the new Defender.

Little off topic I know but my heavy D2 lifted and 31 inch duras averages 14.5 - 15 in and out to Brisbane and 13.5 on highway. It even averaged 15 doing the Cape trip at GVM and a fair bit of stuff on the roof rack. It averages just under 15 towing a 750kg boat and close to GVM for camping and fishing trips. That is the reason I couldn’t see the value in a td5 for my application in terms of fuel saving (mine is manual and that makes a difference). Now my mates have Tritons and similarly laden they do have considerable fuel savings.

Cheers

I rekon that a small capacity petrol engined Defender would work for me. I don’t do a lot of towing, and outback trips are done in the 101 (25L/100).

Originally Posted by blackrangie

31,000 views your always going to get a lot of mod reports, especially when someone dare say something is more reliable then a defender!

If someone goes "off topic" and says a Toyota is more reliable than a defender and defenders have issues galore and toyotas can do no wrong, do you leave it sitting there on a LR forum, report it or defend it yourself?? I think on a land rover forum you must defend respectfully without attacking personally. Then get back on topic quickly.

Oh well,here we go again

That is a completely incorrect statement again,i presume that is referring to my posts way back?

And a blatant disregard to what the Mods have asked for,just a few posts back?

All it does is invites people to respond,as someone has.

Not what we need,more off topic garbage.

And it goes on and on.

Keep it up and the thread will more than likely get locked,which will be a shame.

As the mods have said,we want sensible ON TOPIC posts,not irrelevant rubbish.