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Which one would you go for?
110 Defender hardtop
100%
 100%  [ 19 ]
Freelander commercial
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Total Votes : 19

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Rob R



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:35 pm    Post subject: Which would you go for (And why)? Reply with quote
    

One for the Landrover advocates here...

tahir



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What about this?

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mercedes-Unimog_W0QQitemZ4626952487QQcategoryZ108848QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Rob R



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Maybe one day, when we've made our first million Could 'borrow' one if we needed it

tahir



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

In that case I'll vote for the Defender, a true Brit classic, hard as nails and huge parts availablity and botchability, I've seen all sorts of engines in a Defender

Gervase



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The Defender any day. Our 90 spends its life covered in crap (and full of it), and a Freelander is just a little too 'refained' for my tastes. I like to drive wearing wellies or site boots, and the 90/110 has pedals like paving slabs. It's also ludicrously easy and cheap to service and fix. It would have to be a 300Tdi rather than a poncy new TD5 with all its electrickery though...
And who needs to be able to hear the radio?

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Mary-Jane



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Took me a minute to realise you weren't talking about some sort of blokeish computer war games...

Rob R



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
botchability


Don't- our 110 epitomises that word

Can you imagine chucking carcasses up into the mog tho

pricey



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think the voting Say's it all Rob.

We have a disco 2 2.5 tdi, were looking at the freelander.

No boot space, cant drive with wellies on, not very economical, to name a few.

With the defender you can teat it mean and it still doe's every thing you want and more, just like the Discovery.

Rob R



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

pricey wrote:
I think the voting Say's it all Rob.

We have a disco 2 2.5 tdi, were looking at the freelander.

No boot space, cant drive with wellies on, not very economical, to name a few.

With the defender you can teat it mean and it still doe's every thing you want and more, just like the Discovery.


Think you're right, but also partly why I was thinking about Freelander- ie keep the wellies out of it so it's always clean for the abattoir run.

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

A friend of mine has a Freelander and things keep going wrong and it's only a year or so old.

I'd go for a Defender mainly because you can fix it yourself and get the parts cheaply.

Bernie66



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Defender because its a "real" one!

Rob R



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bernie66 wrote:
Defender because its a "real" one!


I better start a whip round

pricey



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Rob R wrote:
pricey wrote:
I think the voting Say's it all Rob.

We have a disco 2 2.5 tdi, were looking at the freelander.

No boot space, cant drive with wellies on, not very economical, to name a few.

With the defender you can teat it mean and it still doe's every thing you want and more, just like the Discovery.


Think you're right, but also partly why I was thinking about Freelander- ie keep the wellies out of it so it's always clean for the abattoir run.


Take a clean pair, for when you get there .

Rob R



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

pricey wrote:
Take a clean pair, for when you get there .


My coldstore is going to be clean you know, cheeky

Fee



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Er, if I knew what they both looked like, I'd tell you which was the prettiest

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