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Which one would you go for?

110 Defender hardtop

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Freelander commercial

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Rob R

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:35 pm Post subject: Which would you go for (And why)?
One for the Landrover advocates here...

tahir

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:40 pm Post subject:
What about this? https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mercedes-Unimog_W0QQitemZ4626952487QQcategoryZ108848QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Rob R

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:43 pm Post subject:
Maybe one day, when we've made our first million Could 'borrow' one if we needed it

tahir

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:49 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:51 pm Post subject:

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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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:51 pm Post subject:
Took me a minute to realise you weren't talking about some sort of blokeish computer war games...

Rob R

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 5:52 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

botchability

Don't- our 110 epitomises that word

Can you imagine chucking carcasses up into the mog tho

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:12 pm Post subject:
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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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:15 pm Post subject:

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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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:27 pm Post subject:
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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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:33 pm Post subject:
Defender because its a "real" one!

Rob R

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:34 pm Post subject:

Bernie66 wrote:

Defender because its a "real" one!

I better start a whip round

pricey

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:48 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

pricey wrote:

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

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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:51 pm Post subject:

pricey wrote:

Take a clean pair, for when you get there

My coldstore is going to be clean you know, cheeky

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 06 6:54 pm Post subject:
Er, if I knew what they both looked like, I'd tell you which was the prettiest

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