I have a Heritage 90 and a normal 110. Your right, it’s so cool. You either get them or you don’t and there’s nothing wrong if you don’t. No sane person would buy one. But values are rocketing ( not that I would sell either of mine) and the smiles per miles are off the planet. Great series of videos, love them all.
I like the comments on G-wagen v. Defender. I never got the appeal of a G-wagen even though the new ones are loaded with new tech, they have lost some authenticity in the process. Looking around my local neighbourhood, G-wagens & Gucci seem to go together - Land Rovers & mountain bikes / skis / kayaks, depending on the season go together. My informal polling.
Apart from being a massive BL perv myself, there's just something really pleasing about seeing all the ancient switch gear. I'm not sure those switches are from the R6 Metro. They don't look quite right, but maybe the same mechanism under a new face. The hazard switch is from a facelift R6 (Rover 100), the earlier ones had a big blinking red button on the top of the steering column. I bloody love these final Defenders purely for the colour.
Customer of mine has one in his heated garage with his steam cars and vintage Bentleys. From memory it still has only delivery miles! Love one but not the Transit engine/gearbox!
Love these vids. Regarding the switches, I used to work for the manufacturer. The window lift are MGF and those either side of the hazard are early Freelander. The rest are all JLR parts bin.
True, but the MGF and the Freelander, being parts bin specials themselves, took them from existing BL/ARG/Rover Group stuff like the 88.5MY Montego and R6 Metro.
I bloody love Defenders. With regard to everything falling off, part of the PDI for Def's in my local Landie dealer was to whip the door cards of to make sure the window regulator and glass clamp bolts had been done up. Apparently got fed up of 2 week old Def's coming back in the the glass either stuck or broken in the bottom of the doors. 😂 They used to turn up with bolts loose etc. The way they were designed and built was partly their demise, it was too fiddly and human intensive.
The wolf’s were properly quick, the army had a solution to stop squaddies speeding, they would put a bolt through the throttle pedal to stop it going all the way to the floor, guess what the first thing we did was when getting in it?
College Craft Project.. lmfao!! Seriously Rich, you need to waxoyl the inner chassis and bulkhead. Oh, and the inside of the doors too. I did my 2011 the day I bought her and shes still like new.
On the mis-alignment, stand in front and look at the square headlight surrounds, one side is level, other is few degrees tilted … "they're all like that sir!" … go find some of Johnathon Wards horror stories on laser-scanning D90/D110's for Icon re-manufactured versions, hilarious how 50yrs of hand-production/ancient tooling left signs of it everywhere. Love them all to bits ;)
Excellent video. I got to see the production line a few days before they stopped making them. Unfortunately most of the ones being made at that point were in a bling spec.
Another good vid. You guys are right - I would not keep chickens in one down here in Australia without aircon thesedays. I was a bit younger and rather silly when I had the old S3 and thought aircon was for puffs back then......
Love it, love it, love it!! I so miss my Defender. Jonny you so need to electrify a Defender or a Series!! Make it Uber quick please......please! Oh and let me test drive it 😬😬😬
I've always thought that electric made great sense for an off-roader, because you get massive torque at 0 RPM. I guess range is still the issue though, as part of the appeal of a landy is the feeling that you could just hop in, and drive it across the Sahara if you felt like it, and that's not as easy with an electric vehicle.
Tom Range is getting better all the time as batteries get denser and new tech appears. Solid state batteries offer such a giant leap. 100 mile EV doing 1000 Miles with a pack of the same physical size. We are living in exciting times right now. Seismic changes in the way we move transport around. I’ve just watch a video of a test flight in a fully electric plane...the future today 😬
I love that defender owners have a wave too. Also I know how you feel with the brutish drive. (granted mines newer) I have an 09 jeep Jk Rubicon, yes it's a bumpy and wiggly, the steering is loose, and there's more road noise. Not to mention bad gas mileage. But I love every bit of it. Especially with no doors or top, it really makes me feel like my jeeps in her element and unique. I do really want to drive and maybe own a defender 110, also a Willy's mb or early cj.
Funny that the colour of this should be Grasmere Green, as the last thing I watched before this video was a William Wordsworth documentary... road trip idea? Take it to the Lake District...
If you leave your Xmas decorations up all year this is the car for you. Its the Aga stove of British cars isn't it. Useful for three things you never do.
Did they ever learn how to put these together properly before stopping making them? My parents bought a green V8 110 county new back in 1983, it broke down on the way home from the dealer, it leaked like a sieve, and the doors would regularly pop open on the motorway. They went Japanese after the LR and never looked back.
I really do think there is a gap in the market for used defenders to be refurbished and improved (better bushes and softer G wagon style bumpstops) as long as they are not overpriced.
Quick question, is that whirring tyre noise ? I have Goodyear wranglers on my 2012 puma and I get a very pronounced warble whine noise between 30-65mph.
As a Series 3 Land-Rover Driver, I wouldn't wave to somebody in a new defender. You're not experiencing major discomfort, your ride's not this harsh, Your engine's not this noisy, Your steering's not this heavy, You've got fancy smancy painted wheel arches! You can't be in our club!
a couple of amateur drivers and their opinions.... (yawn) thanks for fast forward. I bought mine same 3-door model in 1973. Presently, I drive a 2016 Disco 4 HSE Lux. (I mellowed out in my old age)
