Landrovers - the new quad?

yantorsen said:
There practical, as in you can store lots of things in them, they can carry a lot of people.
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Store things in it? Sounds like you might want a van, sheds and garages can store things. Also what is 'a lot' of people?


yantorsen said:
There fun because you can take them anywhere, and they look well good.
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We don't live in the Urals, how many times are you going to encounter places where other cars can't get to/allowed to in your daily life?


yantorsen said:
You can modify them by putting winches, snorkels, spot lights, big tyres etc on them.
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yantorsen said:
But if you can only afford one car when your young then you can't afford a separate weekend toy.
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If you can afford to do that then you could run a second car, if you bin it whilst off roading, your stuffed.
 
I'm looking at getting a land rover next year, I'll be 20. The reason is I do a lot of sea fishing and a 4x4 is very useful to get to some of the more rural beaches and cliffs. Don't think I'm a chav either :p
 
Unmolested ones in dark green or safari beige are cool, with original steel wheels the same colour as the body.

modified ones or ones with stickers that pronounce "no bmw parts" or "one life, live it" are very un cool.
 
Dogbreath said:
Green laning is using it's off-road capabilities is it not?

They are certainly very practical if you are a farmer and need to tow a horsebox, or carry a few bales of hay out to your animals. For basic road transport there are numerous more practical, comfortable and better performing choices.
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I can't think of anything more practical that can go off road for less than 2K? Except maybe some Japanese off-roaders, or old Jeeps, but they have all the same problems.

Muffin` said:
Store things in it? Sounds like you might want a van, sheds and garages can store things. Also what is 'a lot' of people?
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I mean luggage capacity. The 110/109s can take up to 12 people.


Muffin` said:
We don't live in the Urals, how many times are you going to encounter places where other cars can't get to/allowed to in your daily life?
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Probably not very often, but It's nice to have the ability, and being able to get to more remote locations would be good for my mountain biking and photography.


Muffin` said:
If you can afford to do that then you could run a second car, if you bin it whilst off roading, your stuffed.
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Not really, if you have a 1k Series III Land Rover you might not be able to afford anything else, and you're hardly stuffed if you bin it.
 
yantorsen said:
But it would be great to be able to go to more remote places.

Also I don't know any hatchbacks that can take 12 people.
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I think you've managed to brilliantly not quote me. :D

You don't ever need to take 12 people anywhere, especially in a 110/LWB Landy, they are uncomfortable and you will then have no luggage space what so ever. In a 90/SWB you have exactly the same problem, only less seats anyway due to the 90/SWB.

For both photography and mountainbiking you don't need a Landy, my brother does fine with his N reg Corolla. If somewhere is inaccesable via a car for photography, walk, you'll get more shots of interesting things. If it's when biking, use the bike, it'll get a lot of places the Landy won't.

If you can afford an early one, you can afford an early car, and you will be screwed if you prang it, the same as with a car. They are rusty and no built like tanks, thye bend easily and cost a lot to fix, believe me.
 
As far as I can tell it's just a small minority of youths who actually have a mechanical up-bringing. They're also obsessed with Series Land Rovers over Defenders.

I find their reactions quite amusing if I claim to be looking at buying a Santana.
 
InvaderGIR said:
I think you've managed to brilliantly not quote me. :D

You don't ever need to take 12 people anywhere, especially in a 110/LWB Landy, they are uncomfortable and you will then have no luggage space what so ever. In a 90/SWB you have exactly the same problem, only less seats anyway due to the 90/SWB.

For both photography and mountainbiking you don't need a Landy, my brother does fine with his N reg Corolla. If somewhere is inaccesable via a car for photography, walk, you'll get more shots of interesting things. If it's when biking, use the bike, it'll get a lot of places the Landy won't.

If you can afford an early one, you can afford an early car, and you will be screwed if you prang it, the same as with a car. They are rusty and no built like tanks, thye bend easily and cost a lot to fix, believe me.
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But it's more fun to go off roading than just park up in a car park. I also plan to go back to SA and go on safari and mount a tri pod for my camera on the back of the landy :D

I know that landys panels will bend and dent, but the point was it doesn't really matter, because it kind of suits an old landy, whilst on most other cars it just looks tatty. From the prices I've seen there a lot cheaper to get replacement parts that a lot of other cars.

oh and yeah I did manage to no quote you because your post was all within a quite :p
 
Off roading is good fun, not only in an off road vehicle, not a road one that has 4WD and a low range box. Again, make it for off roading and on road it'll handle like a pig...we tried it out on our 110 with some chunky wide tyres on wide alloys/steels.

Take one down to SA...I take it you mean South Africa? I'd not want to get one shipped or drive one all the way down there unless I was taking part in some fun run rally thing.

Dented panels on any vehicle make them look tatty, my family's 110 Deffended is a good example, it looks horrible with dented panels and rust due to the dents, but they are not worth fixing as the vehicle is not worth it.

Overall the rust a lot, ours has had a lot of welding work done and it's still got patches that could do with being done. You may be able to do it yourself, but you'll be spending more time fixing it than driving it, especially if you take it properly off road and bash it on all sorts.

The one we have is on an H plate and has a lot spent on it to keep it on the road every year.

I can understand people getting 90s with TD5 engines and on the likes of an 02 plate, as it should be the same as any other SWB 4x4 on the road, but the older ones just aren't worth it unless you have a lot of cash to throw at it when it breaks, and it will break, often.

Tyres are expensive, and you'll get through a lot if you take it down random roads, you'll get punctures and they wear out just as fast as car tyres.

Don't get me wrong, I love Landys, but I just can't see the appeal to have one if you aren't a farmer/live in a very rural area, no matter on age.
 
yantorsen said:
Well not really, plus they don't really depreciate either.
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As previously explained, the Defender is a very sparse car. For good reason - but you can't say you get lots of car for the money because you quite clearly don't. When you've done more than look at a picture of one on the internet you'll understand :p
 
I would definitely rather a defender than a crap little hatchback which most first time car buyers seem to get, though. Potential for lots of fun with them.

No luxuries, but the type of cars we are comparing to are rubbish anyway.
 
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