Yes but there is no finer beast to navigate such terrain as the common Jeep Wrangler, of which this is a 1988-1992 vintage. The only bit of non-stock gear I can see is the tow strap on the front bumper.
Nice ride, unstoppable even with mere truck tires, in my opinion. A hummer wouldn't even fit down the narrow trail.
Defenders are history more so than old Jeeps outside of isolated pockets of them. They never did catch on at all in the USA. Spoken as former dealer technician for Land Rover USA.
V-8 Defender was one of the nicest balanced 4x4s out there. The percentage of our customers that owned them that went more off road than a gravel parking lot was minimal, though. Lots more Jeeps and OLD Toyota Land Crushers with American V-8s and 292ci 6s and the like stuffed in them actually got/get dirty 'round these parts.
A Defender 90 will get just as far as a Jeep Wrangler, if not further, properly driven. And you do not need a socking great petrol V8 to have some serious mud plugging fun. I've done some serious work in a standard 110 2.5Tdi. But not at speed, because that's not what these vehicles are designed for. They are supposed to be able to get 2 - 4 blokes and their gear to wherever they want to be and most usefully at about 5 to 10 mph.
I'm just off to pull a tree, blown down by last nights winds, out of the road with mine.
Defender 90s aren't fiscally viable in the US (as above) and anybody that's driven a V-8 Defender or any of the other's mentioned above and not had a blast is lying :p Might not need it but it's a hell of a lot of fun.
You should try the Old Endurance course at Lympstone, RM Commando training base, in the cold of winter when you had to break the ice to do the water tunnel. The the run back to camp with the water frozen on your body ..That's all stopped not with all this 'ealth und safety!!!!
As a Land Rover dealer technician I saw very few that saw dirt. When I worked at general hot rod shops where we did Jeeps and Toyotas as well as the odd Scout or swb american 4x4 pickup, it was rare to not find one massively dirty and obviously heavily used off road (we aren't talking soccer mom SUV shops here).
The above is why they stopped bringing Defenders of any kind into the USA. A brilliant 4wd vehicle for seriously rough stuff but the sort of people that could afford to buy and service them didn't want to risk a bit of brush scratching in the paintwork, much less actually bending bits on them or getting them seriously dirty less the one gentleman with the diesel WITH SNORKELS and winches front and back that actually even put the snorkels to good use. This was one customer out of about 100 in the area.
Pet peeve of mine as I always was going to get around to get one but spares costs alone make that impractical now. Felt the same way when they pulled the Alfa Milano from the US market. Great fun but the spares costs eat you up.
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Road tyres don't work out too well in mud as a rule.
You could have shown it done with a Defender!
Yes but there is no finer beast to navigate such terrain as the common Jeep Wrangler, of which this is a 1988-1992 vintage. The only bit of non-stock gear I can see is the tow strap on the front bumper.
Nice ride, unstoppable even with mere truck tires, in my opinion. A hummer wouldn't even fit down the narrow trail.
Defenders are history more so than old Jeeps outside of isolated pockets of them. They never did catch on at all in the USA. Spoken as former dealer technician for Land Rover USA.
V-8 Defender was one of the nicest balanced 4x4s out there. The percentage of our customers that owned them that went more off road than a gravel parking lot was minimal, though. Lots more Jeeps and OLD Toyota Land Crushers with American V-8s and 292ci 6s and the like stuffed in them actually got/get dirty 'round these parts.
Hummers wouldn't fit?
Hey, we'd knock the trees down, while towing a string of Wranglers out of the muck! There's nothing like a HUMMER!
A Defender 90 will get just as far as a Jeep Wrangler, if not further, properly driven. And you do not need a socking great petrol V8 to have some serious mud plugging fun. I've done some serious work in a standard 110 2.5Tdi. But not at speed, because that's not what these vehicles are designed for. They are supposed to be able to get 2 - 4 blokes and their gear to wherever they want to be and most usefully at about 5 to 10 mph.
I'm just off to pull a tree, blown down by last nights winds, out of the road with mine.
PS Hummers ARE too fat.
Defender 90s aren't fiscally viable in the US (as above) and anybody that's driven a V-8 Defender or any of the other's mentioned above and not had a blast is lying :p Might not need it but it's a hell of a lot of fun.
You should try the Old Endurance course at Lympstone, RM Commando training base, in the cold of winter when you had to break the ice to do the water tunnel. The the run back to camp with the water frozen on your body ..That's all stopped not with all this 'ealth und safety!!!!
I don't see to many photos of Defenders at play....May be money where mouth is might be good
Peter, twas my point.
As a Land Rover dealer technician I saw very few that saw dirt. When I worked at general hot rod shops where we did Jeeps and Toyotas as well as the odd Scout or swb american 4x4 pickup, it was rare to not find one massively dirty and obviously heavily used off road (we aren't talking soccer mom SUV shops here).
The above is why they stopped bringing Defenders of any kind into the USA. A brilliant 4wd vehicle for seriously rough stuff but the sort of people that could afford to buy and service them didn't want to risk a bit of brush scratching in the paintwork, much less actually bending bits on them or getting them seriously dirty less the one gentleman with the diesel WITH SNORKELS and winches front and back that actually even put the snorkels to good use. This was one customer out of about 100 in the area.
Pet peeve of mine as I always was going to get around to get one but spares costs alone make that impractical now. Felt the same way when they pulled the Alfa Milano from the US market. Great fun but the spares costs eat you up.
In real jeeps the passenger windshield wiper is manually operated by the passenger.
Right - time to find some Dirty Defender pics...
As promised:-
1. An NAS spec Defender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAzPiHb7NYI
2. Another left hooker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26E7wKwaHWI&feature=related
3.more from somewhere foreign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtdbUGej_WU&feature=related
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Jeep doesn't rate in Aust.
Too breakable.
It's Landcruisers or Patrols or nothing.
Hummers are Fat? Ha Ha ...
So check out these fatties...
http://www.elcova.com/h2/potmjuly2.jpg
http://www.elcova.com/h2/potmjune10.jpg
http://www.elcova.com/h2/potmmay2.jpg
http://www.elcova.com/h2/potmjune1.jpg
http://www.elcova.com/h2/potmnov3.jpg
http://www.elcova.com/h2/potm0305-4.jpg
http://www.elcova.com/h2/potm0406-2.jpg
That's more pictures of Hummers in the field than there are dirty Defenders in the whole US of A.
Not really that bothered about the S of A actually. In the World the first vehicle seen by most people was the Land Rover. It's an Empire thing.
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