Could this be the ultimate Defender??

[BLUETHUNDER]

I really love this








The ownly downer.....And it,s a big one is the price.Which is firmly in RRS territory at £43,000.A bit much for what is basicaly a work horse.

[agent006]

Mhy not just buy a hummer rather than ruin a defender trying to make it into one.

[BLUETHUNDER]

I quite like it.I think it,s tastefully done.It,s just the price.

[tybo]

This one sounds like it could be fun

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/305470.htm

Edited by tybo on Wednesday 5th December 21:24

[biglepton]

It's horrible. The ultimate Defender would not have road tyres and ramp breakover angle dstroying side-steps that cripple it's off-road ability.

Why do people insist on turning the only remaining proper off-road vehicle you can buy into sad pimp-mobiles?

Burn it I say!

[biglepton]

tybo said:

This one sounds like it could be fun

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/305470.htm

Edited by tybo on Wednesday 5th December 21:24

[BLUETHUNDER]

biglepton said:

It's horrible. The ultimate Defender would not have road tyres and ramp breakover angle dstroying side-steps that cripple it's off-road ability.

Why do people insist on turning the only remaining proper off-road vehicle you can buy into sad pimp-mobiles?

Burn it I say!

Your a hard man to please.

[biglepton]

BLUETHUNDER said:

Your a hard man to please.

That's true, but it is still a sin against nature and all that's holy to take a Defender and stop it being good off-road! If I bought a GT3 and fitted 750x16 mud crossplies and a bullbar I'd get massacred on here and rightly so, so I feel duty bound to hunt down and murder in cold blood anyone who turns a Defender into a lame suburban fashion statement and the local police are sufficiently inept as to allow me to hold a firearms licence so beware!

[Blue Meanie]

Christ on a bike... That poor thing is so confused!

[Liszt]

Perhaps there is a second set of wheels with Mud terrains and they remove the steps for off roading?

It's what I do on mine. five bolts on each side for the steps. Takes 10 minutes a side. Also my steps are higher than the chassis rails so they do not limit the break over as such. They are no use as tree sliders. Having 2 small kids, I find DVDs brilliant for long journeys. Means we all arrive less stressed.

I give it a thumbs up.

[thewave]

Stick some proper wheels on, a winch, and that's still got some serious clearance, and becomes a LR again.

Personally though, any Land Rover that you don't have to hose down the inside, isn't a LR.

[BLUETHUNDER]

Maybe the Ultimate Defender was taking it a bit far.Most luxurious probably.But i still love the look of it.I think the ultimate Defender tag goes to this..........



A SAS 110 Hi-cap DPV. Sadly no longer in service with 22 SAS.Of the 72 built ony 5 remain.This one being one of them.And these were only by accident.The four in private hands were bought out through the auctions as wrecked vehicles and rebuilt.The 5th is in the hands of the Dunsfold collection and was sanctioned by the M.O.D.The remaining 68 were slung in the crusher with a cretin from the M.O.D over looking the operation..There is still nothing that matches the sound of one of these as they drive by.I have never heard another V8 LR that sounds like a DPV.

[biglepton]

BLUETHUNDER said:

Maybe the Ultimate Defender was taking it a bit far.Most luxurious probably.But i still love the look of it.I think the ultimate Defender tag goes to this..........

Nearly right, but it's not a Defender. It was made before some marketing tt thought up the 'Defender' name so it's really a One-Ten. . . . . .

[agent006]

BLUETHUNDER said:

I think the ultimate Defender tag goes to this..........

Very nice but the hardcore image is ruined rather by the nice shiny thermos flask perched on the side.

[BLUETHUNDER]

biglepton said:

BLUETHUNDER said:

Maybe the Ultimate Defender was taking it a bit far.Most luxurious probably.But i still love the look of it.I think the ultimate Defender tag goes to this..........

Nearly right, but it's not a Defender. It was made before some marketing tt thought up the 'Defender' name so it's really a One-Ten. . . . . .

Yeah but in reality they are all 90,and 110,s.The re-branding was done to distinguish the range prior to the launch of the Disco one back in 89.

[BLUETHUNDER]

agent006 said:

BLUETHUNDER said:

I think the ultimate Defender tag goes to this..........

Very nice but the hardcore image is ruined rather by the nice shiny thermos flask perched on the side.

You need some thing warm to drink on a cold Novembers morning at Brooklands

Edited by BLUETHUNDER on Thursday 6th December 23:48

Edited by BLUETHUNDER on Thursday 6th December 23:49

[thinfourth2]

if that kind of thing floats your boat there is this one for about 16k

[CY88]

thinfourth2 said:

if that kind of thing floats your boat there is this one for about 16k

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/290854.htm

Edited by CY88 on Monday 10th December 09:43

[Hard-Drive]

Original vehicle is nice (as long as you don't mind pulling grit out your DVD) but the wheels are heinous.

Get it on some big 265s or similar and on Freestyles, the nicest 4x4 alloys anyone has ever created.

[thinfourth2]

BLUETHUNDER said:

I really love this

Note the paper towels underneath to catch the oil drips

Don't you just love defenders