Discovery or Freelander

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Hi, just joined the site and have a question.
I have £8,000 to spend but can't make up my mind whether to buy a Freelander or a Discovery.
Your advice and thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Dave
 
see now if i'd have been a mod i'd have edited his post cos he's clearly made a mistake and typed Freelander instead of Defender
 
think the OP has noticed there's a bit of a theme running through all these replies yet ....

gerra defender !
 
Sean said:
think the OP has noticed there's a bit of a theme running through all these replies yet ....

gerra defender !
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Just to try and be helpful :) I've had three discos and a freeloader, all diesels. The Freelander (S reg bought new) was the most reliable and drove more like a car. Took it off road in Turkey, and Romania (actually Romania didn't have roads in those days). But it wasn't big enough for me and I missed the bottom box and the ground clearance was rubbish (bent the sills and snapped the stay on the under-engine "protector" doing a rescue on Dartmoor). The three discos have all cost me far more to maintain, but fit my needs better and are lovely to drive when they are working. Best of the three is the TD5. I don't think I'd go back to a TDi, especially the 200 - a bit agriculturrral ooo arrrr...

Whatever you get, keep some of that cash for repairs.:)
 
PASTMASTER said:
Just to try and be helpful :) I've had three discos and a freeloader, all diesels. The Freelander (S reg bought new) was the most reliable and drove more like a car. Took it off road in Turkey, and Romania (actually Romania didn't have roads in those days). But it wasn't big enough for me and I missed the bottom box and the ground clearance was rubbish (bent the sills and snapped the stay on the under-engine "protector" doing a rescue on Dartmoor). The three discos have all cost me far more to maintain, but fit my needs better and are lovely to drive when they are working. Best of the three is the TD5. I don't think I'd go back to a TDi, especially the 200 - a bit agriculturrral ooo arrrr...

Whatever you get, keep some of that cash for repairs.:)
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an dont forget the off road mods;)
 
Definitely a disco, but your bound to get a more biased opinion in this section. depends on what you want to do with the vehicle, if your thinking bout green lanin then i'd look more at the disco.
 
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