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I've had my Td5 90 for a year now, and have never regretted buying it, the thing i love most is the ability to just wash it out if it gets dirty. I have vynal seats and all the flooring has rubber matting so there is nothing to absorb water, i can go out with the bike (or dog), get covered in mud then just load up the defender and not have to worry about getting anything dirty as it just wipes off. As numerous others have said, it just makes any journey enjoyable.
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So how do you put a picture on here? 😳
I love Landys with a passion. I have wanted one of my own for years and years and years, particularly a 90 hard top. I live pretty much in the country, own two spaniels and go shooting a fair bit as well. I keep being told to buy one by my wife, usually in an annoyed tone of voice when I have just pointed one out and shouted "Land Rover".
However, I _will not_ buy one.
They are slow, underpowered, thirsty and (for my 6' 5") far too cramped. The load space in a 90 is tiny and they have no back seats unless you go for a county. The road noise would drive me mad in short order, and I would have to cut a hole in the roof for lamping.
I know that if I did buy one i would hate it quickly and that would spoil what is, for me, a dream. I'm even thinking of selling my Frontera B (which has full leather, A/C, a huge boot, seating for five adults and a huge boot, _AND_ does 35mpg) so that I can buy an even more economical estate car for the road journeys that I am doing more of now. If I need to go lamping, I have a mate with a Hilux.
What to advise? go with your heart. If it is wrong for you, then sell it on.
I have a 90 TD5 and its great. They may be slow but when your driving them you don't notice 40 mph feels more like 60+ mph in a normal car. I don't find them cramped, I'm 6'3" in a standard 90 hardtop. I've driven a 110 mile daily commute in it for a month before and it was fine. In rush hour traffic it is great you seem to get far more space as no-one want to risk cutting up the yokel who doesn't know the big city ways.
Then again my main vehicle before getting it was this: [img] 
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(I didn't try the commute in it)
im 6'5" I drove to Morocco and back with no comfort problems.
I'm 6'4" and drove one 10 miles to pick up parts in a 110 last week. Had to shoe horn myself back out the heap of junk, after being blown around the motorway, and remembering why I really really hate the things.
There are far more capable and reliable motors out there.
Don't do it, you'll only find that in reality they are:
Cheap to insure
Cheap to tax
Cheap to run (if you can wield a spanner)
Low depreciation
Expensive to fuel though - 20-25mpg
110 van get bikes straight in the back.
They are Marmite cars, I love mine , my wife hates it.
Right my 110 has just gone to another home, £3750, i paid £5600 for it back in 2004, it was manufactured in 1986, now who was saying they are a poor value for money ?
the wife was crying watching it go up the road,
Right my 110 has just gone to another home, £3750, i paid £5600 for it back in 2004, it was manufactured in 1986, now who was saying they are a poor value for money ?
The wife of the bloke you sold it to? 😉
NO, i'm not goping to talk you out of it. Just buy one. If you dont like it sell it on. If you buy second hand you wont lose much.