Date Published: 21st January 2011
Price £2000-£30,000Dates 1985-onThe basic Land Rover, in various guises. Expensive and very poorly equipped to buy new, but with awesome residuals, though the used market is full of unknown quantities. Saving a few quid by going for a rough one is always a false economy, but even pampered ones go wrong.
Buyer beware!The majority of second-hand examples are more abused than used. Early turbo-diesel engines and the gearboxes on 300Tdi models were the low spots ina generally horrific tale of unreliability. Interiors can get into a fearsome state.
+ Great off-road, easy to modify- Cramped, unrefined, unreliable
What you get£2500 Rough early ones£7500 Decent Tdi/Td5 vans£12,500 Late Td5s on highish miles
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