Range rover defender4/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Part of that was undoubtedly down to the way it was specced, with editor-at-large Matt Prior playing a blinder by mixing old-school charm and off-road capability with the ultra-modern design – albeit, all in, adding 15% to the already chunky price tag of the high-end HSE model in the process. Despite the sometimes puzzled, often rational questions it attracted, it was always a car that I would clamber out of ready to passionately promote or defend. It had character, showing off without ever resorting to peacocking, resultantly making every journey special. Yet I loved it and I already miss it – and I suspect everyone asking the questions was motivated by an undercurrent of ‘I know I shouldn’t, but I want one’ too. A surprising number of people have written to tell me that they have just shopped elsewhere instead. The suspicion must be that it would rather push you to buy a pricier 110. Just this week, a reader sent me a link to a video to fix this problem, the solution so simple that Land Rover could implement it in a jiffy if it chose. Most unforgivably of all, the rear seats don’t fold flat, alienating a core target market of owners who like to travel with their dogs in cages. But therein lies the rub: it’s bang up to date yet a car everyone feels compelled to ask about.Īnd, frankly, who can blame them? As well as being out of step with the modern world in terms of its scale and unapologetic off-road bias, it is also irrationally expensive, has a boot that a Volkswagen Golf would smirk at and rear seats that require a mountaineer’s mindset to climb in or out of. In all those regards, it hauls the shortcomings of its predecessor bang up to date. It’s (almost) as good to drive on road as off it, comfortable even over long distances, practical and reasonably economical, just tipping 30mpg as an average at the end of our test. That’s not to say it’s in any way a bad car in fact, bar a few potentially cynically deliberate shortfalls, it’s extremely capable, remarkable as much for its breadth of abilities as the extremes of them. There are few rational levels on which the Land Rover Defender 90 makes obvious sense – which is why I’m about to recommend you buy one, albeit with a few provisos and a caution that you will be joining the back of a very long queue. ![]() Would we recommend joining a very long queue for this 4x4? You betcha - 18 May ![]()
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