Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Land Rover Defender - 2,000,000 model

I'd go for a pre 2005 Td5. Much cheaper VED than the later vehicles, and the Td5 is a lovely engine: smoother, more economical & more powerful than the earlier engines, and it has the anti-stall feature which is flippin' brilliant.

Go for one with the post 2002 ECU upgrade to avoid the jerky low-speed throttle - although it's easy to drive around. We love ours, it's a 2002 model that we bought when it was about 9 months old. It's now done just over 102k miles and has been completely reliable - although it does of course suffer from some of the usual Defender 'features' that make owning them so endearing.