1997 Land Rover Defender Consumer Discussions

Land Rover Defender 90/110

Defender 90/110

Written by: mm450exc on Nov 28, 2005 11:41 AM

I just contacted Land Rover about the Defender 90/110. Here is the response. Thank you for contacting the Land Rover Customer Relationship Center. At this time Land Rover does not have any plans to re-introduce the Defender model into the United States. This vehicle requires several design and performance changes in order to be compliant with strict U.S. safety ... Read More...

Re: 1998 Defender -- Central America Truck [londnr]

Written by: dandrews1 on Aug 30, 2006 07:38 AM

I totally agree on the price point... it's a lot of money anywhere, but it is basically a new vehicle (VIN plate notwithstanding), that someone else has gone through the trouble of importing, converting to LHD, and detailing, etc, etc... Considering that I just started leasing an almost $75,000 (Canadian)LR3 HSE, if I was really into the hardcore offroading ... Read More...

cwilli58

Written by: tincup47 on Jun 17, 2001 08:20 PM

The Defender was discontinued in 1997 because it was thought to be too expensive by BMW to spend the money necessary to redesign the instrument cluster and add the electrics for Airbags. As Rover Group was causing huge losses at BMW this was a reasonable decision, as U.S. sales would not pay for the engineering and development costs. Bob Dover, President of Land ... Read More...

Defender

Written by: tincup47 on May 24, 2001 09:54 AM

in 1993 Range Rover North America brought in 500 D110's and changed their name to Land Rover North America, in anticipation of selling the Discovery here. 1994 saw the first year of D90 sales in the U.S. selling 1943 units. Sales continued in 1995 model year, 1190 Soft Top D90's and 510 Station wagons. 1996 was skipped as the factory was preparing the first clutchless ... Read More...