The tried and tested 2286cc petrol engine went on forever, even if most of them leaked copious quantities of oil over the floor and weren’t the most frugal in the world. And the oil crisis of the early ’70 saw owners run to more economical diesel engine. Sadly the power was liking in the diesel that Land Rover offered and it wasn’t Ninety was launched that the diesels gained a reasonable performance. The performance gradually improved over the years, first with the turbo diesels, through the Tdi and Td5 and on the current TDCi engines, a derivative from ford’s Transit van.
It may not be a Land Rover unit, but it endows Land Rover‘s modern utility vehicle with a performance 1970s farmers could only have dreamed of. Mind you, they may have struggled to understand way you would need alloy wheels on a farm truck. Or carpet.
Take it one step further to the XS space and you’ll get the alloy wheels, carpet and even a heated front windscreen. And the heater even works. But that’s partly at the expense of the legendary opening front vents the main air conditioning option on Series Land Rovers and defenders of yore which are now history.
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