My mom had one of these when i was little, we had 70 minutes of road to get to school and 7 month of snow, so 110 minutes of road twice a day for 7 month/year, i was 8 and screwed like four planks between the back seats to make myself a bed (because getting up a 4 am kinda kills you at that age) and slept every school day in this on a bumpy road for a solid 8 years, now i'm 25 and i can sleep ANYWHERE, noise, light, smell, nothing disturbs me, thanks Defender for enriching my life ...
Top Gear made a millions US jokes that we laughed along with, Doug makes one good Defender joke and it's all "Nobody likes the colonies" with stern frowns and monocles.
David Pigbody becAuse we have some weird impression that Britain is hoity toity snoots with their large mustaches and monocle and top hats. Pretty much a British monopoly man
+dx2800 eerrrrrmm, The Land Rover was originally designed for agricultural use, being fitted with a PTO shaft, as well as general everyday use.... many farmers do use other brands like Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan, Ford or Isuzu, but many many still use the Land Rover. I myself have a 1978 Lightweight Land Rover which we have put a 1996 Defender 300TDi engine in, and although not finished yet, will be used as everyday vehicle and farm work, which is exactly what it was used for before the better engine upgrade. At the min though we use a late 1990s Ford Ranger as farm truck. Yeah loads of people modify the bollocks off the Defender, but so what? some of them use it for work, others for offroad trips etc, dont mean theyre arseholes
+steven mccart Series 1, 2, 2a, and 3. As well as 90-110/ defender were indeed worthy opponents to the jeep. However since none of them are no longer being produced...
The thing about the reliability is you need to factor in Gareth. Gareth is the deciding factor in any British car to as whether you'll have issues or not. If Gareth is feeling a bit ill one particular morning, every car that morning ends up like Doug's Range Rover... If Gareth has just had a nice cuppa, the 15 or 20 cars he oversees during this period of enlightenment will last forever.
@@androsgranados6962 Gareth is your unionised worker at Longbridge, look up 'Jeremy Clarksons car years - who killed the british motor industry' and you will get the drift!
Why are people so cross with Doug? He actually liked the car. Heck, this is a tribute to the British motoring industry. The verdict is, that this car is rubbish yet brilliant, which is a very accurate description of the British car industry. Lots of awful cars came out of it, but some were absolutely and undeniably brilliant, no matter how flawed they may be. This is a great example of such a car.
Vauxhall’s are the same but underrated, some not so good but many are icons of the British car industry, take the Vauxhall lotus Carlton or Astra GTE as examples
@@aidancullen6520 I know, we’re the only people in the world who have any sense of spelling or grammar. As well as having correct words such as boot and bonnet, instead of words such as trunk which is on an elephant not a car. A hood comes with your coat or hoodie, not your car.
Spent 17 years living, eating, sleeping and fighting with Land-rover defenders. Belize Jungle Canadian Rockies Iraqi Desert, and German Forests. Never let me down....
Doug is a master at getting channel views. I've watched hours and hours of his videos not because I like them, but because I've been trying to find one that doesn't make me cringe a little bit at the awkwardness and crappy humor. . . . I've only furthered the cause. Bravo Mr. DeMuro, you've won. I have subscribed.
I'm British and I'm not offended. The Defender by far is not for you if you want speed or luxury, it's a tough and rugged off-road compatible vehicle and takes balls to drive its very similar to the Jeep Wrangler in many ways. Both really cool vehicles tho!
All ways wanted a V8 defender but settled for the V8 disco here in UK I find this vid brill to watch an glad the spirt of the British 4x4 liked over seas
Part of the Defenders resale price shows how many of us want high-quality, long lasting, yet basic transportation. When I was a teen, my uncle in Denmark let me drive his 4cyl diesel Defender around his farm. Standard 4 speed, it was tough as nails. He regularly pulled his horse trailers across Europe. He also figured correctly that I couldn't break it, lol
This British person liked the video.... Never have I managed to work out exactly why these things go for so much money!! They really are nothing special, years ago I used to do a lot of fencing, tree work, clearance etc and we had one landrover which was a brilliant workhorse... But I decided I neede a rough old truck for work so I bought a 1992 swb diesel shogun for £600 ( 1000-1200 dollars ish?!) This did everything the landrover could do, had a better four wheel drive system, air con, adjustable suspension etc. Most importantly of all in the 3 years I had it I changed the starter motor and the alternator!! That was it...... The landrover was in bits at least once a month!!
The ones made in the US are the unreliable ones, the ones made here in the UK are extremely reliable, most of them around 25 yrs old and still running fine
@@monkeydui7241 I stand corrected in the way that they were not produced in the US of A but I still stand with my point that land rovers are very reliable as my Grandad owns a series 2 that is over 60yrs old and runs excellently to this day
Haha, Jeremy Clarkson and old Top Gear can get away with bashing on iconic American cars, but some American nobody gets disliked for making fun of an iconic British car. :D
+Raymond Soto maybe thats why i dont find a lot of british jokes funny, if theyre too funny, they will get offended, even if theres nothing to be offended about
Donny Donster Because most "iconic" American cars do not perform in the way they are designed to perform. They are slow, badly made, gas guzzling monsters. The defender, despite all its faults, was designed to be an off road car, and is listed to be one of the best off road cars on the planet. It's not designed to be cool or comfortable or fast. It goes anywhere and does anything. Just how it was designed.
+Samlawts When I think iconic American cars, I think Mustang, Corvette, Ford GT, Viper, and Camaro, all of which are great at what they were built for and certainly not slow. And if you're going to defend the Defender, you can't knock other cars for reliability.
+Ferruzzicati yep so successful that they recently stopped production of all defenders. It looks like they have finally realised that they are absolute shite.
@@j_freed no its true man. We always get the shitty stuff. For instance, we never get diesels... neither LR nor Toyota gave us any diesels... Fuk that.
As an Englishman and Landrover owner, I must say that your video is spot on. All the negativity must be from the 3 other countries that make up Britain. And what do they know.
As owned in the UK by farmers and the ministry of defence. Built to be robust with few moving parts. Never had reliability problems myself, and they are incredible off road.
That's such a bad Defender, the one we have cost £7,000, has done 110,000 miles and hasn't broken down, it's pulled tractors, and trailers filled with hay, I love defenders but perhaps we just got lucky.
You didn't get lucky, that car is just getting started. Defenders are absolute fucking tanks and will last you a lifetime with few problems. It is common to see a defender close to 300,000 miles in the UK. I've even see an 80's defender with 620,000 miles on the clock, only went through 2 engines.
Those are the 200, 300 & TD5 diesel engines I suppose? Those Defender V8's aren't known for their reliability. In the USA only the V8's came to the country as far as I know
70k for a defender? Here in UK they can be found as cheap as £5k or less, and usually these are very very reliable cars, providing you avoid automatic gearbox and the ford engines
Are you kidding me? Are British people really pissed off at this sarcastic video. Do you realize how absurdly overpriced a defender is for $70k? Objectively it's an atrocious vehicle for that amount of money, and a 4Runner would be far superior in every way for $40k. I always thought the British had a sense of humour, not with their precious defender apparently...
You can get a $4K 4runner that is far superior offroad to the $40K oversized automatic modern 4runner and this $70K defender (I had a friend with one of those who wouldn't take it offroad for fear of scratching it!). Expensive off-road rigs are poor investments.
I wish people would stop comparing the defender to other cars, it isnt a car, its an offroad machine. Its by far the best offroad vehicle ever made and people wont realise that till they take it to impossible places. Power, electronics and flashy rims doesnt make a car good offroad 10 gears and diff lock does. I am uet to find a car that can compete offroad.
Hold on... $70K??? I am starting a business importing these from the UK to the US immediately. I’ve seen these for around $3-10K in better condition than the one Doug reviewed. These are everywhere in England...
The US spec defenders have lost of benefits, it’s newer that 25, it has air con, soft top, lower production, v8 engines with automatic, and they weren’t used as utility vehicles for 25 years until you imported it
I have never left a dislike on a video before now. While all your points about it are valid, you have utterly missed the actual reason anyone would ever own a Defender: its off-road prowess. The Defender was build to be a go anywhere vehicle, and thankfully, the majority of them ended up becoming dependable workhorses, used by people who relied on them day in and day out. They were designed to collect sheep off hillsides, carry camera-men across Africa, operate at insane perpendicular angles of up to 30° and they are even still used today by the UK military. They were NOT made to be driven around suburbia by posers like yourself who think they look cool! If anything, your conclusion is the exact reason you should not own a Defender...
You are talking of a beat up Landy, you'd buy in UK or Cyprus or in Africa. No one in their right mind would buy a 20 year old Landy for 70 grand! I'd go for diesel Range Rover instead. Hell, with that kind of money you'd buy a used Land Cruiser (shorter version) and rebuild it with off-road aftermarket parts into a tank!
+I Rob Banks Exactly, it's like doing a review on a retired military HMMWV and coming to the conclusion that everything about it sucks, but it's good because it's just cool.
+tomcornwall83 Loads for sale in the UK for exactly that (and less) right now. You would have had to have gone through several generations of inbreeding to pay $70K for one.....
Yes, we don't care what people think. Having fun everywhere I go, pictures, comments, stories, lol. I'm ported mine and it will stay with me forever. Great review, all so true.
+Fadzli Faudzi Initially it got about 80-100K views, like most of my videos do. Then some British website picked it up and a LOT of British people came in here and got REALLY mad, hence all the dislikes (and all the views). With the sudden increase in traffic UA-cam picked it up and put it on a lot of feeds, and that's where it stands now. I truly expected nobody to watch or care about this video. I was clearly mistaken.
+GraveUypo Hah! It wasn't even intended to be clickbait. I mean, I don't think I said anything really groundbreaking here. But when you insult a British institution...
+Doug DeMuro You're right. British people here hold the Land Rover with the highest regard when it really never deserved it. Although, the Defender you are criticizing here is US spec, and we all know that US spec European cars are shit. They ALL are.
Calling the Defender an SUV is an insult. It's one of the most capable off-road vehicles of all time, not an SUV. It wasn't designed for commuting or family car use. It was designed for crossing deserts and crawling through forests. It's used by the military in several countries.
Great review. I loved the defender even though I drove a late model version which was better, it was still a utilitarian off road vehicle. It went places few could. On road it was hard work to drive and slow but it always had a little sparkle to it!!
I have owned defenders for upwards of 18 years. having more than one at the same time. I would love to have another one now. Yes, they are slow, water runs down the pedals and fills up the drivers shoes etc. but I still love them. With a wading kit they can go through very, very deep water. That is fun. Being awful is part of their character, and it is character that counts.
One of your better videos, dying laughing right now. Had dinner with David last night, but he was driving his Fire Marshall Bill special, not quite as cool as the Defender.
+Doug DeMuro I wish I could just go buy all the cars all the time! The strobes are still inside the turn signals, I suggested he hook them back up immediately.
Look again, prices have been steadily increasing globally since the end of production. I could sell my MY16 110 tomorrow for $15k more than I paid for it, but I won't because I love it more than anything.
With regard to reliability, I've had my Td5 for 12 years since new, and had no reliability problems with it. Service them regularly and drive responsibly, and they'll last for ever.
I love a trooper, I had a trooper 2 and it was absolutely a fun drive because you had no worries about hurtin that thing, I’ve gone places in that, that people in jeeps and big diesel trucks got stuck in here in Wyoming, I now own a 1987 Jeep Cherokee and it had the trooper feel not as tall and more powerful, only thing I really liked about the trooper was height and clearance
You'd need one, knowing Land Rover. Your only option for that is probably CarMax, but with CarMax with CarMax the warranty is usually only up to 6 years/100,000 - 125,000 miles. If only CarMax offered unlimited mileage warranties. *long dialog alert* Bobby CarMax: Wassup my homie? Johnny Bob CarMax: I have to tell you something about this guy named, uh, Steve DeDefender? Dodge Banana?George DeQuarterPanel? No...Doug Defender? Steve Jobs? John DeMuro. Wait..Doug DeMuro! BC: Didn't he buy the Aston with the warranty (not from us) and the Range Rover from us that keeps breaking? JBC: Yeah, no, wasn't it John DeDefenderRestorer? Wait, it was Doug DeMuro. BC: What about that Truck DeTrailer guy? JBC: Doug DeMuro. Anyways, I heard he burrowed a friend's Land Rover Defender. BC: God...did he look for one on our site? JBC: Who knows... BC: We gotta make sure he doesn't come buy 50 Defenders with warranties. We'll go bankrupt within a week. And it's bad for Doug DeDefender too, because then we can't fix his '06 Range Rover. GO! LOCK THE DOORS! Doug: (thinking) I see 516 Defenders from CarMax nationwide. I'll have them ship them all to my local CarMax (note: I don't know where Doug's local CarMax is) and I'll buy them all! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!! JBC: I see him coming, I locked the doors thank god. BC: Wait, he has a...a...a...a, uh, a box...he just broke the darn glass. JBC: **activates alarms** Everybody! The building is on lockdown! Everybody stay put! Doug DeMuro came in! Doug: I didn't actually want to buy 516 Defenders. JBC and BC: Thank god. Doug: But... JBC and BC: For crying out load. Doug: I need my air suspension repaired. JBC and BC: Call the police!
Having owned an Isuzu Trooper, I can't say why the Defender went up in value, but I am in no doubt as to why the Trooper is worth $80 and a crack rock...
Don’t be upset with his review of the D90, he speaks the truth & absolutely nails it in his summary- “Defender people; they don’t really care what you think.” We REALLY don’t 😁 You’re awesome Doug, I’m still a huge fan & still own one of these glorious old pain in the ass vehicles- lol
The DEFENDER as named is a military spec vehicle. It's squaddy proof . Built to last not for comfort or speed. In the UK you regularly see farmers with 40 year old landies doin the rounds. Typical Murkins .
i am not sure what these guys are on about.....What they fail to acknowledge is that it is amazing off-road. reliability? defender is amazingly reliable - the vast majority ever made are STILL on the road decades and decades later. They are easy to repair and they are basic because they are military and agricultural hardware..... They are classless (in a good way), a social leveller. even the Queen of the United Kingdom kicks about in one. This review is sooooo off the mark.
+Doug DeMuro Doug is right. hiddencityphila.org/2013/07/planning-the-future-of-philadelphias-other-big-ship/ Just kidding. But here's a nice writeup on it.
Yep, it's the -G Wagen- I mean the -Land Cruiser- oh, oops, I meant to say the -Wrangler- er umm the Defender, made proudly in England, the country known most for build quality and reliability
@@nicholasw.3488 if this is an insult you are an idiot, just look at the crap that’s made by cunts in America. V8s in pickups is the most polluting, inefficient and expensive way of making it move, in England, people carriers (minivans) get around with 1.8l petrol engines and yet still flat out beat a Chrysler with a 3 litre v6.
@@nicholasw.3488 I have had plenty of cars and bikes for 40 years any LR still have my undying gratitude for stamina and longevity. I currently run a 1996 Discovery and I will drive it to the day I die . Not too soon I hope!
Defender people absolutely care what you think. That's why it has to look cool. For that price and all you things you don't get, they have to "claim" not to care. Because it's part of the "looking cool" aspect.
Jeep people don't really care that you have a defender. It's cool but I don't think it's cooler than a Jeep. It's just a rare vehicle in the US, and that is the only it has going for it.
I laugh at slow overpriced Jeeps struggling along at 10mph over 'rough' terrain as a blaze by them in my Pinzgauer 710K at 3x their speed. Defender? I never see those off road... too spendy.
There is one olive green 110 in my town and I swear to god if I mounted green tube on the roof I would fool someone to think that it is a tank. That thing is a beast! I want it so much :(
I'm embarrassed about some of the comments on here by folks from the UK...I live in the UK and have a Defender and personally found the video funny...my Defender is slow, isn't particularly comfortable and doesn't have AC...but I will never sell it and it puts a smile on my face every time I drive it. I'm glad it does the same for you. If you've got a pic of yours it would be great to see it. I have a 2001 Defender 110 double cab (which I doubt you ever had in the US). It was a special edition built for the Tomb Raider movie and there are now only 60 or so of them left.
@@anthonykaiser974 do you mean a bit like one of these? goo.gl/images/BK3VSE Not an anti-tank missile carrier per se but an anti tank gun (howitzer?). Doesnt that count? There's not much that hasn't been strapped, bolted, welded or fabricobbled onto Defenders over the years and it can cope with just about anything you throw on it.
Hi there. I'm from Australia and owned my 1985 County 110 for 21 years. Its never let me down in any serious way. Over the years I've been adding the odd upgrades as its like playing with mechano. First years of ownership I upgraded the radiator, altinator and installed a engine oil cooler to cope with high temperatures. Then installed dif locks, long travel suspension and heavy drive members/axels. Recently I got a fairey overdrive and that's going in soon. Installed a hot water shower heat exchanger with pump. Its one of the most fun 4x4 cars to drive. She's got the 3.5 v8 in it with LPG installed. Without it would be too expensive to run every day.
Greg Pitts Either that or a series 3 from the 70s, classic or modern, but I wouldn't go near the mid 90s one in the video, totally the wrong era of Land Rover for me.
+Alfred Munkenbeck we've had a series two and a series 3 and they didnt realy compare to the td5 the 2.25 engines are gutless and barely move it allthough the series are worth alot more and are more iconic id rather stick to my td5
Greg Pitts I know what you mean, I've driven both, but I've got something else for proper driving, the Land Rover would just be for a bit of fun. If that weren't the case though, some of the late Defenders are properly useable things day to day, I'd get one of them easily.
in england, theyre mainly used by farmers and those who live in villages and rural areas. without shiny paint, nice interiors and good off-roading, theyre a versatile machine. Of course, they hold their value too so a stone hitting it or a brush from a bush wont require it going into a garage from an insurance jobby. On roads, cities, towns, america, their price doesnt do it justice. In england; cornwall, devon, theyre loved.
The real question should be "Why are Americans so stupid to pay $70.000 for a 20 year old defender" and the answer is because its like owning a unicorn in the states.Btw the basic design is over 60 years old,So basically Doug is judging a 60 year old design on modern standards and calling it shit.
The sneer when he says 180 bhp. If only the car culture in the US wasn't predicated on only liking cars with engines that have power outputs similar to a power station, or the fuel economy of a bus, then maybe the air quality might be better, or the drain on resources not as high.
This is one dumb vehicle, in Kenya they're scattered all over the country after the government dumped them in 2003. But the thing can go through a horrific accident and come out unscathed, though we can't say the same about its passagers.
My mom had one of these when i was little, we had 70 minutes of road to get to school and 7 month of snow, so 110 minutes of road twice a day for 7 month/year, i was 8 and screwed like four planks between the back seats to make myself a bed (because getting up a 4 am kinda kills you at that age) and slept every school day in this on a bumpy road for a solid 8 years, now i'm 25 and i can sleep ANYWHERE, noise, light, smell, nothing disturbs me, thanks Defender for enriching my life ...
That's worth twice the price right there,a cure for insomnia! Plus you get to sleep in a really cool car!
My father's defender caught on fire, and for lack of better phrasing; "exploded". Insurance gave him 25k more than what he paid for it 10 years ago.
I should buy a Defender, but I'm like $65k short
At least he didnt get a Jeep ;)
+Tomahawk Studios if he was smart he would've got a Jeep
You mispelled Toyota
You misspelled Mercedes G-Class.
$70,000...you could buy almost 2 rural congressional seats!
+Matthew Klingsberg Hah!!!
+Matthew Klingsberg Or a new 2 door Jeep Wrangler & 1 rural congressional seat!
lol very good!
+Matthew Klingsberg My boss bought one for 6000 euros last month.
+R TE A rural congressional seat?
4:14 I started laughing before he did😂😂
The hate on this video is absolute insanity
Street Speed 717 can u buy a ps4?
Was he wrong??
*HI MIKE HELLO*
Those are all Jeep owners.
I hate u
Top Gear made a millions US jokes that we laughed along with, Doug makes one good Defender joke and it's all "Nobody likes the colonies" with stern frowns and monocles.
Whalerguy lmao monocles
David Pigbody becAuse we have some weird impression that Britain is hoity toity snoots with their large mustaches and monocle and top hats. Pretty much a British monopoly man
"Today you can pick one up on Craigslist for eighty bucks and a crack rock." OMG LMAO!!!! :)
Just did it and sold the crack rock for $81, got my money back, the car and most importantly $1
Never been worth a crackrock its iconic its priceless
I'm British - this is funny, because it's all true.
İt's funny and true in American too...
urbanturbine You had to ruin the party.. 😒
Emmanuel Grocon - like you ever even left the USA, ya dork.
So ignorant.
Ehhhh partially. We got a far wider variety of Defenders here. Not that what he's saying isn't true but some of it doesn't apply to all Defenders.
Thier idols perish In a day. Christ for me
He completely missed that the Defender is an old army design that hasn't been much changed for the civilian market.
Yep.
And what do you think the jeep is? CJ stands for civilian jeep, and I'm not a jeep guy
+Alex462047 It was actually designed to be a farm vehicle after WW2 and was later adapted by the UK military.
+Alex462047 I guess the British military got stranded alot, then.
+James Bigglesworth the Wolf is a Mercedes G Model... (actually, the G is the civilian version of the Wolf)
80 bucks and a crack rock 😂😂😂😂
Jmoney 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jmoney funny as !
love all the british people that disliked because they didn't see he actually liked the car
Lol
+dx2800 eerrrrrmm, The Land Rover was originally designed for agricultural use, being fitted with a PTO shaft, as well as general everyday use.... many farmers do use other brands like Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan, Ford or Isuzu, but many many still use the Land Rover. I myself have a 1978 Lightweight Land Rover which we have put a 1996 Defender 300TDi engine in, and although not finished yet, will be used as everyday vehicle and farm work, which is exactly what it was used for before the better engine upgrade. At the min though we use a late 1990s Ford Ranger as farm truck.
Yeah loads of people modify the bollocks off the Defender, but so what? some of them use it for work, others for offroad trips etc, dont mean theyre arseholes
***** point taken. but not all Landy drivers are twats... just those types, and even then not all ones who rack up theyre trucks are like it
+dx2800 You Talk Shit.
+steven mccart Series 1, 2, 2a, and 3. As well as 90-110/ defender were indeed worthy opponents to the jeep. However since none of them are no longer being produced...
The thing about the reliability is you need to factor in Gareth. Gareth is the deciding factor in any British car to as whether you'll have issues or not. If Gareth is feeling a bit ill one particular morning, every car that morning ends up like Doug's Range Rover... If Gareth has just had a nice cuppa, the 15 or 20 cars he oversees during this period of enlightenment will last forever.
Reddsoldier As a Gareth, I can only agree.
Who is Gareth?
@@androsgranados6962 Gareth is your unionised worker at Longbridge, look up 'Jeremy Clarksons car years - who killed the british motor industry' and you will get the drift!
@@Garethprice1979 lmao
The defender is a very reliable vehicle, providing you dont get the automatic gearbox
Why are people so cross with Doug? He actually liked the car. Heck, this is a tribute to the British motoring industry. The verdict is, that this car is rubbish yet brilliant, which is a very accurate description of the British car industry. Lots of awful cars came out of it, but some were absolutely and undeniably brilliant, no matter how flawed they may be. This is a great example of such a car.
appelpower1 HEAR HEAR!!!
Well its quite simple. They didnt actually watch the video. They just saw doug and listened for a minute or two then commented
appelpower1 based on your vocabulary you are 100% British. Good job mate. You passed the test.
Vauxhall’s are the same but underrated, some not so good but many are icons of the British car industry, take the Vauxhall lotus Carlton or Astra GTE as examples
@@aidancullen6520 I know, we’re the only people in the world who have any sense of spelling or grammar. As well as having correct words such as boot and bonnet, instead of words such as trunk which is on an elephant not a car. A hood comes with your coat or hoodie, not your car.
Spent 17 years living, eating, sleeping and fighting with Land-rover defenders. Belize Jungle Canadian Rockies Iraqi Desert, and German Forests. Never let me down....
Doug is a master at getting channel views. I've watched hours and hours of his videos not because I like them, but because I've been trying to find one that doesn't make me cringe a little bit at the awkwardness and crappy humor. . . . I've only furthered the cause.
Bravo Mr. DeMuro, you've won.
I have subscribed.
I'm British and I'm not offended. The Defender by far is not for you if you want speed or luxury, it's a tough and rugged off-road compatible vehicle and takes balls to drive its very similar to the Jeep Wrangler in many ways. Both really cool vehicles tho!
All ways wanted a V8 defender but settled for the V8 disco here in UK I find this vid brill to watch an glad the spirt of the British 4x4 liked over seas
Almost similar to what the Maruti Suzuki Gypsy and Mahindra Jeep is for us Indians
Part of the Defenders resale price shows how many of us want high-quality, long lasting, yet basic transportation.
When I was a teen, my uncle in Denmark let me drive his 4cyl diesel Defender around his farm. Standard 4 speed, it was tough as nails. He regularly pulled his horse trailers across Europe. He also figured correctly that I couldn't break it, lol
$80 bucks and a crack rock for a Trooper? You're gettin' ripped off, Doug.
5,000 British people saw this video
+Nick Only 5000 angry Brits, I personally loved this video and I own a defender XD
This British person liked the video.... Never have I managed to work out exactly why these things go for so much money!!
They really are nothing special, years ago I used to do a lot of fencing, tree work, clearance etc and we had one landrover which was a brilliant workhorse... But I decided I neede a rough old truck for work so I bought a 1992 swb diesel shogun for £600 ( 1000-1200 dollars ish?!)
This did everything the landrover could do, had a better four wheel drive system, air con, adjustable suspension etc.
Most importantly of all in the 3 years I had it I changed the starter motor and the alternator!!
That was it......
The landrover was in bits at least once a month!!
Gill Bates I'm British and I live this Vids
Gill Bates Cup of tea mate.
Laughing hard when the "reliability" part came on @4:14 : )
The ones made in the US are the unreliable ones, the ones made here in the UK are extremely reliable, most of them around 25 yrs old and still running fine
@Ask Computers OFFICIAL I don’t think they were ever made in the US were they?
@@monkeydui7241 I stand corrected in the way that they were not produced in the US of A but I still stand with my point that land rovers are very reliable as my Grandad owns a series 2 that is over 60yrs old and runs excellently to this day
i live in the uk, own a defender 90, owned it for 7 years and not a single thing has gone wrong with it, i could depend on it more than my own heart.
Haha, Jeremy Clarkson and old Top Gear can get away with bashing on iconic American cars, but some American nobody gets disliked for making fun of an iconic British car. :D
+Donny Donster The British can't take jokes.
+Raymond Soto maybe thats why i dont find a lot of british jokes funny, if theyre too funny, they will get offended, even if theres nothing to be offended about
+Raymond Soto I think you meant "The British can't take the truth"
Donny Donster Because most "iconic" American cars do not perform in the way they are designed to perform. They are slow, badly made, gas guzzling monsters.
The defender, despite all its faults, was designed to be an off road car, and is listed to be one of the best off road cars on the planet. It's not designed to be cool or comfortable or fast. It goes anywhere and does anything. Just how it was designed.
+Samlawts
When I think iconic American cars, I think Mustang, Corvette, Ford GT, Viper, and Camaro, all of which are great at what they were built for and certainly not slow.
And if you're going to defend the Defender, you can't knock other cars for reliability.
So basically, this video could have been 30 seconds long
Why is he parked under an Aircraft Carrier.
why not?
To make his nose look smaller
Same turning circle as the Landy
It’s cool that’s why
The_ Muffin_Man lol 😂😂😂
Which is why I'd rather have a 1997 Jeep instead of a 1997 Land Rover.
So its a offroad Delorean^^
lol
+FullFledged2010 you've heard the term "going nowhere fast"? this is going nowhere slowly....
+Ferruzzicati yep so successful that they recently stopped production of all defenders. It looks like they have finally realised that they are absolute shite.
They are making a new defender in the next couple of years
+Ferruzzicati A 911 today isn't exactly overpriced nor unreliably ;)
The USA got the short straw when it comes to the defender.
And...
Why, oh why doesn't the world cater to Thuh America...
It’s so sad but my mom got one and I’ve used it on 5 trials in the past 3 months it’s awesome
@@j_freed no its true man. We always get the shitty stuff. For instance, we never get diesels... neither LR nor Toyota gave us any diesels... Fuk that.
As an Englishman and Landrover owner, I must say that your video is spot on.
All the negativity must be from the 3 other countries that make up Britain.
And what do they know.
Because it's cool!!
i agree with you but it’s not my dream car i like smart car
Wow never thought I'd find a comment from Street speed 5 years ago
@@PoptartMcNuggies Well you found it!
For $70,000 does it come with an UNLIMITED MILEAGE BUMPER TO BUMPER FACTORY WARRANTY?
+Mopar And More ... it comes with its own trunk monkey mechanic lolz
As owned in the UK by farmers and the ministry of defence.
Built to be robust with few moving parts.
Never had reliability problems myself, and they are incredible off road.
I'm British and I laughed so hard, tea went up my nose.
That's the USS John F Kennedy. Aircraft carrier. I served on it. It's docked in Philadelphia.
+jesse foulk thanks, I was asking myself; where is that?
Jesus... that ship in the back is HUGE!!!
+Arrtus TV Carrier from the looks of it. Can't tell which one though. Definitely not in active commission.
+citadelpariah Yep, USS. John F. Kennedy
Last sentence, spot on mate. We dont care what you think.
That's such a bad Defender, the one we have cost £7,000, has done 110,000 miles and hasn't broken down, it's pulled tractors, and trailers filled with hay, I love defenders but perhaps we just got lucky.
You didn't get lucky, that car is just getting started. Defenders are absolute fucking tanks and will last you a lifetime with few problems. It is common to see a defender close to 300,000 miles in the UK. I've even see an 80's defender with 620,000 miles on the clock, only went through 2 engines.
Ross Putman Yeah, i can't understand the hate for them.
The defender is a fucking beast
Your boy Pettis hasn't been lucky as of late though.
Those are the 200, 300 & TD5 diesel engines I suppose? Those Defender V8's aren't known for their reliability. In the USA only the V8's came to the country as far as I know
It must be worth 70k for the bumper to bumper warranty. right ?
I'm more curious about how that ship in the back stays upright...
+Pheer777 Physics
me too lol
+Pheer777 'Murica! That's how.
buoyancy
I thought she was a singer
I love 'em. And they ARE good across rough terrain. And because they're NOT full of unnecessary stuff, you can fix 'em simply.
That's great because they are always broken. The parts are only going to be available in the uk, they just aren't available anywhere else.
70k for a defender? Here in UK they can be found as cheap as £5k or less, and usually these are very very reliable cars, providing you avoid automatic gearbox and the ford engines
Are you kidding me? Are British people really pissed off at this sarcastic video. Do you realize how absurdly overpriced a defender is for $70k? Objectively it's an atrocious vehicle for that amount of money, and a 4Runner would be far superior in every way for $40k. I always thought the British had a sense of humour, not with their precious defender apparently...
You can get a $4K 4runner that is far superior offroad to the $40K oversized automatic modern 4runner and this $70K defender (I had a friend with one of those who wouldn't take it offroad for fear of scratching it!). Expensive off-road rigs are poor investments.
its 70k used and in the us it would hold its value indefinetely
those defenders do have lockers though, kudos to them, wont find that on any stock 4runner, plus it has solid axles
Are you guys serious? The Defender has earned it's reputation for being unbeatable off-road
I wish people would stop comparing the defender to other cars, it isnt a car, its an offroad machine. Its by far the best offroad vehicle ever made and people wont realise that till they take it to impossible places. Power, electronics and flashy rims doesnt make a car good offroad
10 gears and diff lock does. I am uet to find a car that can compete offroad.
Wow they're expensive in the states! You can get a pretty nice one here in the UK for £5,000. :)
+TheCarGuy18 was about to say, they're absolutely everywhere
+Bad Santa Funny that because in the UK Australia isn't highly regarded.;)
+TheCarGuy18 business opportunity
+TheCarGuy18 $59000 in Canada for 97-99 years.
Why's everyone so mad? Did any of you watch the entire video?
i think they missed that he actually likes the car
well they do need watch it to know the main anger
Jeep owners are a surly bunch.
Hold on... $70K??? I am starting a business importing these from the UK to the US immediately. I’ve seen these for around $3-10K in better condition than the one Doug reviewed. These are everywhere in England...
The US spec defenders have lost of benefits, it’s newer that 25, it has air con, soft top, lower production, v8 engines with automatic, and they weren’t used as utility vehicles for 25 years until you imported it
Uk defenders are still cheap lol it's only us spec defenders that are $70k
I have never left a dislike on a video before now.
While all your points about it are valid, you have utterly missed the actual reason anyone would ever own a Defender: its off-road prowess.
The Defender was build to be a go anywhere vehicle, and thankfully, the majority of them ended up becoming dependable workhorses, used by people who relied on them day in and day out. They were designed to collect sheep off hillsides, carry camera-men across Africa, operate at insane perpendicular angles of up to 30° and they are even still used today by the UK military.
They were NOT made to be driven around suburbia by posers like yourself who think they look cool!
If anything, your conclusion is the exact reason you should not own a Defender...
Amen
You are talking of a beat up Landy, you'd buy in UK or Cyprus or in Africa. No one in their right mind would buy a 20 year old Landy for 70 grand! I'd go for diesel Range Rover instead.
Hell, with that kind of money you'd buy a used Land Cruiser (shorter version) and rebuild it with off-road aftermarket parts into a tank!
Um you could just buy a jeep wrangler though I don't see your point. If you need to get somewhere remote of road it isn't practical to spend so much
+I Rob Banks
Exactly, it's like doing a review on a retired military HMMWV and coming to the conclusion that everything about it sucks, but it's good because it's just cool.
Wrong. They have no prowess. With no torque and horsepower you just can't have an off road vehicle that's worth a flip. Sorry.
These were made for farmers in the UK they're not meant to be luxury cars. Why you would pay that much for them in the US i will never understand.
+Fraser Hughes Murica
+Fraser Hughes because 50% of this country is retarded.
+Fraser Hughes That Landy would be what? £8k to £10k in the UK?
+tomcornwall83 Time to start buying them up and exporting them to the U.S :o
+tomcornwall83 Loads for sale in the UK for exactly that (and less) right now. You would have had to have gone through several generations of inbreeding to pay $70K for one.....
All of the salt the English have towards this video was keepover from the Indian salt crisis.
+Michael Tarantino what a stupid thing to say
+Andrew Phillips you can say that again
+Andrew Phillips Indeed.
It's satire. Get over it.
Gold! XD
Yes, we don't care what people think. Having fun everywhere I go, pictures, comments, stories, lol. I'm ported mine and it will stay with me forever. Great review, all so true.
Reliability? *hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahha!*
All is depending the model.
How does this video get so many views in just over a week?
+Fadzli Faudzi Initially it got about 80-100K views, like most of my videos do. Then some British website picked it up and a LOT of British people came in here and got REALLY mad, hence all the dislikes (and all the views). With the sudden increase in traffic UA-cam picked it up and put it on a lot of feeds, and that's where it stands now. I truly expected nobody to watch or care about this video. I was clearly mistaken.
+Doug DeMuro you hit a nerve there. that's good clickbait
+Doug DeMuro do you know which website it was? they seem to have sent a lot of angry people but its ok because they leave funny comments
+GraveUypo Hah! It wasn't even intended to be clickbait. I mean, I don't think I said anything really groundbreaking here. But when you insult a British institution...
+Doug DeMuro You're right. British people here hold the Land Rover with the highest regard when it really never deserved it. Although, the Defender you are criticizing here is US spec, and we all know that US spec European cars are shit. They ALL are.
Calling the Defender an SUV is an insult. It's one of the most capable off-road vehicles of all time, not an SUV. It wasn't designed for commuting or family car use. It was designed for crossing deserts and crawling through forests. It's used by the military in several countries.
Great review. I loved the defender even though I drove a late model version which was better, it was still a utilitarian off road vehicle. It went places few could. On road it was hard work to drive and slow but it always had a little sparkle to it!!
I have owned defenders for upwards of 18 years. having more than one at the same time. I would love to have another one now. Yes, they are slow, water runs down the pedals and fills up the drivers shoes etc. but I still love them.
With a wading kit they can go through very, very deep water. That is fun. Being awful is part of their character, and it is character that counts.
One of your better videos, dying laughing right now. Had dinner with David last night, but he was driving his Fire Marshall Bill special, not quite as cool as the Defender.
+John Winstead I'm jealous you got to check it out! I want to do a video on basically every car he has ever owned, bought, driven, Instagrammed, etc.
+Doug DeMuro I wish I could just go buy all the cars all the time! The strobes are still inside the turn signals, I suggested he hook them back up immediately.
+Doug DeMuro Funny video Doug! :)
Good job Doug.....ya got humorless Brits yapping like Yorkies. Hilarious.
Ok i lost it when he laughed at the reliability lol. I like this guy's reviews, i subscribed....
Now you can pick one up for 80 bucks and a crack rock
It costs around one tenth of the price here in Australia
in europe too
in europe too
Look again, prices have been steadily increasing globally since the end of production. I could sell my MY16 110 tomorrow for $15k more than I paid for it, but I won't because I love it more than anything.
In Costa Rica you can pick one with $10.000 and a good example with $15.000.
you can buy a car in much better condition than the car in the video in the UK for £5,000 xD
With regard to reliability, I've had my Td5 for 12 years since new, and had no reliability problems with it.
Service them regularly and drive responsibly, and they'll last for ever.
proud isuzu trooper driver here
I'm sure your vehicle was worth every bit of $80 and a crack rock! lol
Can't beat a Trooper,F**k this guy...,,
I love a trooper, I had a trooper 2 and it was absolutely a fun drive because you had no worries about hurtin that thing, I’ve gone places in that, that people in jeeps and big diesel trucks got stuck in here in Wyoming, I now own a 1987 Jeep Cherokee and it had the trooper feel not as tall and more powerful, only thing I really liked about the trooper was height and clearance
acura SLX over here
But does it come with unlimited mileage bumper to bumper warranty?
You'd need one, knowing Land Rover. Your only option for that is probably CarMax, but with CarMax with CarMax the warranty is usually only up to 6 years/100,000 - 125,000 miles. If only CarMax offered unlimited mileage warranties.
*long dialog alert*
Bobby CarMax: Wassup my homie?
Johnny Bob CarMax: I have to tell you something about this guy named, uh, Steve DeDefender? Dodge Banana?George DeQuarterPanel? No...Doug Defender? Steve Jobs? John DeMuro. Wait..Doug DeMuro!
BC: Didn't he buy the Aston with the warranty (not from us) and the Range Rover from us that keeps breaking?
JBC: Yeah, no, wasn't it John DeDefenderRestorer? Wait, it was Doug DeMuro.
BC: What about that Truck DeTrailer guy?
JBC: Doug DeMuro. Anyways, I heard he burrowed a friend's Land Rover Defender.
BC: God...did he look for one on our site?
JBC: Who knows...
BC: We gotta make sure he doesn't come buy 50 Defenders with warranties. We'll go bankrupt within a week. And it's bad for Doug DeDefender too, because then we can't fix his '06 Range Rover. GO! LOCK THE DOORS!
Doug: (thinking) I see 516 Defenders from CarMax nationwide. I'll have them ship them all to my local CarMax (note: I don't know where Doug's local CarMax is) and I'll buy them all! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!
JBC: I see him coming, I locked the doors thank god.
BC: Wait, he has a...a...a...a, uh, a box...he just broke the darn glass.
JBC: **activates alarms** Everybody! The building is on lockdown! Everybody stay put! Doug DeMuro came in!
Doug: I didn't actually want to buy 516 Defenders.
JBC and BC: Thank god.
Doug: But...
JBC and BC: For crying out load.
Doug: I need my air suspension repaired.
JBC and BC: Call the police!
cost $70,000 . worth $70,000 ? NO
+DENMONKEY If its not SCOTTISH its CRAP!!!
I don't know how to respond to that :) U Do It Contracting
His laugh sounds like the one by mike posner in the beginning of I took a pill in Ibiza seeb remix
Doug’s reviews have evolved over the years. I miss the over the top humor.
Why do they go for so much? 3:45 ...that sound. That's why.
Having owned an Isuzu Trooper, I can't say why the Defender went up in value, but I am in no doubt as to why the Trooper is worth $80 and a crack rock...
It's the fact u can fix this car with a hammer and a wrench on a muddy field that makes this car so valuable
funny I can just drive my jeep through a muddy field with out fixing it.
Im here from 2023, the genius of doug is that his videos age like fone wine
Don’t be upset with his review of the D90, he speaks the truth & absolutely nails it in his summary- “Defender people; they don’t really care what you think.” We REALLY don’t 😁
You’re awesome Doug, I’m still a huge fan & still own one of these glorious old pain in the ass vehicles- lol
The DEFENDER as named is a military spec vehicle. It's squaddy proof . Built to last not for comfort or speed. In the UK you regularly see farmers with 40 year old landies doin the rounds. Typical Murkins .
i am not sure what these guys are on about.....What they fail to acknowledge is that it is amazing off-road. reliability? defender is amazingly reliable - the vast majority ever made are STILL on the road decades and decades later. They are easy to repair and they are basic because they are military and agricultural hardware..... They are classless (in a good way), a social leveller. even the Queen of the United Kingdom kicks about in one. This review is sooooo off the mark.
Little did Doug know that this would be his car someday
Or just buy a UAZ Hunter.
Haha.....
If it's not more expensive - it does not cut it.
+Ian A. Nah Snatch Land Rover 2A Armoured defender 110 is where its at
The only way to stay safe in america with all the gun violence.
+toby Hogan CAV - Composite Armoured Vehicle... A nice V8 petrol engine.... Top heavy...
A wolf is much better.
Or get shotgun, my car didn't put down home invader at 4am
I just wanna know which aircraft carrier that is
+still_guns It's the USS John F Kennedy:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_F._Kennedy_(CV-67)
+still_guns U.S.S. Forrestal?
+Doug DeMuro Doug is right. hiddencityphila.org/2013/07/planning-the-future-of-philadelphias-other-big-ship/ Just kidding. But here's a nice writeup on it.
quite simply the best vehicle ever built
*worst* your comment was broken, no worries though, I fixed it.
The best off-roader in history, proudly made here in England 🏴
Yep, it's the -G Wagen- I mean the -Land Cruiser- oh, oops, I meant to say the -Wrangler- er umm the Defender, made proudly in England, the country known most for build quality and reliability
@@nicholasw.3488 if this is an insult you are an idiot, just look at the crap that’s made by cunts in America. V8s in pickups is the most polluting, inefficient and expensive way of making it move, in England, people carriers (minivans) get around with 1.8l petrol engines and yet still flat out beat a Chrysler with a 3 litre v6.
@@nicholasw.3488 Also, I have G-Wagens, the word ‘wagOn’ is spelt with an o not an e
@@nicholasw.3488 I have had plenty of cars and bikes for 40 years any LR still have my undying gratitude for stamina and longevity. I currently run a 1996 Discovery and I will drive it to the day I die . Not too soon I hope!
Pissed off Brits everywhere LOL.
jarupongch I have been scrolling through the comment section I'm and I haven't found a single one :/
Nah we realise the old ones are shit, we've all got 2004 onwards models which are superb
Fat Twat Fare You haven’t scrolled enough
Defender people absolutely care what you think. That's why it has to look cool. For that price and all you things you don't get, they have to "claim" not to care. Because it's part of the "looking cool" aspect.
Jeep people don't really care that you have a defender. It's cool but I don't think it's cooler than a Jeep. It's just a rare vehicle in the US, and that is the only it has going for it.
Jonathan Bridges some jeeps are shit though
I laugh at slow overpriced Jeeps struggling along at 10mph over 'rough' terrain as a blaze by them in my Pinzgauer 710K at 3x their speed. Defender? I never see those off road... too spendy.
He's personally responsible for increasing the value of this rust buckets , brand new its a quarter of the value , appreciation doesn't work like that
Overpriced, glorified headache= Landrover
"80 bucks and a crackrock" !!! hahahahahaha
There is one olive green 110 in my town and I swear to god if I mounted green tube on the roof I would fool someone to think that it is a tank. That thing is a beast! I want it so much :(
lamebubblesflysohigh i have a metallic blue one in central oregon and it is minty.... Absolutely a beautiful machine.
I'm embarrassed about some of the comments on here by folks from the UK...I live in the UK and have a Defender and personally found the video funny...my Defender is slow, isn't particularly comfortable and doesn't have AC...but I will never sell it and it puts a smile on my face every time I drive it. I'm glad it does the same for you. If you've got a pic of yours it would be great to see it. I have a 2001 Defender 110 double cab (which I doubt you ever had in the US). It was a special edition built for the Tomb Raider movie and there are now only 60 or so of them left.
DC Defender it's a crossover between a tractor and a car (seriously that was the original design) so it's not meant to be fast or comfortable.
You might get some folks to think it is an anti-tank missile carrier, perhaps.
@@anthonykaiser974 do you mean a bit like one of these? goo.gl/images/BK3VSE Not an anti-tank missile carrier per se but an anti tank gun (howitzer?). Doesnt that count?
There's not much that hasn't been strapped, bolted, welded or fabricobbled onto Defenders over the years and it can cope with just about anything you throw on it.
I still see SOO many old land rovers on the road still.. from the 70's, 80's and 90's
This is funny! Makes me proud and happy to be a Defender owner!
Can't Wait When You Do the 2020 Defender 90 and 110 ASAP.
Does it come with bumper-to-bumper warranty?
if the bumpers fall off, is there still a warranty?
*snaps* Made ya think!
Mr. BrewThatStew. Great name.
+theoneanton Good point. No bumper? No warranty, you reckless maniac.
Aidan Sweeney Oh you... :)
Hi there. I'm from Australia and owned my 1985 County 110 for 21 years. Its never let me down in any serious way. Over the years I've been adding the odd upgrades as its like playing with mechano. First years of ownership I upgraded the radiator, altinator and installed a engine oil cooler to cope with high temperatures. Then installed dif locks, long travel suspension and heavy drive members/axels. Recently I got a fairey overdrive and that's going in soon. Installed a hot water shower heat exchanger with pump. Its one of the most fun 4x4 cars to drive. She's got the 3.5 v8 in it with LPG installed. Without it would be too expensive to run every day.
Our neighbor owned 3 at one time. Stayed in the shop & very expensive to maintain.
Ha, I'm looking at buying one this summer, trying to get together a budget of around $10,000. That's right, I live in England.
+Alfred Munkenbeck get a td5 fucking brilliant things
Greg Pitts Either that or a series 3 from the 70s, classic or modern, but I wouldn't go near the mid 90s one in the video, totally the wrong era of Land Rover for me.
+Alfred Munkenbeck Yeah, but we have Wranglers.
+Alfred Munkenbeck we've had a series two and a series 3 and they didnt realy compare to the td5 the 2.25 engines are gutless and barely move it allthough the series are worth alot more and are more iconic id rather stick to my td5
Greg Pitts I know what you mean, I've driven both, but I've got something else for proper driving, the Land Rover would just be for a bit of fun. If that weren't the case though, some of the late Defenders are properly useable things day to day, I'd get one of them easily.
$80 AND a crack rock? I'm not giving up my crack rock.
laughing my fucking ass offf!!!!!
The best utility vehicle in the world! 💪🏻😎
One reversing light is not uncommon. Why would you need more?
To give you a better view in the dark while reversing. Why would you need 2 headlights?
Ill trade a chicken for it.
in england, theyre mainly used by farmers and those who live in villages and rural areas. without shiny paint, nice interiors and good off-roading, theyre a versatile machine. Of course, they hold their value too so a stone hitting it or a brush from a bush wont require it going into a garage from an insurance jobby. On roads, cities, towns, america, their price doesnt do it justice. In england; cornwall, devon, theyre loved.
Isn't that the car you always see getting trashed by a Rhino or Humped by Giraffes on Safari's?
The real question should be "Why are Americans so stupid to pay $70.000 for a 20 year old defender" and the answer is because its like owning a unicorn in the states.Btw the basic design is over 60 years old,So basically Doug is judging a 60 year old design on modern standards and calling it shit.
The McDonalds Corporation will not be pleased.... The wristwatches in the Happy Meals are well known to run fine for a year or two.....
The sneer when he says 180 bhp. If only the car culture in the US wasn't predicated on only liking cars with engines that have power outputs similar to a power station, or the fuel economy of a bus, then maybe the air quality might be better, or the drain on resources not as high.
This is one dumb vehicle, in Kenya they're scattered all over the country after the government dumped them in 2003. But the thing can go through a horrific accident and come out unscathed, though we can't say the same about its passagers.