Used Car of the Day: 1991 Land Rover Defender 90

by Tim Healey

Published: April 8th, 2024

used car of the day 1991 land rover defender 90

Today we have a lovely right-hand drive 1991 Land Rover Defender 90.

Imported from the U.K. and registered in Vermont, this one is now located in New York state and has a 2.5-liter diesel and five-speed manual transmission.

I don't see a mileage in the ad -- but I do see the ask of $16,500.

If this sort of thing interests you, as it does me, click here to check it out.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Sobhuza Trooper on Apr 08, 2024

Time was I was moving to southern Africa, and I would have killed to have a shot to buy this.

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Theflyersfan on Apr 08, 2024

Tim...excellent pick. Guarantee that if it hasn't been scooped up yet, it will soon. Pure safari vehicle right here. Not sure how easy parts would be to get shipped over (given what an Australian friend has to go through each time he has to order a special part form Germany for his rare Benz, it verges on a time consuming, customs headache nightmare), but this would be worth it.

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- Lou_BC on Apr 09, 2024
  
  This vehicle as a non-essential toy would be fun to own. Even tinkering and wrenching would be fun.
  
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Arthur Dailey Really enjoy seeing these loyal survivors. The listing seems to prove the adage that the person who owns the car is more important than the make or model of the car when it comes to long term service/reliability.
ToolGuy If you could see how well my FFIE position is faring, you would understand how brilliant I am not.
28-Cars-Later "Our seller is asking $8,000." Wow, kinda reasonable but still a tad too high given risk. Btw for some reason the Z4 "M" is 11,750 with those miles, my brain initially crashed trying to reconcile below wholesale and upon reboot realized I wasn't looking at "M6"
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