SuperBuickGuy
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Best is right - 215 Buicks were installed in pretty much every Rover sent to America, by the Discovery 2 they were 4.0 (215 is 3.7 liters... for reference the 231 Buick motor is 3.8 liters), in 2002 they went to 4.2 liters. When Ford bought LR they didn't like installing what was a GM motor in their cars, so they developed a new motor. The 300 TDI was actually a pretty narrow window of years, like 94-97, LR went to the TD5, which was a clean-sheet redesign. The 300 tdi and 200 tdi are the same size, but the 200 tdi is a bit more, umm, primative and had less hp.... no diesel was never imported into the US. The 300s are here because of people like me - who want the fuel economy of the diesel and don't worry so much about how long it's going to take to get there.
94-97 all were Defenders - there isn't a lot of difference between them and the 90s (oh good grief if they saw those words on Expedition... there would be much name calling)
Which brings up an interesting issue with that Land Rover Defender (they look similar to the later D90s), it may have been an illegal import (no Defender satisfies the 25 year old rule, so they can't, yet, be imported).
There is a really nice Defender shop in the NW, DefenderNW, there is one crotchety old guy, he's in Portland... the old guy, he knows everything - but he's pretty crusty, if you get along with him, he's a "give you the shirt off his back for a fair price" type guy... if he doesn't... well... there's NWDefender - and he is a really, really nice guy.
if someone offered me a d90 in trade for my H3... I'd jump all over that, I like them a lot.
and another factoid - the Series Land Rovers (series I, II, III) were the ones you traditionally see in the old british war movies.... narrow headlights, with the fenders extending to the front past the lights. the next in the models were the numbered ones - 90, 100, 110, 130s - and those numbers all referred to the wheelbase of the vehicle. Underneath, they all look pretty much the same from the 40s when they were first built... and if you look under and FJ40, there are remarkable similarities, though the FJ40s went with leaf springs (probably to save money on production)....
94-97 all were Defenders - there isn't a lot of difference between them and the 90s (oh good grief if they saw those words on Expedition... there would be much name calling)
Which brings up an interesting issue with that Land Rover Defender (they look similar to the later D90s), it may have been an illegal import (no Defender satisfies the 25 year old rule, so they can't, yet, be imported).
There is a really nice Defender shop in the NW, DefenderNW, there is one crotchety old guy, he's in Portland... the old guy, he knows everything - but he's pretty crusty, if you get along with him, he's a "give you the shirt off his back for a fair price" type guy... if he doesn't... well... there's NWDefender - and he is a really, really nice guy.
if someone offered me a d90 in trade for my H3... I'd jump all over that, I like them a lot.
and another factoid - the Series Land Rovers (series I, II, III) were the ones you traditionally see in the old british war movies.... narrow headlights, with the fenders extending to the front past the lights. the next in the models were the numbered ones - 90, 100, 110, 130s - and those numbers all referred to the wheelbase of the vehicle. Underneath, they all look pretty much the same from the 40s when they were first built... and if you look under and FJ40, there are remarkable similarities, though the FJ40s went with leaf springs (probably to save money on production)....
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