RED-DOT wrote:

I recently done a 600 mile round trip in my 90 around the scottish islands and i couldn't have picked a worse car to do it in.. the defender follows ruts in the road and handles like a duvet with a spacehopper on each corner. On several occasions the steering wheel was almost torn from my grasp and i nearly ended up as part of the scenery. Anyone in a sports car could beat a defender on a B or A road, no problem.
I once had a tiff on my Honda CBR with a 911 on a private stretch of the A9 and i went past him at over 140mph and as i looked at him as i went past he was tapping his fingers on the wheel to his favourite CD and enjoying his cigar, i was getting buffeted about and had to concentrate like a perjurer. It is not how fast it goes but how it goes fast??

Speaking as a bike rider , 911 and Defender owner they all have their own idosyncracies! TBH on narrow country roads Im happiest in my Defender  Pimped black '07 Puma
Equally Pimped Black Pick up Truck

Rollin deep

K9F wrote:

Oh! Think I ran over a snail too!

That's terrible - they're great for slip-streaming!

 One that started out as a 2.4 TDCi 110 XS
+ New Defender 110 First Edition

RED-DOT wrote:

I recently done a 600 mile round trip in my 90 around the scottish islands and i couldn't have picked a worse car to do it in.. the defender follows ruts in the road and handles like a duvet with a spacehopper on each corner. On several occasions the steering wheel was almost torn from my grasp and i nearly ended up as part of the scenery. Anyone in a sports car could beat a defender on a B or A road, no problem.
I once had a tiff on my Honda CBR with a 911 on a private stretch of the A9 and i went past him at over 140mph and as i looked at him as i went past he was tapping his fingers on the wheel to his favourite CD and enjoying his cigar, i was getting buffeted about and had to concentrate like a perjurer. It is not how fast it goes but how it goes fast??

Over the last 20 years me and Mrs Froogle have visited the far-flung Scottish Highlands in many different vehicles. Without doubt the best vehicle we have ever used is the 90 TD5 that we had a few years ago. Not only was it great fun but the vehicle let us get to places that no one else could get to. The highlight has to be when we waded into a Loch near Lochinver with water up to the rock sliders and sat there and had a picnic and a flask of tea for over an hour. (Mrs Froogle still talks about that today) Why did we drive into the Loch??........ Because we could !!!
IMHO a defender is the ideal car for touring

I have missed the defender so much that I am chopping the RRS in right now and have a Puma 110 on order.