Hi guys I'm new to this forum although I have been a member of the D3 forum for some time. My name is Lex and I'm a dentist from Qld Australia. [Don't hold this against me]. I have had three enjoyable years with my D3 but now the lease is expiring and I don't know what to do. I am semi-convinced that I want a TDV8 either Sport or Vogue but I may just keep the D3. We enjoy a lot of remote travel and the availibilty of rear tyre carriers/bullbars etc make the D3 easy to set up for long distance travel. Are there any former D3 owners here who have made the transition without regret. Any comments/sugestions would be greatly apreciated.

Lex, we started with a D3 then got a TDv6 RRS then got a TDv8 RRS. Personally I thought the D3 was, overall, a better car than the TDv6 RRS as the D3 simply did more than the RRS in most things and what the RRS did well it didn't do that much better than the D3. But the TDv8 is in a different class all together. It puts the Sport in RRS and does that soooo much better than the D3. The TDv8 is now definitely our favourite of the 2. RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
Disco 4 TDv6 HSE Ipanema
Defender 90, 200tdi CSW

Thanks for the feedback Sparticus much apreciated

I mean smarticus sorry!

If you don't need the load capacity of the D3, then the TDv8 RRS is the one to have. The difference between the TDv6 and TDv8 is like chalk and cheese, and, in my experience, with no penalty at the fuel pumps but a whole load more fun! The TDv8 FFRR is also very nice but less sporty than the RRS - it still rolls a bit even though the 2008.5MY cars here have trick DR suspension like the TDv8RRS has 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Oh go one.... Buy a second hand Supercharged RRS.

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But make sure it has the towbar and electrics installed, for the fuel tanker you will need to pull around after you  

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But make sure it has the towbar and electrics installed, for the fuel tanker you will need to pull around after you

Ahh. the old ones are the best ones.....
My SC is loving that cheap unleaded.... Not like dirty expensive diesel...  2022 P440e AB

Saw a garage yesterday where there was 10p between diesel and u/l!  

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Mental. And LPG losing congestion charge status....
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