Keith Tanner wrote: I'll let you take that conversation up with the NHTSA :) I don't know how it's specified exactly, but there's paperwork in place to allow a 110 of that general age to come in without the assistance of a spare VIN tag from a rusty Series. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a VIN range specified. The 1997 D90 paperwork does give a production date cutoff (Sept 1 1997) and a VIN range. The 1993 D110 paperwork isn't available online. If you think the model year thing is odd, you should try to figure out the plate system in the UK from afar
But it made total sense when I lived there. The plate system really is better here, especially vanity plates for $15 so you don't end up paying litteraly millions for somethign that sort of looks like what you think you want to say.
Keith Tanner wrote: All my off-roading has always been the slow, plugging along type. The sort that Series Land Rovers like - horsepowering your way out of a difficult spot is not an option with them. No four-wheel rooster tails. As an added bonus, also fewer broken partsSo the diesels do well there. All Land Rover owners like to pretend they're on expedition as well, so the improved fuel economy is a bonus.
Funny story on fuel econ. When I was first here I figured that my 351 Econoline conversion van used about the same COST of gas to drive from Michigan to Florida as it cost to drive the V8 Land Rover from my parents house (Yorkshire) to my house (Worthing on the South cost) a whopping trip of 240 miles. The crappy gas mileage of about 12-14 British MPG (call it 10/11 US mpg) and the much much higher cost meant it was a similar fuel bill to my 14 US mpg Econolodge (call it 17 British MPG) and basically free American gas, or it was in 94-97
