300 tdi production numbers

worldofinflation

Active member
Has anyone marked out the production curve on 300tdi LHD and ROW vehicles from 1994 to 2007?
i.e. what do U.S. eligible imports look like in 5, 10, 15 years for 110 Station Wagons. How many LHD 300 TDI's were made post-1999 when the TD5 came online? I know a South African fellow that managed to import a brand new (2007) 300tdi engine from Brazil (to SA) about 5 years ago to install in his 90. Any of those new ones still floating about? Perhaps these are questions for that fellow from LRWorkshop.
 

rocky

NAS-ROW Addict
LR production figures may or may not be accurate due to vehicles that were CKD'd plus of course not 100% of the production was 300 Tdi.
NAS Rovers being an example.
Military LR were often 200tdi to satisfy contractual requirements.
Total production as I've found so far 1995 27,600, 1996 31,724, 1997 36,169
 

mitherial

Well-known member
Picking up this old thread, from my understanding, the introduction of the 200TDI and 300TDI in '90 or '91 was a game-changer in terms of global sales numbers for the 90/110/Defender in that LR finally had a diesel engine that could keep up with modern traffic. This is definitely consistent with how many trucks we are seeing on the US import market now, versus a few years ago.

The James Taylor (not the famous one) Land Rover books have exact production numbers--he just released an updated version last year which covers up through the end of production in 2016--I have ordered this, but have not received it yet. From Taylor's telling, the CKBD kit production numbers were not really large relative to Solihul in the Defender era, with the partial exception of South Africa (this was different back in the Series II and III era).
 
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