Best Tow car for 3.5 Tonne Boat

I can say from personal experience the best tow car is the Jeep Grand Cherokee... its 3.0l merc v6 is a lot torqueyer that the Disco. I have used one (in low ratio) to pull a 6 ton boat with trailer up a slip and it handled it superbly.
 
Yes, I have the Disco 2 commercial, but it only has 2 seats, the Defender has 7. I am only going to use this car mainly to tow the boat. So think the defender will be as comfortable at 60 as the Discovery.
 
I'd try and borrow one from LR then and try it towing the boat. From past experience of lugging mini diggers round the north west with TDi Defenders I'd not want to spend a long time doing it again, they're very uncomfortable, even if you would only be doing it irregularly.

I run an old yr 2000 Range Rover 4.6 now to tow my boat (which is about 2300kgs all up). We borrowed a friends Disco3 to lug it back from Kent to Cardiff and looked to buy one myself after the effortless way it performed but the horrific depreciation put me off. The Rangey ended up costing me next to bugger all in comparison. If you really want a Defender though I'd go for one pre 2001, they seem to hold their value very well from that age onwards, £10-12k gets a good one that wont depreciate much (given that you'll only use it sparingly).
 
This is the new 08 model with 6 speed 2.4 Transit engine. I want to the launch at Eastor Castle and it is much imporved over the preious model. As you say the Discovery lose money but the defender will still be worth £12k in 7 years, am looking at just over £21k (+vat) for it new today hence depreciation will be very low.
 
We used to tow a Sealine 240 down to the Med every year with a Pajero (Shogun) 2.8 Diesel. It pulled (and stopped) very well and the gearing was very good for pulling and cruising with that kind of weight. I remember looking up the legal limits and stuff at the time and we were ok.
Pajeros (grey imports) are cheap as chips and very reliable.
 
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This is the new 08 model with 6 speed 2.4 Transit engine. I want to the launch at Eastor Castle and it is much imporved over the preious model.

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Yep, realised that, hence saying you'd be better off trying one out. We have them at work and I still find the interior space to be pretty poor and uncomfortable over long distances. They're OKish as long as you don't need elbow room !! Granted though, they are better than the old ones and the off road ability is still stunning (which is what we use them for a fair bit).

btw, not having a pop or anything, I guess I just find it odd that you'd swap a comfy Disco3 for a new Defender /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I towed a 3.5ton Invader 240 4 berth sports boat +all the kit to sicily in 2 days ,60-70 all the way and Used an Isuzu trooper LWB. Excellant tow car.
 
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