Used Land Rover Cars for Sale from £5,500

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Used Land Rover cars overview

Land Rover is one of the most beloved brands on the market, and includes some of the most desirable cars you can buy. However, reliability is a significant weak point for many models, and you’re advised to buy with exceptional caution if you want to get a good one.

Popular used Land Rover models

Land Rover’s used model lineup runs from the family-friendly Discovery and Discovery Sport, to the hard-working Defender, and the luxurious Range Rover lineup.

Used Land Rover Range Rover Evoque

The car that, for not a lot of money, allows you to use the phrase ‘shall we take the Range Rover tonight?’ The Land Rover Range Rover Evoque is good-looking and practical, and far better off-road than you’d ever imagine, but the 2.0-litre engines are all worryingly unreliable. Plug-in hybrid model is ideal for urban commuters.

Used Land Rover Range Rover Sport

The smaller brother to the ‘full fat’ Range Rover has 95% of the big car’s luxury, but the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque is a slightly handier size and is considerably sharper in corners. Refined and incredibly comfy, the P440e plug-in hybrid is hugely capable in all conditions. Watch the reliability factor, though.

Used Land Rover Range Rover Velar

The mid-sized Range Rover, based on the same bits and pieces as a Jaguar F-Pace. Utterly gorgeous, but a bit cramped inside for a car with a Range Rover badge. Good to drive, and as ever hugely talented off-road, but beware engine and electronic issues. Plug-in hybrid model doesn’t have the impressive electric range of the bigger Range Rovers.

Used Land Rover Discovery Sport

Land Rover Discovery Sport used to be Land Rover’s best-selling model, and you can see why. It’s handsome, really good to drive, roomy, comes with optional seats for seven, and can handle anything the British weather chucks at it. As ever with Land Rover, reliability is brittle, and you can’t have the plug-in hybrid with seven seats.

Used Land Rover Defender 110

The big new Defender is everything a Land Rover should be; it’s designed to be driven across deserts and swamps, but is just as happy in the Sainsbury’s car park. Massive, so not the easiest thing in town, but huge and comfortable inside, and very stylish. Reliability is still an issue, and while the P400e plug-in hybrid is very economical, choosing it means giving up seven seats inside (although you can have it as a six-seater with a kid-sized middle ‘jump seat’ in the front).

FAQs

Is it worth buying an old Land Rover?

It depends — Land Rovers are characterful cars, usually handsome and good to drive, and inevitably unstoppable if you venture off the tarmac. However, old Land Rovers have reliability issues in abundance, everything from small electronic problems to total engine failure, so you have to buy very carefully indeed.

How many miles is too many for a used Land Rover?

Actually, a Land Rover with lots of miles is probably preferable to one with abnormally low mileage. Land Rovers tend to fall into that category of having ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cars. A good one will run faultlessly for years, and lots of miles. A bad one will be back at the dealer’s every other week. So a high-mileage Land Rover, with lots of nice stamps and receipts, is actually the better purchase.

Are used Land Rovers reliable?

No, not really. Although Land Rover finished in tenth place overall, out of 32 brands, in the Driver Power customer satisfaction survey — indicating that owners really love their cars — 40% of them reported faults, which is a very high figure indeed (the figure for Honda, by contrast, was just 13%…). So, no, they’re not reliable. But people seem to love them anyway.

Should I buy a used Land Rover?

Possibly, yes. The Driver Power customer survey indicates that people who own Land Rovers really love them, in spite of reliability issues, and if you actually need a car that can tackle unmade roads, wet fields, and muddy hillsides, then there’s really nothing better.