United Kingdom marque
Land Rover in the UK
Land Rover has been built at Solihull since the first Series I in 1948 and is now part of Jaguar Land Rover under Tata. Britain is its home market and its largest used market, with the Discovery Sport and Range Rover Evoque providing most of the volume. Air suspension, timing chains on the early 2.0 petrol engines and electrical faults are the recurring cost items, and they are expensive enough that a cheap purchase price can be misleading.
There is no reliability figure for Land Rover as a marque that this site could cite. What circulates instead is survey data from panels that select themselves, warranty claim rates published by companies with a product to sell, and averages built by choosing which years and variants to count.
Each of those choices moves the answer by several percentage points, and none of them is a measurement a reader could go and check. A number printed beside the Land Rover badge here would be our arithmetic wearing somebody else's name.
What is genuinely knowable is one car at a time: its own invoices, its own service record and what the common repairs on that model actually cost when they arrive.
No fault ordering is published for this marque
Model by model
Every Land Rover line we hold a record for
| Model | Years sold in the UK | Body styles | Fuel types | Fuel options |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defender | 1983 to 2016 as the original, then again since 2020 | SUV, Pickup | Diesel, Petrol, Plug-in hybrid | 3 |
| Discovery | since 1989 | SUV | Diesel, Petrol | 2 |
| Discovery Sport | since 2014 | SUV | Diesel, Petrol, Plug-in hybrid | 3 |
| Range Rover | since 1970 | SUV | Diesel, Petrol, Plug-in hybrid | 3 |
| Range Rover Sport | since 2005 | SUV | Diesel, Petrol, Plug-in hybrid | 3 |
| Range Rover Evoque | since 2011 | SUV, Convertible | Diesel, Petrol, Plug-in hybrid | 3 |
| Freelander | 1997 to 2014 | SUV | Diesel, Petrol | 2 |
Before you buy one
What the Land Rover record does and does not settle
There are 7 Land Rover model lines here and the oldest of them went on sale in Britain in 1970. Of those, 6 are still sold new and 1 has finished. A finished line is not automatically a worse buy, but it fixes the newest example you will ever find and it decides how long the parts supply has had to run.
Between them those models have been sold here with 3 different fuel types: diesel, petrol and plug-in hybrid. That spread is the practical reason one figure for the whole marque would be no use to anybody standing on a forecourt. The alternative fuel discount that used to shave a little off hybrids ended on the same date, so hybrid badging no longer changes the bill. Diesels carry a particulate filter, and a car used only for short cold journeys will keep blocking it until the driving pattern changes.
Those lines were bodied 3 ways: SUV, pickup and convertible. Pickup versions are taxed as light goods vehicles too, which is why an identical looking pair can carry different rates. On the convertibles, look at the roof drainage channels: blocked ones put rainwater into the footwell instead of out through the sill. The four wheel drive versions carry more driveline than the two wheel drive ones, and driveshaft boots and propshaft joints are all inspected.
Because the oldest line here reaches back to 1970, examples across this marque fall under all three road tax regimes: engine size for anything first registered before 1 March 2001, CO2 bands from then until 31 March 2017, and the flat standard rate for anything registered on or after 1 April 2017. That is why the tax figure on each model page names the year and the engine it applies to, and why it is safer to read the V5C than to take a rate from a badge.
What goes wrong on a Land Rover is decided by the individual car and the person who owned it last, not by the marque. Two examples of the same model and year, one serviced on time and one not, are in completely different condition, which is the honest reason a marque average would mislead you even if somebody published one. The invoices for the car in front of you name what was actually replaced, when, and at what mileage. Read those instead.