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Originally Posted by cmccuist
I lived on St Croix for awhile and loved it there. St Croix is the "big" island and has rain forest and desert. St Thomas is the populated island that gets most of the tourism and St John is the expensive one where a half acre lot is $1 MM!
The roads are pretty good there and the max speed limit is 55 - which is the road from Christiansted to Fredricksted. All the other roads are slow going. I had a pickup truck (company car), but like Noah said, we also got around ok with a Suzuki.
I liked the pickup for putting my dive gear in and general moving stuff about the island. As far as airport runs, the airport in St Croix is only 15 miles from any point on the island.
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We're in the process of buying a house on a half acre lot on St. Thomas. Max speed on that island is 35! We'll probably spend most of our time on St. Thomas, with occasional jaunts over to St. John. Both islands have lots of steep twisty roads & tight parking spaces, hence my desire for a short wheelbase.
FWIW, here's the house;
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Originally Posted by Seahawk
I owned a 1994 Defender 90 with a rare (for that year) aluminum hardtop for three years.
Interesting vehicle: Most of the "big stuff" is done right, it is the little items of interest that get frustrating. There are any number of forums (and I would pm HHI944 as well) that can give you the skinny. Also, for off road, the old ones do not have a locking rear diff. My 1999 Tacoma Trd smoked my D90 off road.
That said, I will probably own another one.
To your needs, however, the D90 is not the right car...the rear seat/stowage area is a joke and very cramped, and difficult to access. D90 are not passenger cars. I took the rear seat out. A D90 will not seat seven and luggage.
A Hilux with a hard cover over the bed makes much better sense, or the MB.
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Seems as though the weak point of the NAS Defenders is the anemic 4.0 engine, whereas I would fit a newer Turbo Diesel unit. What are the other 'little items'? Rear seat area in the UK models is better, as seen here (seats fold up out of the way);
