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Land Rover sells three nameplates in the UAE, and they are three genuinely different cars rather than one car in three sizes: a compact family SUV, a seven-seat tourer, and the Defender. The Defender is the recent one — a 2020 revival — while the Discovery and Discovery Sport are older designs kept current by facelifts.
How much does a new Land Rover cost in the UAE?
Entry is AED 235,000 for the Discovery Sport, and the 2026 catalogue reaches AED 677,390 at the top of the Defender range. Engines run from 2 L to 5 L, a wider mechanical spread than 3 nameplates would suggest, because the Defender alone covers four-cylinder turbo to V8.
Which Land Rover models are sold in the UAE?
All three are SUVs, and they split cleanly by job. The Discovery Sport is the compact one, the cheapest way in and the easiest to live with in a city. The Discovery is the seven-seater, built around people and luggage. The Defender has real off-road hardware under the styling, and it is what most buyers come for.
Land Rover Defender or Toyota Land Cruiser?
The Defender is the more interesting car to own and the better one to drive on a road, with a cabin and a ride quality the Land Cruiser does not attempt. It also does the desert properly, which is the point of buying either. The Toyota is the one to have if the car must be repairable anywhere, cheap to keep and easy to sell — it wins on every practical measure except how it feels.
What does a Land Rover cost to run in the UAE?
More than a Japanese SUV of the same size, and that is worth budgeting for rather than hoping around. Al Tayer Motors in Dubai handles warranty work and parts, and the pool of independent workshops that really understand air suspension and this brand's electronics is thinner than for mainstream marques. Fuel is the small number on a Land Rover; specialist labour is the big one.
Is a used Land Rover the better buy?
Frequently, and the inspection data is why that can be said with a straight face. At a median of 118,000 km, 5% of the Land Rovers reaching CarSwitch for inspection in the UAE show an electrical or electronics fault, against the 12% we would expect for SUVs of the same age and mileage here. That is a segment-wide worry the brand handles better than its reputation implies, but it is settled car by car, which is what the report is for.
Decide which of the three bodies you actually need, then price it against the used Land Rovers listed now.
