Final Payment!

[Flyfisher]

I've also heard stories about Landcruisers being the vehicles of choice when the going gets seriously tough and reliability is essential. They are also corroborated by a couple of Australian acquaintances who wouldn't risk a Land Rover in the outback. But there's no denying that Land Rover wins the 'iconic' award, which is quite a feat of marketing really and it really does seem to translate into £££s when it comes to residual values.

I had a 1995 Discovery for 10 years and they can now be picked up for around £1500 whereas a Defender of the same age (and with the same respected 300Tdi engine) seems to be around £6000 - so these 'period classics' can be an expensive hobby! One day, maybe.

 

[worms]

I think we've been down this Land Rover versus Land Cruiser debate before... It's a love or hate thing. Personally, I never had a Land Rover fail to get me home from a remote bush trip, even when it's been pretty sick. The Toyota aficionados would of course say the Cruiser wouldn't have been sick in the first place!

But no, I wouldn't pay £61k for one...but very tempted to spend a small fraction of that to get my old L reg 200tdi 110 County back on the road.

 

[a twig]

Pft, all this talk of modern Land Rovers with heretical coil springs, now a proper 1972 leaf-sprung Series III 109 on the other hand (oooh, just like the one on my drive), now you're talking... :twisted: :twisted:

*throws cat firmly in among pigeons and runs off*

 

[MatthewC]

My limited experience of Africa (mostly Uganda) is that Landcruisers are very common while classic Land Rovers just are not seen there at all (except possibly owned by some die hard UK agency or the British High Commission). Mitsubishi Shogun/Pajeros were fairly common and I borrowed a Toyota RAV4 once in Rwanda!

I had to get the brake pads on the Pajero changed once and, lacking any stands, the lad put an old engine block under the back while it was jacked it up. Sounds good, but he put it under the fuel tank so in fact it would have just caused more damage if the jack had collapsed.