Big heavy components and long stroke means very high friction from the high piston speed required and heavy components that don’t want to change direction.

Yes but they are such a blunt instrument and an expensive blunt instrument at that. The modern Land Rover is a wonderful thing to drive by comparison. But there’s always that lack of actual support by LR Oz...and that is why they fail.

Land Rover and Land Rover Australia are going to have to be a hell of a lot more convincing that both their cars and their support network are fit for purpose before I would spend any coin on any modern Land Rover.

Tragically, the today’s fifth-gen Discovery has been stripped of such distinctiveness.

Toyota. Not even close.

Can it though?

Neutral: Are You Holding Out For The Return Of Diesel?

Because they’re forward looking designs.

HEY MORGAN!

I’m reimagining your scenario as the “I’m sorry” from Shaun of the Dead.

No, typically you use a carrot and a donkey.

Hmm. I am sure that Rolls Royce Meteor engines for tanks helped win WW2 I am not so sure about the early development work on gas turbines. The first Land Rover was built on a jeep chassis in 1947 intended as a tool for farmers.

Seriously, someone dumps that kind of money into the truck and only keeps it for 500 more miles

I’m gonna assume they started painting the car because they were planning on driving it for a while, but they filled it with diesel instead of gas so the engine took a shit and left them stranded.

I hope whoever stole it gets colon cancer and dies shitting blood while his family laughs.

Picked up this 1967 Jaguar 420 from a garage nextdoor to my grandmas in Brooklyn NY. When I was a kid there she was rumored to be in there, but it never saw light from 1979 to 2017. Only 57k, I’m the second owner.

The problem with UK drivers is that, no matter how well you’ve prepared your car, you’ll get stuck behind some dickhead on bald summer tyres.

Down in the south UK it hasn’t been this bad since about 2010. It’s about a 7 to 10 year event. And it normally lasts about 2 days, though this is going to go to maybe 4 days. The biggest problem is jackknifed or simply stuck big rigs. If one of them blocks a road that’s it for hours. Winter tyres are helpful in light…

Some English colleagues and I drove south from Paris one night in steady snow years ago. The going started to get a bit dicey so the decision was made to turn the wheel over to the guy from Manitoba. They then slept and I did 80 mph in the snow for the remaining 150 miles (the Autoroutes were virtually deserted). I…