Defender.

That has nothing to do with anything. I've bought more than one bad battery from land rover dealers. The premium they charge you has nothing to do with quality, testing or service.

Just gessing here but have you checked voltage? just check the battery isn't a little weak because that could be the source of your problem (seen it in my borther's 2003 RR a week ago)

There's also the point of the 100 inch chassis (distance between axles). defender comes as 90 or 110 or 130 even but the Range rover classic has a 100 inch chassis... For some reason it seems super important to some and I've seen people build a 100 inch defender (range rover classic chassis and defender body slightly…

I'll second that, my brother bought a v8 when it came back for his business in France (drive 5 laps in a supercar on a track for this much) and the car was in the shop every two or three weeks : Gearbox issues, Engine management failure, Front axle knocking badly, Warped disc brakes and so on... And the car never even…

Having driven on an Ice track in the alps, and performed lots of parking lot snow drifting before, its not the same thing... On the track, you get to go all in (puffy snow doesn't damage the car) and you have a path to follow and you can compare and improve your laps and your drifts.

Spent a week end with a 2014 SC AB and I dare you to go 0 to 250kph, Did it once on the french highway and its an incredible experience in something this size...

I own an R57 MCSC automatic and I adore it, it may seem wrong in a mini but it is great as an owner... Except for burn outs where the manual might be better, I don't see any loss... And the paddles allow me to play. I owned an R52 MCSC in manual and I'm not sure I was having more fun then.

Having driven the Current (new) cooper S with the auto gearbox, its a very very good gearbox...

What always amuses me is this cult of the french car you have in the US, kind of "I only want what I can't have" when in fact if you had them, you wouldn't care for them (maybe with a few exceptions) because most are boring, not very well made and not very good to drive...

There is, its called coyote and they had to change the way they inform you, now they give you a 2 mile warning about a "danger zone" that spans over the radar.

TRANSLATION OF CHANE'S WORDS :

I know what you feel, I still have and occasionnaly drive my first car, a 1973 convertible super beetle.

"Look its the discovery sport"

I regularly drive a 1973 Super beetle convertible... Not crazy but I've never but chains on the tires and often take it to go sking. It drifts but is incredibly good on snow.

I've rented many of those in greece and spain, most were the convertible model but that is no longer in production (which I regret deeply) but it is a great and fun car. Simple, rugged and great off road, it does what it says it does very well.

Those don't look like kadrons but more like IDF or DRLA... quality is too poor to differentiate (at least for me).

The greatest mini(s) of all time is always the one(s) is (are) always the one(s) you owned.

Just FYI, wagons do not dominate europe, that's for small cars and the local version of minivans (lookup renault scenic ou citroen picasso).

I feel like this is getting ridiculous. The odds of an owner borrowing all of his friend's CDs to copy them in the car (and only in the car) are slim to none.