Thread: What is with the Landrover hatred?

Can you still buy 'Official Toyota Recovery Vehicle' stickers anywhere?

And I had this 'expert' talking to me after my Cape York trip of 2012...

Another 'expert' offering his opinions.

Originally Posted by olbod

I prefer to get in first, if I see a bloke sitting in a Toyota or other jap 4x4 in the shopping centre carpark, I stick me head in the window and say : betcha sorry now you didn't buy a Landrover, eh.
Shock treatment.

I wave to Jeeps.

So that's how your face got like that!

Haters gonna hate. Simple as that.

The way I see other 4wds

XX% Bogan yobs who heard from a mates mums cousins brothers former room-mate that LRs were ****. Bag them like nothing else while chucking VB cans and empty Winnie blue packets at their sister in primitive mating rituals.

XX% not bogan yobs, who has a close friend who had a shocker of an experience. Give them a ribbing, don't trust LR, but generally aren't bad people

X% Land Rover and Jeep owners, copping **** left, right, and centre from people who don't know, and are too stupid to consider otherwise. Two sides of the same coin really.

Just smile, wave, and have a giggle when you pass them on the tracks

Originally Posted by sam_d

And I had this 'expert' talking to me after my Cape York trip of 2012...

In 2005 I did 14,000k in one hit including the Sandover, Gibb, Cape Leveque, Gunbarrel, Simmo, Walkers Crossing.
The Isa was my 1st "You'll never make it" run in with non-Land Rovians & it continued throughout the entire trip. A mechanic in Katherine swore that I'd never finish the Gibb & then went on to say how much money he was making out of the Nissan grenade. I even had a bloke in a blinged Patrol camping near Innamincka infer I was lying. The only issue I had was a slow puncture from a piece of metal at the old Hatches Creek mine.
Wifey & I have done the High Country since, still on the same shocks (Bilsteins).
The '97 D1 is now at 330,000k & never needed anything more than servicing & expected wear & tear maintenance.
We love it!!
And yes, I do have a '93 'Cruiser ute as well which I like a lot too
Steve

I too have copped heaps of Landy abuse over the years.

Most recently I was in WA In a little outback town discussing new 4wds with a mates dad. When I said that I owned a D2 he said "one of those unreliable pieces of crap" and "two of those blew up in Canarvon" I knew I was in trouble. When I said that in 7 years of ownership nothing major had ever gone wrong with my D2 and that it started every single time I've turned the key shut him up a bit.

He went on to say that he still owns a 6 cylinder 79 series because he doesn't trust the new Toyota V8s. And according to him, no other manufacturer makes a decent 4wd ute that can carry his tonne of tools in the back

Met a guy in birdsville who told me how crap land rovers were and that I'd chosen the wrong vehicle for my round Australia trip. I caught up with him later after the trip and admitted that my rear diff seal had gone but in 45000 kms that was it. He said he'd just spent 12 grand on replacing the motor and gearbox in his 'reliable' Toyota 80 series halfway through a 10000 km journey.

So horses for courses. My D2 is still more comfortable than my folks 200 series. And for the price they paid I can have 10 second hand discos! Don't you love depreciation! Their vehicle has lost more $ since they bought it than mine cost new!

Unfortunately, magazines like 4 x 4 Action still perpetuate some of these myths when they write about LRs, presumably because the writers don't know what they're talking about and just recycle the same lazy stuff, so it keeps going around.
For example, a couple of years ago a 4 x 4 Action article repeated the myth that the Snowy Mountains scheme was built by Toyotas. I emailed them that the first LR arrived about 8 years before the first Toyota, that a couple of thousand LRs worked on the scheme, that the hard work was all done before the first Toyota arrived, and that the first Toyotas there didn't even have a low range. Never got a reply.
Just because its repeated doesn't make it true.

QLD must get a different 4wd action than here in NSW because the ones I read are mostly positive of Land Rovers; or are you just perpetuating the myth that 4wd Action stories are anti Land Rover because you heard from someone who read somewhere on some forum that someone once read an article in a 4wd magazine that may or may not have been 4wd Action that was anti Land Rover, or are you still seething that they didn't reply to your Snowy Mountains missive.

They still pander too much to the yobbo 4wd crowd but they are not anti Land Rover.

It is a notion I see repeated on this forum time and time again.

To quote your last sentence 'Just because its repeated doesn't make it true'.