Why did you choose...?

i had owned a few toyotas but between being given a two door rangie and driving 110 in the army i have never looked back

upgraded........yes upgraded to the defender purely for a crossing of the simpson desert

I learnt to drive in a series Landrover in the '60's in the NT in a mining camp in what is now Kakadu. Have always thought of them highly for reliability.

Years later, my forst 4wd's were all Toyotas - company vehicles in the mining game. Was never overly impressed by them except for an 80 series wagon that I had for a while up in the Pilbara. That was replaced with a 100 series and that thing put me right off Toyota.

Bought an early Range Rover V8 for pulling a caravan - it turned out to be a poor choice as a tow vehicle, but was great in a lot of other ways.

Bought a Disco series 1 V8 a few years later and loved it, but in the end it was getting a bit long in the tooth and was going to need a few dollars spending on it if I wanted to get it back up into condition for regular trips between Kalgoorlie & Tassie pulling about a 1 tonne camper trailer. Also had Prado V6 work car at the time, and both were pretty heavy on fuel.

Traded that one in on the current Disco 2 TD5 and very happy with the choice. With bigger tyres, a great tow vehicle, comfortable, plenty of room and nothing beats it on fuel consumption.

When I can afford it - next will be a Disco 3 TDV6.

I wanted a Diesel Auto to tow a poptop caravan through central Oz to Darwin and back, and wanted live axles as well.
I was a Jeep fan, and the Grand Cherokee did not have a diesel that year, Patrols had a fantastic engine but terrible to drive and Toyota's were too expensive even with a substantial fleet discount through my wifes work (and too common)
Originally discounted the Discos on price, but found a New 2002 Disco on a lot late in the year the dealer wnated to move it, at a nice discount. Took one for a test drive and thought it was fantastic.
I like the square lines of the Defenders over the Disco, but it was going to be my wifes daily driver so discouted the Defender as a bit too agriculture for her - maybe next one. 145,000km later still love the Disco.

I wanted to move up to a 4WD to take the family to places only a 4WD can take you to.

The D3 was the only new yet to be released 4WD on the market and regardless of the stigma about LR quality the Internet was brimming with believable stories about this being a fantastic capable 4WD out of the box plus Ford's huge investment into the Solihull factory to increase quality.

So how could I resist that temptation.

Placed an order before ever seeing one in the metal let alone sit or drive one and have never looked back at the Jap stuff which keeps on being pumped out which is hardly revolutionary compared to the D3.

Chris

Firstly i was sick of been hassled by the cops for my street car:twisted:

Then i was introduced to the 4wding bug about 12 years ago.
Started going with mates who all had Nissan's and Yota's.
All they did was go on and on about the jap boxes so when it came time for me to purchase i needed to be different

I narrowed it down to a Sierra and a 1979 Range Rover but after a quick drive the Rangie was out of this world...I copped endless amounts of grief for my purchase until we started taking it out...There leaf sprung trucks with there 32"tyres(big back then) were no match for the rangie and i was hooked...

I owned a few rangies but from a young age i loved the shape of the Defender and it was my have to have Landy.
So 5 years ago i bit the bullet and it is the perfect truck for me(even if it is broken).

I wanted something with character... something a bit different from the average soccer mum's playdoh/x-trail
I wanted something I could maintain on the side of the road myself
I wanted something relatively bulletproof
I wanted something to go pretty much anywhere, anytime
I wanted something with a sense of adventure, even driving to the shops :)
I wanted something "masculine" rather than "metrosexual"

I got a county with 4BD1T

In years gone by my brother had an early RR Classic.

Dad had another one, plus Series III traytop, Disco 1 3.5, Disco 1 3.9, Disco 1 Tdi, RR p38 4.0, RR p38 4.6.

Then I started working in a Dealer and a Classic came up at the right price...

Bought my first 2A and exarmy GS in 89, had 24,000 miles and each one of them was hard, she gave nothing but trouble probably why the Army flicked them, for some unkown reason had another one which was a much better machine, had a 15 year break from Landies and am back into them now, all Series Ones, theres something about them I cant put a finger on, when I see dead ones they say take me home!, cant comment on other models of Landys because I just dont know them, but for me the Series will always be the essence of what a 4WD should be.

Started in Alice Springs, long time ago with an ex-army swb S1 in original trim. Next was a lwb S2 which I rebuilt form end to end.
Left Alice and 2 years later went up again. Looked at Nissan Patrol at the time and put an order in for one:o Then I saw a 2nd hand Range Rover, Recaro seats. under dash A/C, overdrive and the best of all a new "terrier" engine of 4.4 litre capacity. Thank heavens I did not get the Patrol ;)
In 1994 the company gave car allowance instead of lease cars. Had 300 Tdi, Td5 and now D3 TdV6(very complex truck):)

G'day All, I bought my first Land Rover way back in 1968/9 can't remember exactly, quite a few people thought I was Nutz:o maybe I was but I could go places they couldn't even think of:p, it was a big step from my Morris Cooper S Mk1 I can tell you, but I haven't been without one since, my old mate G.D. aka Judge Dredd he bought his first one in 1950 so he outranks me by a few weeks LOL cheers Dennis:wasntme:
PS and yes I bought it go shooting in.