Another place to try is Rover Cannibal (carcannibal.com).  Ryan can give you some excellent advice.

Like Scott, I just spent $2900 on a 90k service and new radiator and hoses on my LR Disco II. 

At least I do not have a car payment.  I would be a little more patient; I am sure you can find a G out there.

Going price for off-road intended Range Rover "classic" or first series Discovery here in the states is well under $5,000 US.  At that rate you can chew them up and spit them out at 3:1 vs. G-wagens.  You can also get into one for cheap and put another $5-10,000 into it and have one KILLER off roader for less than the G costs for a decent used one. Financially I have to admit that some of the LRs make a lot of sense.  Check out Land Rover Exchange (LRX) for lots of stuff for sale.  If you're serious about getting into Land Rovers, you'll find yourown way to the really GOOD forums eventually.  But those are not the place for "why should I buy a LR, or which LR should I buy" type of questions.  Steve's recommendations are good.  I've owned and regularly driven SIIA 109" diesel, V8 90" Defender, '98 Disco and '92 Rangie before my 460.  I wouldn't go back, for reasons that are only my own.  But that's not to say that LRs aren't good trucks.  I know a dozen of them that could send most G's home with their tails between their legs.

I think there is something to the articulation bit.  It's nice to keep some ground pressure on all tires as much as possible to improve stability and make weight transfer less scary.  But it has to be said that the first upgrade any LR owner who's serious about off roading makes, after bigger tires (and if you want more tahn 31" on a Rangie, you're cutting sheet metal) is to fit some form of locking differential to one end or the other or both.

If your uses are mainly to be off road, visit Bill Burke's "4wheeling america" web site.  A lot of his stuff is couched in a LR point of view and you can't go wrong spending some time with Bill no matter what you drive.  He should be getting back from his anual new years run in Utah....time to see if anyone has any pix yet....

-Dave G.

roughneck - 12/30/2006 10:24 PM

Oh yes, and the Hovercraft, tobbaco, the spitfire, television, telephone, the motorcycle, the Jaguar car, :)

Everybody knows that tobacco was first used by the American indians who lived in what is today known as the island of La Hispaniola, covering the territory of Haiti and the Dominican Republic -then part of the Spanish Crown- and brought for the first time to the old world by Christopher Columbus or Cristóbal Colón, an Italian who had been comissioned by Queen Isabel I of Spain to try a shorter way to the Indies. From Spain, the use of the once called Evil Weed use spred amongst the aristocracy of the European kingdoms.

Thanks to all this, and to the US Helms-Burton Act, which bans all trade between the USA and the Republic of Cuba, I can still freely enjoy -when my meagre economy allows it- smoking my favourite Cohiba Robustos which would otherwise and due to the competition of the American connosieur too expensive for me to acquire (I guess this makes me an outlaw under US statutes, so please don't tell anyone).

Unless that is Bill, the tobbaco that you were referring to is something different and unknown to me...