For a quick ‘get-me-through-the-winter’ car, this one stuck around for a long time… nearly nine years. 266k miles, of which 50k or so was mine – and it genuinely only left me stranded once when the transfer case chain gave up in the middle of the St Johns Bridge junction just after rush hour. Turns out it’s quite difficult to push a Range Rover.
After the final clear-out, this one has now ended up in Houston. I’m not entirely sure how this happened, but hopefully it’s as good to its new owner as it was to me. Over the years, I’ve had 12 Range Rovers and this was the best – for example, that 4.2 v8 is absolutely indestructible and is far more forgiving than the 3.9/4.0 and the head-gasket-explodey 4.6 that we don’t talk about.