I was just thinking (dangerous I know, but I couldn't help, it) but I got my first powered wheels in 1959 - a Victoria Moped.
Then a 500cc Triumph motorbike, a Ford Popular, a Citroen Light 15, a Mini-Van, then a 1071 cc Mini Cooper S, several 1275 Cooper Ss, Austin Maxi, Lotus 11 with a Climax engine, a variety of competition cars, Saab99, Volvo 244, Landrover Safari 2.6, various vans, A Ford capri (bloody drives the wrong end!) a Saab900, then a 900 Turbo Aero (wow ... and still got it in a shed) and some Saab 9000s, and a Renault van (I gave that the total works driving on biodiesel and could NOT break it) and the Def 90 and my TD5, and probably lots more I forgot about, and not a single one of them ever blew a head gasket. I mean, what would they? They were designed to last a while.
So how come with all this alleged so-called progress 50 years later, Freelanders with blown head gaskets are sprayed all over the countryside?
CharlesY