G-Class is crap as an offroader, it doesnt have the capabilities that the older Land Rover products had and suffers from high wear and tear off road.. and it's eye wateringly expensive.
.. and also as an on roader. it used the same engine as the E class, however through the gearing, motorway use tortures the engine by overloading. Well known engine issues. From GWagonOwners Assoc.
Buying Advice - Part 1 | G-Wagen Owners' Association
In getting back to one of the questions responded with:
Both.
They are neither simple nor elegant. if you want to have an offroad capable vehicle, it needs to be able to be worked on outside of a main dealer garage and not need recovering. On the side of a hill, in a forest, in the outback, in the african scrub.
Access to mechanics and systems needs to be available, without a body lift or a main dealer diagnostic system.
Yes, these are luxury offroad cars, but the level of comfort and luxury should not impede the capabilities or limitations off road.
Complex computer systems that can only be accessed by main dealers or mechanic that can only attended to by a well equipped garage do impede the capabilities off road. You cant simply take an offroader somewhere it will be stranded and require a series landy to assist recovery.
It chokes the brand and its very 'essence'.
Manufacturing QC is another bug.. for a luxury vehicle, the quality of componenent are crap as is the manufacting process QC.
The result is the sum of the component parts. if the parts are garbage, the end result will be garbage. No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it's still a pig.
JLR have lost their way, to date, in following through on the very ethos of the brand and the product line itself.
In product development, you define your market and provide the attributes that the market requires. JLR have lost this, they have gone off half cocked at the market and provided the attributes from a separate market.
Luxury offroad market + bells, whistles and toys (bling) market = concoction
Drive computers are cool little toys for people to boast at but never take a vehicle offroad. Someone who does and is capable wants vehicle control, not 'drive by wire'
You can update a vechicle by changing the design and retaining its usability and make the engines and gearboxes more efficient and reliable but adding bells and whistles does nothing really but add toys that are prone to failure.
