Datatek
Well-Known Member
Having just 'upgraded' from P38 to L322, I couldn't disagree more with the title of this thread!
My P38 is 18 years old. There is no rust on it anywhere. I have driven it about 18,000 miles in just under 2 years and it has been great.
The car was very advanced for its time in 1995, and here we are getting on for two decades later moaning about the odd electrical fault. Yet the vast majority of the car's electrics on the vast majority of cars still work fine even after all this time.
OK it could have been fitted with coils and have a proven, basic car electrical system like the Japanese competition, but it wouldn't have performed anything like as well. Go for a spin in a Land Cruiser or Mitsi of a similar vintage and you will realise how crude they are in comparison.
So L/R took some chances with a much more complicated car than the competition, which performed superbly but suffered from reliability issues. Most of these can be resolved fairly easily and hence there are loads of them still on the road.
The L322 is a big step forwards in making the RR more like a luxury car but it does not feel like it will last as long. And somehow the P38 feels more like a 'proper' 4x4.
I won't be all that suprised if my soon-to-be-ex P38 is still going strong in 10 years time, I will be suprised if the L322 is...........
I think it may well be the BEST car L/R ever made... the most durable, very capable off road, very capable on road.
Cheers,
Jerry
Sums it up quite well.:clap2: