I stand by that comment. When I Compare a Land Rover to some of the decent cars I've had, 350z, focus RS mk2 (still got), golf gtd, Saab, Audi,race car, or loads of other fast cars I've driven, mental subaru's, mental evo's, lambo's, new RS, other fast fords and loads of m cars, fast audi's, Porsches etc etc and Land Rover steering is very vague and frankly abysmal on tarmac.
I've driven land rovers all my life, always will and in some conditions I reckon they are the best vehicle you can have. That's why I have one because I do things with it and go places that a pickup wouldn't even look at. but they are all the same on the road, we've had about 7 I think, most from new, driven loads of mates ones - never driven one of the really late ones mind), bit of free play around dead centre, no steering feel, big awkward steering wheel, low geared steering, move about a bit on chunky tall rubber, wallow about a bit on corners, brakes are crap. Some people just don't like driving them. Compared to your average modern car a defender's road handling is terrible. I've had staff who moaned about driving even new ones, most of my mates have owned them at some point but have almost all moved onto modern pickups or 4x4's because land rovers are among other things pretty crap on the road. They are a truly exceptional off road vehicle but if you are going to be doing a chunk more road miles and not so much off road they are way behind the modern competition.
So Land Rover, great off road vehicle, great workhorse, great towing vehicle, but unfortunately not so great on the road because of various things including, comparatively vague, numb steering. A quality that I don't mind because as I said I don't own it to zip about on the road and if it had tight as steering like my RS or some other cars it would be terrible off road. I own it to go places on the farm a pickup wouldn't even look at, if I'm doing a regular road journey I use another car. To my mind a Land Rover is designed for a specific purpose that it does very, very well but you can't pretend it is perfect in all regards or take offence when someone says it isn't.