the snobbery is ryder, the fact that its embarrasing the fact a freelander wears the same badge as the rest of the landrover range, its like the baby road version consisting of components that have only been desinged for a-b travel, under engineered parts, **** petrol engines that to answer you question about buying one with probs sorted is that the main down fall being the heads will need constant repair, once there gone then the problem will return at some point regardless of it being a proper job, along with replacing any other components that have been made to the same spec as the one that broke origionally so yet again it will have to be replaced. dont get me wrong am not saying the rest of the range dont break, we all have our fair share of problems, just that ours our upto the job landrover intented them to be when the company was in the early stages. in my opinion its a totally different car, its like when x type owners claim they drive a jaguar????