True, thoughtless of me and probably not strictly correct but it did have a 4.2 litre lump dragging it along - truth is it did everything without an inch of style and was only bought because of a lack of backbone (I set out to buy a 110 and my wife test drove the 100 series and wallah).

Hi gents Don't you like that ghetto talk? Don't you all have low profiles and twenty inch chrome rims? Just joking - I know that's offensive talk... Anyway, seriously, what are the keys to making a defender a more reliable offroader? I have done a whole lot of offroading, lots of it...

I'm from Sydney's northern beaches... but have a long standing obsession with land rovers, I also have a long-standing fear of break downs in the middle of nowhere hence my need to buy a new-ish one.

Thanks - didn't even think about that - I've got a decent snatch strap, so assume that the points should be updgarded?

Hi - finally got agreement from my wife that our next car could be a Defender... planning my trip out to the dealer to pick up a new or nearly new 110 (we are in Sydney not Solihull!). I've previously had a diesel 100 series Land Cruiser which I took 26,000 k's around Aus, no break downs and...