I have currently a 2010 dual cab 110 ute as a forestry work car. We have done 70k so far in it although I did order a lc70 ute in november last year to replace it. The order got lost in government red tape and I am still waiting and ringing weekly for it.
My thought as an independent driver of heaps of 4x4s is buy a Toyota.
The landrover is a crude bit of pommy rubbish. The mechanical engineering is okay but the cabin was designed by idiots and built by apprentice cabinet makers. The novelty wears of as you rip clothes on sharp objects or the door catches, hit your head, elbows and knees on sharp bits of cabin and can't find cabin controls in the dark. It is so noisy that it may as well not have a radio(it only picks up random stations anyway and is terrible to figure out) and don't leave anything that moisture will damage on the floor.
On the upside, the constant 4x4 is good, the motor perky and the door seals let the same water that leaked in out just as easy. It is unstoppable of road ( as good if not better than any 4x4 I have ever driven and I drive lots of 4x4s.
Safety gear is non existent.
If I had a choice,( which I don't really, I just drive what ever the government buys me) I would get the new LC 70 dual cab.
