Land Rover Series III

Like everyone else who has ever owned one of these, I find it a daily disappointment not to go and play the lottery of "what will fail today" when I go to work. Let's look at the whole thing rationally - Is it a comfortable ride? ................No Is it reliable?..................................Not really Is it quiet?......................................No Is it refined?...................................Not as such Is it economical?.............................No Is it going to impress anyone?.......Only another Land over owner BUT Is it fun?.........................................OH ...  Read the complete review

I sold it - and wept. Five years later, not a day passes without I think about buying another. I even have a photo of it on my website, alongside my children. So why did it have to go? Too noisy? Certainly not. The noise of one of these things going by is unmistakable, especially if the traditional Avon Rangers are the chosen tyres. But if you think that’s noisy you just try getting in one, and see how you like that noise. Chose the soft-top option, and you also have the pleasure of wind and the clatter of bits of canvas and rigging beating you around the head. But that’s Ok, we’ll forgive it. You can take the roof off and the door-tops off ...  Read the complete review

'This has to be the most stressful way of getting from a to b that has ever been invented' I said when I drove my first series III Landrover. Having said that, I always have been a bit of a masochist... After about half an hours driving I was loving it. The brakes are terrible, the steering is heavy and has loads of slop in it, the cart sprung suspension meeans you feel every bump in the road but for some reason this just keeps me coming back for more. Ultimately any old landrover is a hopelessly impractical way of travelling unless you're off road (where, perversely, it is pretty much the best way to travel) but driving pleasure is missing the point - Series ...  Read the complete review