Australian outback "adventure"

Reading the June edition of "Octane" magazine (mainly cars) they did a "1,000 mile odyssey through the middle of nowhere" in Australia and went on about how they got "stuck" using phrases like "this is not good"
Thing is they were in a big convoy of brand new Mercedes G-Wagons with plenty of backup and literally truckloads of kit.
The idea was to prove the off-road worth of the G-Wagon....and half of them broke within 30 miles of getting on the rough stuff, they had to airlift spares in.

And the boutique ("swamped with wood and leather") G-Wagons were £80,000 each. For that price they could have bought 3 Defenders for each one, and would probably have made it across the outback without the vehicles falling apart.

ermmmmm ok

If they weren't using G-wagons they would just be using Landcruisers... Australians don't like Defenders

A lot more Ozzies like defenders since they have been able to get them , lot of banter between the opposing camps JMHE

They've been able to get them for ages. When I lived in Alice Springs (and that was only two or three years ago) there were maybe two other Land Rovers in the whole town, barring the tourists who drove through in their discos. Only one garage was willing to service my Defender, because every other person thought Land rovers were too oily and leaky to bother working on. But then again Alice Springs isn't really representative of the whole of Australia haha

when i arrived in OZ end of 89 WestAus landrover club only had 2 other 110 s , they had even had to relax landrover owning requirement to keep the numbers It was much healthier a decade later , lots had gone from hiluxs to Disco and defender