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.
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.