Land Rover versus Land Cruiser Debate

If anyone interested in considering 'which vehicle' - have just posted some useful correspondance from Drive to Oz - From Croydon to Cairns - team (2 adults, 3 children) currently in Laos using Toyota Land Cruiser team and ourselves - using Land Rover Defender to our website diary (blog) at Overland With Kids | » Welcome to Our Adventure!.

Cassie said:

If anyone interested in considering 'which vehicle' - have just posted some useful correspondance from Drive to Oz - From Croydon to Cairns - team (2 adults, 3 children) currently in Laos using Toyota Land Cruiser team and ourselves - using Land Rover Defender to our website diary (blog) at Overland With Kids | » Welcome to Our Adventure!.

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to be honest cassie slitty is all very well but were a landie website

DD - Your're right about the slittie but you'll see we defended the defender in our response - which we hope we'll never live to regret! Even Graham at Drive-to-Oz admits a bit of a secret aching passion for LR.

They're in Laos... and you're where?

Console yourself that you will need about 1/3rd less fuel to go the same distance fast towing with a diesel landcruiser ( it was a fire/rescue RTA unit) in OZ , worked out after refueling 12 mpg I kid you not . My V8 gets better than that towing (and faster) .
A friend of mine did tag a longs on the Canning , his 110tdi was the only vehicle (others were l/c and patrols) with the range to get to the extraction point with a med emergency and back to the route. The L/C is also very costly to service to Toyota schedule , service intervals 6000kms . They have some good points , but for what you intend you chose the best bang for the buck. JMHOFE

overland in Loas would be awesome

G