I'm not saying they can't tackle rough stuff - I'm saying that they will break eventually from being bashed, unlike something with low range that can just crawl over, and particulerly down stuff. A Forester with a bit of a lift and some bigger...

A freelander won't hack it offroad. Sure, it'll do the greenlane, but because it hasn't got low range, the momentum that you'd carry to get over stuff means eventually you'll bash it into something, and so sooner or later you'll break it. A D2...

I can't afford to keep both, nor do I really have the space. So did I, but 14mpg was just completely unsustainable, and a diesel is just so slow, at least the handful of them that I drove were. Our old one was a high spec version with air...