Gil

Just my preference, you see I grew up with Nissans, Datsuns as they were called when my Dad got his first one. He used to run his own motor mech workshop and the Nissans were always the work horses, we used everything from 1400 bakkies right up to the Kingcab/double cab bakkies and never had any problems or break downs.

They are as reliable as Toyotas and in my opinion are also better looking vehicles and for the original poster who only wants it for 3 months, there is probably more choice and better value too. It all comes down to personal choice at the end of the day, the thing that grates my carrot is people that have done overland trips etc(have the T-shirt) and think that they know everything about vehicles because of one (or a few) trips in a certain vehicle and then go about imposing their opinions on other folk.

The other thing that I don't think is right is when someone comes onto this site looking for vehicle advice and that person is bombarded (generally) with posts which are openly and unashamedly biased to Toyotas and this is reflected in most of the relevant posts in the 4x4 section, this is after all a neutral forum? This is ALWAYS going to be a heated debate/discussion.

My views on LR? These cars and there after market parts are easily available and easily tinkered with, and lets be honest, some people have no business tinkering with vehicles, I mean that in a good way. This is probably why there are more failures, because most LR's have been thrashed to within an inch of there lives in every conceivable way then sold on to some poor bloke with a dream of overlanding and what does he buy? Problems, he buys problems and when things go pair shaped he then hops on to a forum like this and states that LR's are the worst vehicle ever built etc etc.

Peter