Abercrombieboy said:
Thats my land rover. Why ever strive to make a mechanically and electrically sound car. Making sure your $45,000 - $90,000 vehicles can survive the harshest conditions on earth, spending hundreds of millions of dollars inventing testing your car in the sahara & Antarctica and developing ridiculous and useless technologies such as "terrain response" is very important to your everyday consumers in that about 99.7% of them will never take their car off road (maybe some 3rd or 4th owner 15 years from now will- but by that time the entire electrical system of the car will be fried and nothing will work. And no one can fix it because you're company will be out of business because a. No one wants an unreliable car, b. gas prices will be too high and when you get 14mpg in the car on the highway, no one will be able to afford it, and c. parts will cost even more than they already do).
You test the car to make sure it is capable off road, but did you ever test and develop the car so it would actually work without a f***ing door lock, window, air suspension part, sensor, or electrical motor breaking every week. Jesus, you need to manage your money a little better.
<end random outburst rant directed to Land Rover>
I can support the reliability rating of this car. I love our discovery, but it is a piece of crap when it comes to reliability. They are very cool cars, very interesting driving position, and somewhat rare. That said, I want my mom to get an LR3.
