Best shot in a while because of the implied story but please share the story. Maybe make a new thread giving a background on it. You know we are all gluttons for a Land Rover love fest sorta story even if we don't agree on wheels, tires, etc, etc.
I'm not sure it warrants a whole new thread, but the story goes like this.
I wrote off a BMW 525 from a deer hit this past summer, Took my insurance money and starting shopping around. Thought it might be time for an SUV as we have three dogs, a couple kayaks and bikes and sometimes tow a small trailer, recalled from my distant past how much I enjoyed my Series IIA, and looked into Rovers, and my dear wife found me a nice LR3. Love at first drive, and that's when the trouble started. She also took a shine to the LR3, her Audi Avant was givng her some comfort issues and there is an undefinable something about the Rover that makes a person want to drive it forever. After a few months of "borrowing" the Rover and the occasional sharp discussion after I forgot that Fridays were her Rover days we starting looking, at first for an LR4 but in the price range we were comfortable with the LR4's are the low end of the range. LR3's in that range are the best of the LR3's, and she found anther 08 HSE in Buckingham Blue over alpaca. Hers has 30K miles less than mine, otherwise they are really the same beasts.
We live in NOMI and found it in Knoxville, so we combined a vacation road trip with a run to pick up her Rover. Now we don't have to discuss who gets what vehicle in the morning....but we still have to figure out which one we are taking when we go out together. Absolutely a first world problem right there.