Enjoyable read. Thx.
Mainly amazed at the stupidity of driving a high performance SUV with literally no support through a barren wilderness.
If you do that, drive an old school Land Rover Defender with the four cylinder diesel that can run in cooking oil and be fixed by anyone with a modicum of mechanical ability even if they never saw it before. I have one rubbing inthe Negev that is from the early 1980 that was left by either the Syrians or the Eqyptians as they ran away. Had bullet holes in the fuel tank. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything to it but put oil and fuel.
Range Rover: voted most likely to return home on the back of a tow truck.
“five times the cost of the tools needed to assemble the engine.”
Sometimes you need little instruments.
For eighty dollars they could have put it to sleep.
LOL! Why on earth would anyone go any further than around the block in a late model Land Rover/Range Rover!?! Some years ago, I inherited one. It had less than 40k miles on it and had never been off the pavement, and it was a mechanical disaster! I repaired everything that was wrong with it and forbid anyone to drive it until I sold it. And, the guy who bought it thought they were the greatest thing since toilet paper and couldn’t wait to hand me an envelope full of cash for it. And, believe me, I couldn’t wait to hand over the keys.
This is of subject, but how many people know that a loaded 10 year-old Honda Accord with 100k miles brings more money than a mid-range Mercedes Benz with 100k miles?
There are a number of repair shops that only repair Mercedes. There aren’t any that only repair Hondas. There is a reason.