Wow, Top Gear in the 90's knew the difference between original portuguese music and some generic iberian spanish flamenco crap. Kind of amazed, to be honest.
As a child, I was driven around in Land Cruisers and Patrols in early 1990s. Many of them are still running today. Hardly any Land Rovers or Rangers were sold in Saudi Arabia and almost none early 90s are running today.
Those Omegas were actually pretty cushty and, with the 3.0 engine, rapid too. They became popular police patrol cars in the 90s and early 00s, before the switch to Volvo V70s. I liked them, especially the facelifted version, but Tiff was right, GM missed a trick by not doing any sporting versions like they did with the Carlton. A Lotus Omega 2 would have been awesome, especially a wagon varient!
I agree, people always go on about Landcruisers, but if you want an almost indestructible 4x4 you can't beat a Nissan Patrol. Toyota has a great advertising department while Nissan has a great engineering department.
Jeremy will go out of his way to try and convince his viewers that Land/Range Rovers are worthy competitors to the LandCruisers/Patrols but the rest of us know that because of reliability and build quality alone that they arent
I swear, English motoring journalists will defend Land Rover until they’re blue in the face. They’ll try every which direction to justify buying one over the competition because.. uh.. I really don’t know why anymore. As an American, I can hand-on-my heart say that Jeeps are cobbled together and can be kinda trash. Doesn’t mean there aren’t good models out there, but people buying a Jeep know they’re not buying it for reliability.
Spot on we had a disco it was a bag of crap, the hilux and patrol we had once we took the fat tyres off were like a series 1/2 but better by far. Those hilux aircons how good?
Those speed the old chap was talking about were well into cuckoo land territory. Speeds of 160mph , Paris Dakha rally speeds of over 200, or was he referring to kph?
