The Rover Thing
This was posted on several boards including Range Rover Owners and OKRovers.
When we tell others, "It's a Rover thing, you wouldn't understand." this quote
from Car and Driver Magazine describes the "Rover Thing" best.
"A Land Rover is at once a delightful runabout and a rolling torture
chamber. It combines the best and worst features of a truck with the
insouciance
of an MG-TC. It is a car that every man feels compelled to
buy at one time or another, but hardly anybody has a use for. It is best
suited to off-the-road cross-country adventure. Conversely it is not
specifically useful for shopping trips, or general family-household use,
but that's what people do with it. This is one of several instances
where perfectly reasonable people have seemed to take leave of their
senses on first meeting the Land Rover. It is less of a car than a state
of mind. Its owners are the most partisan group imaginable and its
would-be owners are legion."
-- Car and Driver, September 1964.
-- Car and Driver, September 1964.