Are Land Rovers unreliable

Yup. My Td5 will do 120kmh in 5th gear up a steep hill pulling a fully laden double horse float.

Just an afterthought after doing two follow ups ..... what has towing a trailer at 120kph got to do with a question on reliability???

I tow often. Cattle, sheep, horses and other farm gear as well as the off-road trailer. I can't think of any time I would consider towing over the speed limit..... maybe up the Stuart Highway I could creep up to 110k, but if anything goes wrong, it goes REALLY wrong when towing.

Had a Disco TD5 for 6 weeks while our Freelander was being fixed - again. Top speed was 140kph, overtaking over 100kph was scary, great acceleration around town.

As for reliability of Landrovers, we are buying a Toyota when we get to Australia in Feb next year to live as we so not think that the Land Rover products are as reliable as we would like for outback driving - we are in the Auckanld Landrover owners Club and know a bit about the reliability?? of the LR vehicles.

The un-relaiblity is made worse by dealers who do not know what they are doing when you have a problem and also the amount of electronics that they have these days with Lucas (Prince of darkness) or similar wiring. A minor problem, eg in a friends TD5 with a blocked air intake turned out to be a major with turbo changed and the ECU was to be the next until the owner found the blocked air intake.

Not sure about other states, but in NSW it's illegal to tow at speeds in excess of 80km/h. It doesn't seem to be a well known or observed law, though.