I read a couple of car magazines, Automobile and Car & Driver, and I get rather tired of their constantly running articles about Corvettes and Porsches and grotesquely unaffordable vehicles lie the Veyron in every single issue. I would really like to see them run articles that explain the actual engineering of car engines and other automotive systems, and better, longer articles on the cars that most people (including their readers) actually drive.
I think the new Corvettes and Porsches are beautiful and wonderful and all that, but reading the same stuff in every issue has become boring.
They also do not deal much in their car tests with actual reliability. They tell you how tremendously great and comfortable Land Rovers are, but never say a word about the hideous and expensive problems of keeping these things running.
The Australians say something like, "if you want to go into the Outback in style, take a land Rover: if you want to return from the Outback, a Toyota Land Cruiser's your proper Ute."
As I recall, the original Land Cruiser was a gussied up version of a Studebaker, not much better at cruising the land than the cheaper Champion. I imagine that Toyota bought the rights to the name from Studebaker-Packard.
