re: thoughts on the Land Rover ?

I recently got rid of my sport and got a Volvo. The Range Rover Sport, isn't really a range rover anyway so you can't really compare the sport to the Range Rover. Mine was a good car, it never had a single issue and I put 90k miles on it in three years. Most of those miles were pulling my boat. Our camp truck is my old Discovery, which was a pile of shite in every way except mechanically. The engine, transmission, axles, were bomb proof.

The LR3 (if it's still around) with the 3.2 is a good truck. It's the same chassis as the 03-13 xc90 and a couple of Ford SUV's. Rock. Solid. Except for the ones that like to puke their rear pinion bearings but that's something you can fix for cheap.

At least go drive the Volvo xc90. That fricker will seat 7 adults. It's not the most manly thing in the world but if you tint the windows nobody will see you anyway. The seats are like driving around on a pillow made of baby angels.

I had an Audi Q7 TDI as a loaner about a month ago, that thing is damn near perfect in every way. If you can look past the whole VAGCOM thing it's a fantastic car. It would behoove you go test drive one. Since you like to lease, they have very good lease incentives.