Faults:

Lots, but with maintenance it can be avoided.

Stereo speakers quit after the RR mechanics fixed the dash gauges...

Which quit because they got "back there to fix the electric door mirror. Which says more about the mechanics than the design.

I have friends who have the suspension issues, but I did not.

General Comments:

My previous Land Rovers were a 1953 Series 1 and a 1971 Safari LWB Series II when I lived in England. I do not know why I expected the same reliability (as in, "easily fixed) from a RR, but I did. Stupidity on my part it seems.

I also noticed how several here have stated that "if you get the Volvo, life will be good again". Well if you go to the Volvo XC page for this year, they are *all* complaining about them.

Maybe I am just hearing the squeaky wheels here, hoping for more oil.

It IS overcomplicated, but the market demands gizmos. A stripped 2-door RR would not leave the showroom.

I drove my old Land Rovers in truly appalling conditions over snow/ice/mud, and I am confident the RR would have handled it too, even though I would have been carting around several hundred pounds of unnecessary options supplied solely to attract the Chelsea Tractor crowd and keep their attention. The difference being in the Series II Land Rover, I wore a navy issue Avon dry-suit and was driving over frozen Thames Estuary water sat in a plastic seat with no carpets. I could "seat 12" Hmmmm.... and I towed things way too heavy, but it did it. Had we had this forum, the image crowd would be complaining about the leather seals on the front axles, or if a Series 1, how you sat *ON* the petrol tank and removed the seat base to fill it. It is too easy to complain now and be heard.

The RR is really a victim of its own marketing, with more and more cup holders being demanded with each new model.

You either like 'em because you use them, or complain, because you should have bought a Lexus LX470 to create the image. You sadly, cannot have both.