the land/range rovers are for the british military. same as the hummer is for the us military. they are not commuters. I can think of a few places I would consider owning one, and one would be east africa where they never see pavement at all and they are a dime a dozen over there, along with the old land cruiser (how the hell did that become a luxury car). there are very few people I could think of that could possibly need fulltime 4wd. that said, it's obviously peoples' choice here to buy what they want, but it won't stop them from looking silly. a 70's defender is about a billion times cooler than the land yacht stuff mentioned above too. but who wants to pay that much for gas to commute on I-5 95% of the time in full 4 wheeling mode?