The thing that interests me is the huge price different, is the genuine one really worth the extra £26k ?

The triumph of marketing!

The triumph of an acclaimed prestige badge.

The thing that interests me is the huge price different, is the genuine one really worth the extra £26k ?

Probably. The LandWind may be a death trap. Previous ones have fared badly in these tests.

That is true but, we won't know for certain unless it is crash tested. It's quite interesting how we think about cars and safety now, compared to how we drove potentially unsafe cars like the original Mini.

If you rode motorbikes as long as I did then you might tend to become a bit less sensitive to crash tests.

After all once you've travelled down the M1 on a bike with HGV's etc, actually having a warm snug window between you and the rest of the world feels pretty safe to me. Even if it is a 'trap of fiery death'. All things are relative I suppose.

I last 'crash tested' a Pan European St1100 and it hurt a lot.

Spotted a couple of Great Wall pick ups round our way. If the trades people are using them it will be a pretty decent test of the their ruggedness. In the local paper the Pick Ups (if you like that sort of thing) looked remarkably good value to me at IIRC about £15K.

Rangers I believe are a few quid more and only have a 60K warranty as opposed to the GW' 125K warranty. They may be a bit wafty..I don't know but the manufacturer is standing tall behind the product and thats a lesson Frud need to take on board.

I'm old enough to remember how many years ago, we laughed at those funny little Japanese tin boxes....ain't laughing so much now are we.