My first and only Landrover, a Series II in Kenya, made me a mechanic and a lifelong convert to Landcruisers. They never stop and I forgot all the mechanicking I had learned.

Want to drive 200 miles into the bush? Buy a Landrover. Want to get home again? Buy a Landcruiser.

But I did have a used MGB right in college, and it was remarkably reliable, even the electrics. First my girlfriend crashed it, then my sister.