Passing someone in a parking lot a few years back, I was asked: "Is that one of those Toyota Land Rovers?"
Indeed.
Most I meet still believe Range Rover is a manufacturer, and Land Rover is either a Jeep or Toyota product, or a company that went out of business a long time ago.
People in my own family call my DII a Jeep. Get far enough out in the boondocks and even the Brits do, for some reason; and they know better. That's more on my end of the spectrum, though. A car is there to facilitate the completion of a job. You work with what you have, and it doesn't matter what it is.
That tends to make someone a hell of a lot more picky when they genuinely have their own choice of what to drive. You've lived with every manner of automotive irritation under the sun making quick decisions based on a pool of compromises, and now you're spoiled for choice. You can have anything...
...anything except the car you've imagined on every damned trip you've ever taken; and you want to wring the neck of every manufacturer for not seeing how obvious it all is.
That's why I want to see a hell of a lot more collaboration in the automotive world. They're all good at different things, and great stuff happens when they acknowledge that. Well, aside from the new Supra, anyway. That makes this Defender look like the genuine resurrection of an icon.
Cheers,
Kennith