Thanks for all the good input.
I was looking at the P38 for my mom. Currently, she is driving an RX300 (Lexus). She bought it new in 2000, and it hasn't had any problems at all! It never went in for warranty work, and it hasn't been in the shop since it's warranty expired, except for fluid changes and routine maintenance. She was really looking at it to humor me. Since I bought my Disco I have been facinated with LR. And, I'd like to have another in the family. She was willing to buy the one we looked at it (by the way the P38 we looked at was in real nice condition). However, she has three criteria for a car: it must be comfortable (not a problem I thought - the P38 is definitely comfortable when compared to other SUVs), it has to be safe (no problem there), and it has to be reliable (oh crap). She entrusted me with measuring it against those three criteria. As cool as it was, most likely it's not going to go the distance the RX300 will without a lot more repairs. Needless to say we didn't make an offer on the P38.
She can't afford a new Range Rover so I really have my fingers crossed for the LR3. I'm hoping Ford will do with LR what they did with Jag (bring stronger QC policies). Then I can justifiably recommend an LR3 to my mom. That would be sweet! I think that thing is going to be awesome! And, I think it's going to have a better track record for reliability. I know I'm a minority on this board in that respect. We'll see if I'm right.