Bill, hat's off to you for keeping track on vehicle repairs and maintenance. I have never done that diligence.
LR4 ate about $8k this year in repairs - including the timing chain tensioners. In the past, I'd probably chalk about $2k a year, give or take. It is definitely more than my other trucks ever took, and far more than the D1 in its comparable ages and mileage. It has also spent more miles on the flatbed than the rest of my fleet, combined.
Blueboy -
The 95 Classics - one I bought in 2001, it looks gorgeous but original 4.2 has always ran like shit. It is much happier with a 4.0/3.9 hybrid. The other I bought around 2007, and it's been the most trouble-free cars ever. Runs beautifully, and I just plopped $4k on a decent paint job. The other two (only one I own now) were high mileage "rescues" - from the descendants of wealthy original owners who let them down. Both in a bad shape cosmetically, and came in different states of delayed/deferred breakdowns. The Grenadier purchase led to selling one of them (which just became a beautiful daily driver) to a friend.
Nothing, not a single thing, related to a G-wagen "cost less money." You just rarely hear of the problems since the original owners tend to dealer-service them and ditch them at the first sign of a looming large expense. The second owners tend to be of a drug-dealing whiskey tango variety, leading to more profound problems. Unless you owned one for 200k miles since new, or own a shop servicing these on a regular basis, you don't know the true cost of ownership.
This is not to say anything good or bad about a Grenadier - with about 800 miles on the clock since new, I can't say much. Time will tell. If it proves to be as trouble-free as my old D1, it's already a win.
By the way, if anyone needs convincing of
not buying a Grenadier, there's a Discoweb-like forum -
https://www.theineosforum.com/ . Plenty of early production bugs in Euro and UK vehicles, a lot less in U.S. (2024 MY) trucks.