Land Rover Defender (on tour)
Running costs
34.2mpg (on test)
£162 fill-up £510 or 12% tax
Practicality
Boot (seats up/down)
696/1,759 litres
Performance
0-62mph/top speed
5.6 seconds/119mph
UNTIL recently I’d never owned a dog or driven a 4x4 – or even had any notion of getting married. But there I was, on honeymoon, driving around Europe in a Defender with my bride next to me and our dog Tito snoozing on the back seat.
The odyssey began, as is traditional, with a six-hour
