[Aussie Mike]

Funny this tread should pop up again. I just updated my tow car/daily driver. The Land Rover was getting a bit long in the tooth so figured I'd update it before the KMs go too high. I've had it for about 4 years.

I replaced it with a Mercedes ML320 CDI. A bit more road oriented than the Discovery but I'd only taken it off road twice in the 4 years I've owned it. The ML could probably cope OK with where I took anyway.

The ML 320 CDI looks like a good tow car on paper but so far I've only towed the 6x4 trailer. It makes way more torque and HP than the land rover and has a 3500KG tow rating. the 3.0L turbo diesel motor actually makes more torque than the 5.0L V8 in the ML500 so it should be good. 7 speed auto transmission is nice and smooth too and keeps the motor in the thick of it's torque. Leaves the Land Rover for dead at the lights.

It's much nicer on the road than the Land Rover and gets better fuel economy too. Quite surprising actually, it does about 9L/100 on the run to work every day. That's freeway/city mix.

Cheers