I've had my Range Rover Vogue since I bought it new in 2005 and now done 250000 miles. Beautiful walnut dash and centre, all leather interior and quad pipes. Engine bay sparkling courtesy of Autoglym and a hose down.

Still immaculate as I've always looked after it and it's had a rough life on many rough and rocky tracks throughout my career as a professional mountaineer.

Only big repairs were a suspension airbag and a new gearbox last year. New auto/ manual box with high/ low gear ranges. Cost was £2000 but the village Land Rover garage paid half as I've always gone there for repairs and servicing. Can't beat that!

Of course you need to put decent snow and mud tyres on it which many people fail to do just expecting their new 4x4 to perform marvelously with just ordinary tyres on them.

Average MPG around here is 22 and motorway 28.

In winter here in High Peak every winter I pass stuck and sliding 4x4's on the hills in the snow and I think people buy them thinking they're going to be fantastic but fail to put decent tyres on them. Mine eats up the hills in snow and ice ... raise the air suspension, into manual and low range gearbox and away we go!

I can highly recommend the Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac tyres. MPG loss minimal as is road noise. Just had my second lot at £520 online including fitting, disposal, balancing and valves. Also studable though that's illegal here, so they say!