ROWING UP ON A FARM IN North Yorkshire, I got used to mud. Mud, along with oily puddles, old fence posts, barbed wire and baler twine, stacks of bald tyres, blue plastic fertilizer bags, a tractor that hadn’t started in a decade, and a filthy farm dog that slept in the shed. Basically, all the stuff “Countryfile” doesn’t show you on Sunday-night telly.
It’s in this environment that a tatty old Land Rover 110 looks perfectly at home, covered in cow muck, the grey fabric interior turned a pale pastel beige by the caked dirt. Farmyards were the birthplace of the modern 4x4. But then, like amphibians crawling out of the primordial sludge, off-roaders left behind the muddy farms and evolved to live on the school run, becoming SUVs, crossovers,…
