Talking to an engineer called Norman at Primary Fasteners (see rivnut thread) today. He is a LR nut and owns a Disco 2.
It turns out that most of the company's employees own Disco 2s, even the lowly production line staff. They are a major supplier to Land Rover, and when the facelift Disco was being launched in 2002, LR found they had a lot of pre-facelift Discos they couldn't shift. They had loaded a lot of them with extras, but as the new model was in the pipeline (and the usual - read wealthy - customers were prepared to wait and pay for the new model) they couldn't get rid of them. They invited some of their suppliers to buy them at a knockdown price just to clear the decks for the new model. Hence a small engineering firm in the West Midlands has a workforce driving around in Solihull's best. He wouldn't tell me how much he paid, but he was chuckling all the time so I guess it was (relatively) peanuts.
Why am I ALWAYS in the wrong job?